Cast: Noel Purcell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Noel Purcell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 40
The Crimson Pirate
1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Burt Lancaster · Eva Bartok · Nick Cravat · Torin Thatcher
Synopsis Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing...
7.5
11K votes
7.5
11K votes
Mutiny on the Bounty
1962 · Movie · 178 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Milestone
Cast Marlon Brando · Trevor Howard · Richard Harris · Hugh Griffith
Synopsis The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at...
7.3
7K votes
7.3
7K votes
Moby Dick
1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice
Synopsis The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
7.3
9K votes
7.3
9K votes
Merry Andrew
1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Michael Kidd
Cast Danny Kaye · Pier Angeli · Salvatore Baccaloni · Robert Coote
Synopsis Downtrodden but creative English school-teacher Andrew Larabee (Danny Kaye) on archeological trip discovers joys of love and circus life with acrobat Selena Gallini (Pier Angeli).
6.4
73 votes
6.4
73 votes
The Key
1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast William Holden · Sophia Loren · Trevor Howard · Oskar Homolka
Synopsis In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key...
6.2
205 votes
6.2
205 votes
The Ballad of the Running Man
1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Laurence Harvey · Lee Remick · Alan Bates · Felix Aylmer
Synopsis Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the insurance investigator from the claim...
5.8
176 votes
5.8
176 votes
Appointment with Venus
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast David Niven · Glynis Johns · George Coulouris · Barry Jones
Synopsis At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid...
5.6
175 votes
5.6
175 votes
Ferry to Hong Kong
1959 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Curd Jürgens · Orson Welles · Sylvia Syms · Jeremy Spenser
Synopsis Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are...
5.5
27 votes
5.5
27 votes
Sinful Davey
1969 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast John Hurt · Pamela Franklin · Nigel Davenport · Ronald Fraser
Synopsis Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the...
5.3
213 votes
5.3
213 votes
The Seekers / Land of Fury
1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Noel Purcell · Inia Te Wiata
4.9
96 votes
4.9
96 votes
Doctor at Sea
1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Brenda De Banzie · Brigitte Bardot · James Robertson Justice
Synopsis With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters...
4.7
40 votes
4.7
40 votes
The Millionairess
1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Sophia Loren · Peter Sellers · Alastair Sim · Vittorio De Sica
4.6
115 votes
4.6
115 votes
The Irish R.M. (TV Series)
1983 · Series · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker · Robert Chetwyn · John Howard · Peter Sykes
Cast Peter Bowles · Bryan Murray · Beryl Reid · Niall Toibin
Synopsis TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. A drama about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-20th-century West Ireland. When fine gentleman Major Sinclair Yeates leaves his home in England to work as the pre-Independence...
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Talk of a Million
1951 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Paddy Carstairs
Cast Jack Warner · Barbara Mullen · Joan Kenny · Elizabeth Erskine
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Svengali
1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Noël Langley
Cast Hildegard Knef · Donald Wolfit · Terence Morgan · Derek Bond
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No Resting Place
1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Rotha
Cast Michael Gough · Eithne Dunn · Noel Purcell · Brian O'Higgins
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The Blue Lagoon
1949 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Jean Simmons · Donald Houston · Susan Stranks · Peter Rudolph Jones
Synopsis Two children are shipwrecked on a desert-island and fall in love while growing up together.
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Nurse on Wheels
1963 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Juliet Mills · Ronald Lewis · Joan Sims · Noel Purcell
Synopsis Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with...
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Double Bunk
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast Ian Carmichael · Janette Scott · Sid James · Liz Fraser
Synopsis When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they...
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Grand National Night
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bob McNaught
Cast Nigel Patrick · Moira Lister · Beatrice Campbell · Betty Ann Davies
Synopsis After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' horse wins the Grand National, his wife come home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed. Coates insists that she didn't come home after the big...
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