Cast: Virginia McKenna

Direction Sergei Bondarchuk

Cast Rod Steiger · Christopher Plummer · Orson Welles · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis The film begins with Napoleon's forced abdication in 1814, after the battle of Leipzig. As the British contribution there was confined to one rocket artillery battery, to say (as the film does) that British forces were involved in Napoleon's defeat...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves...

Direction John Strickland

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Christian Coulson · Cherie Lunghi · Robert Pugh

Synopsis The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder will take place the following Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock. A group gathers and at...

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Virginia McKenna · Peter Finch · Kenji Takaki · Tran Van Khe

Synopsis In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British. A...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Virginia McKenna · Bill Travers · Peter Sellers · Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business -...

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast George C. Scott · Trish Van Devere · Virginia McKenna · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Gary Cooper · Charlton Heston · Michael Redgrave · Emlyn Williams

Synopsis Two sailors, one the captain of a beached cargo ship called the "Mary Deare", form an alliance to stop the ship's owner from collecting on an insurance scam which involved burning the ship's cargo and collecting on the loss.

Direction Sidney Franklin

Cast Jennifer Jones · John Gielgud · Bill Travers · Virginia McKenna

Synopsis The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a classic movie, from 1957, starring Jennifer Jones as the poet Elizabeth Barrett. The move explores her relationship with her controlling father Edward Mounton-Barrett (John Gielgud) and her love for Robert Browning (Bill Travers)....

Direction James Hill

Cast Virginia McKenna · Bill Travers · Geoffrey Keen · Peter Lukoye

Synopsis Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life.

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Virginia McKenna · Paul Scofield · Jack Warner · Denise Grey

Synopsis Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the...

Direction Peter Howitt

Cast Gwyneth Paltrow · John Hannah · John Lynch · Jeanne Tripplehorn

Synopsis Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this tale of parallel dimensions where she gets to lead two different lives simultaneously. In one, the British publicist she plays is stuck in a relationship with a philandering boyfriend and in the other she's deliriously...

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Donald Sinden · Virginia McKenna · Basil Sydney

Synopsis When Alan Howard, a young Englishman, arrives in Kenya to visit his older brother on his farm he finds the latter has been brutally murdered by the Mau Mau. He decides to go on exploiting the farm and to fight...

Direction Alberto De Martino

Cast Kirk Douglas · Simon Ward · Agostina Belli · Anthony Quayle

Synopsis An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind.

Direction Stuart Cooper

Cast Donald Sutherland · Francine Racette · David Hemmings · John Hurt

Synopsis Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.

Direction Martin Clunes

Cast Martin Clunes · Anna Chancellor · Michael Praed · Griff Rhys Jones

Synopsis Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is...

Direction David Thacker

Cast Bob Peck · Miranda Richardson · Douglas Hodge · Virginia McKenna

Synopsis Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle.

Direction Alvin Rakoff

Cast David Ogden Stiers · Hunt Block · David Caruso · Alex Hyde-White

Synopsis This movie describes the founding of the modern Olympics and concentrates on the creation of the American team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens.

Direction Piers Haggard

Cast Penelope Keith · Virginia McKenna · Ronald Pickup · Joan Sims

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Robert Stephens · Virginia McKenna · Judith Howarth · Robert Urquhart

Synopsis When Italian composer Giacomo Puccini is accused of sleeping with his maid, the scandal threatens to destroy his life and career. This biopic intercuts with director Tony Palmer's efforts to stage Puccini's last opera.

Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards

Cast Robert Beatty · Michael Medwin · Virginia McKenna · Mervyn Johns

Synopsis An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.