Cast: Fay Compton

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Suzanne Cloutier · Micheál MacLiammóir · Robert Coote

Synopsis The story of a man driven mad by the power of his self-contained emotion. A Shakespearean classic. Orson Welles' production began in 1948 but with money in short supply the production took a further four years to complete. An original...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick

Synopsis Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go...

Direction David Miller

Cast Joan Crawford · Rossano Brazzi · Heather Sears · Lee Patterson

Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Franco Interlenghi · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Eduardo Ciannelli · Evi Maltagliatim

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Julie Harris · Claire Bloom · Richard Johnson · Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity. With him are the skeptical young Luke, who stands to inherit the house, the...

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Dana Andrews · Maureen O'Hara · Sybil Thorndike · Fay Compton

Synopsis A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Charles Coburn · John Mills · Barbara Bates · Derek Farr

Synopsis When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the...

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Alastair Sim · Fay Compton · Guy Middleton · George Cole

Synopsis Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Jessie Matthews · Edmund Gwenn · Fay Compton · Esmond Knight

Synopsis Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write...

Direction Christopher Miles

Cast Joanna Shimkus · Franco Nero · Honor Blackman · Mark Burns

Synopsis Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst...

Direction Roy Kellino

Cast James Mason · June Havoc · Stephen Dunne · Fay Compton

Synopsis In a London nursing home, Jean Wilson, a happily-married American woman, while in a state of self-consciousness, hears Jimmy Del Palma, angrily berate the hospital management for the out-dated treatment used on his wife, who dies a bit later. When...

Direction Ewald André Dupont

Cast Fay Compton · Frank Harvey · Ian Hunter · Edmund Willard

Synopsis William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when...

Direction Joan Craft

Cast John Carson · Kara Wilson · William Moore · Christopher Sandford

Synopsis The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Mai Zetterling · Fay Compton · Robert Flemyng

Synopsis Mrs. Christopher, a kindly volunteer worker at a large hospital, does a favor for a patient by delivering a sum of money to Mr. Sine. When she discovers he is a blackmailer, she threatens to expose him, and a struggle...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Richard Attenborough · Alastair Sim · Fay Compton · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on...

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Robertson Hare · Alfred Drayton · George Sanders · Berton Churchill

Synopsis American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.

Direction Ian Dalrymple · Peter Proud

Cast Kathleen Ryan · Dirk Bogarde · Cyril Cusack · Ivor Barnard

Synopsis Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a...

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Ivor Novello · Fay Compton · Muriel Aked · Esme Church

Synopsis A demure Manchester schoolmistress falls in love while holidaying in the Austrian Tyrol.

Direction David Greene

Cast Jenny Agutter · Bryan Marshall · Clare Sutcliffe · Simon Ward

Synopsis A 14-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality, discovers that her adored older brother may be guilty of a series of bizarre sex crimes.

Direction Stuart Burge

Cast Michael Redgrave · Max Adrian · Lewis Casson · Rosemary Harris