Cast: Noel Purcell

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


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

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

4.6

115 votes

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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Svengali

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

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No Resting Place

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

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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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