Cast: John Bailey

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


Visions of Light

1992 · Documentary · 92 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Glassman · Todd McCarthy · Stuart Samuels

Cast Robert Wise · Gordon Willis · Conrad L. Hall · Caleb Deschanel

Plot Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a...

7.1

282 votes

7.1

282 votes

Never Let Go

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Richard Todd · Peter Sellers · Elizabeth Sellars · Adam Faith

Plot Car salesman John (Richard Todd) can't seem to catch a break, so he decides to buy a car himself as a way to increase sales. But when his vehicle is...

6.6

166 votes

6.6

166 votes

American Cinema: Film Noir (TV)

1994 · Documentary · 56 min. · United States

Direction Jeffrey Schon

Cast Joe Morton · Kathryn Bigelow · Edward Dmytryk · Joseph H. Lewis

Plot This program examines the genre of film noir-its roots in German Expressionism; its links to the Cold War, from nuclear threats to blacklisting; and the use of special lighting and...

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 votes

Incident at Loch Ness

2004 · Documentary · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zak Penn

Cast Werner Herzog · Zak Penn · John Bailey · Jeff Goldblum

Plot In the Summer of 2003, acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog set out to make a documentary about Scotland's infamous Loch Ness, purported home of a prehistoric creature known as Nessie. Herzog's...

6.1

287 votes

6.1

287 votes

Santee

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Gary Nelson

Cast Glenn Ford · Michael Burns · Dana Wynter · Jay Silverheels

Plot Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, only to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter...

4.3

35 votes

4.3

35 votes

Moment of Danger

1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Dorothy Dandridge · Trevor Howard · Edmund Purdom · Michael Hordern

Plot A jewel thief pulls off a big heist, stabs his partner in crime in the back, dumps his girlfriend and goes on the run with the loot. The ex-partner and...

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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

Plot 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...

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Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (TV)

1965 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gareth Davies

Cast Keith Barron · John Bailey · Valerie Gearon · Cyril Luckham

Plot After "Stand Up, Nigel Barton", Nigel has graduated from Oxford and has a beautiful wife, a good job as a journalist and his political idealism untouched. When a Tory MP...

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The 14

1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hemmings

Cast Jack Wild · June Brown · Liz Edmiston · John Bailey

Plot A family of 14 children is suddenly orphaned and must now consider how to keep themselves from being separated by the authorities. They launch a brave campaign in the face...

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Cairo Road

1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Eric Portman · Laurence Harvey · Maria Mauban · Camelia

Plot The never-ending struggle of an Egyptian Narcotics Bureau unit. This time around,the murder of a rich Arab named Bashiri leads colonel Yussef Bey and his right-hand man Lieutenant Mourad to...

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Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers

2019 · Documentary · 91 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Raim

Cast John Bailey · Kevin Brownlow · Steve Gainer · Leonard Maltin

Plot It focuses on the origin story of American movies. It's rooted in the fearless personalities of camera-cranking visionaries who saw possibilities for the art form that couldn't be contained in...

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High Treason

1951 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

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So Little Time

1952 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Maria Schell · Marius Goring · Lucie Mannheim · Gabrielle Dorziat

Plot In Belgium, during World War II, a young music student and her mother are the only ones left of a large family, the men having all been lost in the...

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Running Scared

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Hemmings

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

Plot 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...

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Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks (TV)

1967 · Movie · 172 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Derek Martinus

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Alec Ross · Robert Jewell

Plot The TARDIS has been stolen by antiques dealer Edward Waterfield, who lures the Doctor and Jamie into a trap. They are transported back to Waterfield's own time, 1867, where his...

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Venetian Bird

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Richard Todd · Eva Bartok · John Gregson · George Coulouris

Plot Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the...

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The Franchise Affair

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast Michel Dennison · Dulcie Gray · Anthony Nicholls · Marjorie Fielding

Plot Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.

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Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Moira Armstrong · Philip Dudley · Ridley Scott · Paul Ciappessoni

Cast Gerald Harper · Juliet Harmer · Jack May · Peter Ducrow

Plot In 1902, Edwardian adventurer Adam Adamant is frozen alive in a block of ice by his arch-nemesis, the Face. In 1966, workmen discover him and he is revived, perfectly preserved...

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