Cast: Edward Underdown

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Edward Underdown. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Janet Munro · Leo McKern · Edward Judd · Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis Journalists of the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world, such as flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, and violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. All over England, temperatures are on...

6.6

330 votes

6.6

330 votes

Khartoum

1966 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden · Eliot Elisofon

Cast Charlton Heston · Laurence Olivier · Richard Johnson · Ralph Richardson

Synopsis After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

The Two-Headed Spy

1958 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction André De Toth

Cast Jack Hawkins · Gia Scala · Erik Schumann · Alexander Knox

Synopsis World War II spy thriller supposedly based on true story. British secret agent (Jack Hawkins) successfully infiltrates Nazi military, achieves rank of general during WWII. He gains full confidence of entire Nazi high command, including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler himself, save...

6.4

184 votes

6.4

184 votes

Beat the Devil

1953 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gina Lollobrigida · Jennifer Jones · Robert Morley

Synopsis The last of five joint efforts between director John Huston and Humphrey Bogart, Beat The Devil has become a cinema classic. Truman Capote´s witty script sends Bogart into a complex scheme to gain control of a stretch of East African...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Recoil

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Kieron Moore · Elizabeth Sellars · Edward Underdown · John Horsley

Synopsis Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang who killed her jeweller father, Michael.

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Street of Shadows

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Vernon

Cast Cesar Romero · Kay Kendall · Edward Underdown · Victor Maddern

Synopsis Small-time Soho hustler gets caught up in the murder of an ex-girl friend, evades the police and finally helps them to corner the real murderer.

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Man on the Run

1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast Joan Hopkins · Derek Farr · Edward Chapman · Laurence Harvey

Synopsis An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.

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They Were Not Divided

1950 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Edward Underdown · Ralph Clanton · Helen Cherry · Stella Andrew

Synopsis The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a...

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Information Received

1961 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Lynn

Cast Sabine Sesselmann · William Sylvester · Hermione Baddeley · Edward Underdown

Synopsis Detective poses as notorious American safe robber and breaks a vicious gang.

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Brass Monkey

1948 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Carroll Levis · Carole Landis · Herbert Lom · Avril Angers

Synopsis Radio personality Carroll Levis becomes involved in a case of theft and murder.

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The Woman with No Name

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ladislao Vajda

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Edward Underdown · Helen Cherry · Richard Burton

Synopsis A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and then a crippled man comes to her and says she...

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The Woman in the Hall

1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Jean Simmons · Ursula Jeans · Cecil Parker · Joan Miller

Synopsis Ursula Jeans is a opportunistic woman with two daughters, that to survive manipulates various society matrons and men to get money and status to make her way through society. The girls are given a distorted view of what 'real life'...

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The Camp on Blood Island

1958 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast André Morell · Carl Möhner · Walter Fitzgerald · Edward Underdown

Synopsis Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp. Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder them...

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The Voice of Merrill

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Valerie Hobson · Edward Underdown · James Robertson Justice · Henry Kendall

Synopsis The story of four people directly and indirectly involved with the murder of a female blackmailer. The three male suspects are the girl's publisher employer; an up-and-coming writer (Edward Undertown); a brillant established writer (James Robertson Justice) who is an...

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The Rainbow Jacket

1954 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Robert Morley · Kay Walsh · Edward Underdown · Fella Edmonds

Synopsis A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

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Direction Frederic Goode

Cast William Sylvester · Diane Clare · Aliza Gur · Edward Underdown

Synopsis A handsome tourist travelling through the desert comes at night upon a lavish Moorish castle wherein he is entertained by a mysterious wealthy woman. He departs and returns in the morning to find the place has vanished. His inquiries only...

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Inspector Hornleigh

1938 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Gordon Harker · Alastair Sim · Miki Hood · Wally Patch

Synopsis Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.

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Running Scared

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hemmings

Cast Robert Powell · Gayle Hunnicutt · Barry Morse · Stephanie Bidmead

Synopsis When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend Tom Betancourt is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.

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The Third Alibi

1961 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Laurence Payne · Patricia Dainton · Jane Griffiths · Edward Underdown

Synopsis A composer stuck in a middle-class marriage finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister has resulted in her pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

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Doctor Who: Meglos (TV)

1980 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Dudley

Cast Tom Baker · Lalla Ward · Bill Fraser · Frederick Treves

Synopsis The Doctor is invited to visit the planet Tigella by its leader, Zastor, who has become concerned about disputes between his people's two opposing factions, the religious Deons and the scientist Savants. The TARDIS is intercepted by the megalomaniacal xerophyte...

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