Cast: Dorothy Alison
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Dorothy Alison. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Mandy
1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Phyllis Calvert · Jack Hawkins · Terence Morgan · Mandy Miller
Plot A poignant drama about a young deaf girl and the strains her condition puts on her family. Mandy was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life....
7.1
320 votes
7.1
320 votes
Reach for the Sky
1956 · Movie · 135 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kenneth More · Muriel Pavlow · Lyndon Brook · Lee Patterson
Plot The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World...
6.5
58 votes
6.5
58 votes
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
1971 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Ralph Bates · Martine Beswick · Gerald Sim · Lewis Fiander
Plot In a clever, gender-bending twist on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale, the research done by Dr. Henry Jekyll (Ralph Bates) in the field of artificially-induced human longevity involves experimentation...
6.3
552 votes
6.3
552 votes
Blind Terror (See No Evil)
1971 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Fleischer
Cast Mia Farrow · Dorothy Alison · Robin Bailey · Diane Grayson
Plot After being blinded, young woman goes to live in English countryside with relatives. Out on a date with boyfriend she escapes the fate of the other relatives, who are murdered...
6.2
901 votes
6.2
901 votes
Interpol
1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Victor Mature · Anita Ekberg · Trevor Howard · Bonar Colleano
Plot U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis trails international dope smuggler Frank McNally by following his reluctant accomplice, Gina Broger, through the "pickup alleys" of New York, London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and...
5.2
62 votes
5.2
62 votes
The Long Arm (The Third Key)
1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend
Cast Jack Hawkins · John Stratton · Dorothy Alison · Michael Brooke
Plot A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar...
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Pretty Polly
1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Guy Green
Cast Hayley Mills · Trevor Howard · Shashi Kapoor · Brenda De Banzie
Plot Miss Poly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in India her Aunt's demise leaves her alone to persue her freedom...
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lionel Jeffries
Cast Laurence Naismith · Lynne Frederick · Garry Miller · Rosalyn Landor
Plot A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The...
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A Town Like Alice (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Movie · 301 min. · Australia
Direction David Stevens
Cast Helen Morse · Bryan Brown · Gordon Jackson · Dorothy Alison
Plot Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.
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The Rugged O'Riordans
1950 · Movie · 107 min. · Australia
Direction Charles Chauvel
Cast Michael Pate · Ken Wayne · Tommy Burns · John Unicomb
Plot The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country. In addition to being beset with the obstacles and difficulties with...
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Two Living, One Dead
1961 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Virginia McKenna · Bill Travers · Patrick McGoohan · Alf Kjellin
Plot Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and...
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The Man Upstairs
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Chaffey
Cast Richard Attenborough · Bernard Lee · Donald Houston · Dorothy Alison
Plot Peter Watson is troubled with pain and and an inability to sleep. He tries to light the gas-fire and seeks held from another lodger, artist Nicholas, who is spending the...
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Life in Emergency Ward 10
1959 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Day
Cast Christopher Witty · Rupert Davies · Dorothy Alison · Joan Sims
Plot A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America, joins a small county hospital, and has to win over his colleagues, including the senior house...
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The Scamp
1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wolf Rilla
Cast Richard Attenborough · Dorothy Alison · Colin Petersen · Terence Morgan
Plot Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Eustace and Hilda (TV) (TV Miniseries)
1977 · Series · min. · United Kingdom
Direction Desmond Davis
Cast Dorothy Alison · Gerry Cowper · Susan Fleetwood · Anne Kristen
Plot TV-Miniserie. 3 episodes. Set in 1907, Part 1, The Shrimp and the Anemone, is a study of two youngsters whose fortunes change after their meeting with the formidable old invalid,...
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The Silken Affair
1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Kellino
Cast David Niven · Geneviève Page · Ronald Squire · Beatrice Straight
Plot Roger Tweakham, a married accountant leading a hum-drum life gets involved with a motivating model, 'tweaks' the books of a stocking-factory whose owner he likes so it will show a...
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Turn the Key Softly
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Lee
Cast Yvonne Mitchell · Terence Morgan · Joan Collins · Kathleen Harrison
Plot After three women are released from prison, we follow them for their first day of freedom.
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Rikky and Pete
1988 · Movie · 101 min. · Australia
Direction Nadia Tass
Cast Stephen Kearney · Nina Landis · Tetchie Agbayani · Bill Hunter
Plot Follow the lives of Rikky, a talanted geologist, and her brother Pete, an off-the-wall mechanical genius. To find peace of mind they travel to the outbacks of Australia and meet...
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Melba (Great Performances) (TV)
1988 · Movie · 330 min. · Australia
Direction Rodney Fisher
Cast Linda Cropper · Hugo Weaving · Jon Ewing · Peter Carroll
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The Feminine Touch
1956 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pat Jackson
Cast George Baker · Belinda Lee · Delphi Lawrence · Adrienne Corri
Plot The public and private lives of 5 girls, who start out as student nurses in the National Health service during the 1950's.
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