Cast: Victor Maddern

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


Seven Waves Away

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Tyrone Power · Mai Zetterling · Lloyd Nolan · Stephen Boyd

Synopsis After their luxury liner is sunk, a group of over twenty survivors take refuge in a life boat made for only nine. Included in the group are an old opera singer, a nuclear physicist, his wife and child, a General,...

7.2

236 votes

7.2

236 votes

H.M.S. Defiant

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Synopsis The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

6.6

289 votes

6.6

289 votes

I'm All Right Jack

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Peter Sellers · Terry-Thomas · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Morning Departure

1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast John Mills · Nigel Patrick · Peter Hammond · Andrew Crawford

Synopsis The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

6.4

57 votes

6.4

57 votes

Dunkirk

1958 · Movie · 134 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast John Mills · Robert Urquhart · Ray Jackson · Meredith Edwards

Synopsis One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes place during the 1940 evacuation of Allied troops across the...

6.3

111 votes

6.3

111 votes

Saint Joan

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jean Seberg · Richard Widmark · John Gielgud · Richard Todd

Synopsis Graham Greene wrote the screenplay based on George Bernard Shaw's drama, and Jean Seberg made her screen debut as Joan of Arc. With a superb performance by John Gielgud as the Earl of Warwick.

6.3

375 votes

6.3

375 votes

The Night My Number Came Up

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream in which another of those present, a senior Royal Air...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

Time Bomb

1953 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Glenn Ford · Anne Vernon · Maurice Denham · Harcourt Williams

Synopsis A terrorist has placed a bomb on board a train transporting sea mines to Portsmouth. The train is stopped but near a small town, which actually exacerbates the problem. In desperation, the local authorities contact Peter Lyncort, a former Canadian...

5.9

40 votes

5.9

40 votes

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction José Ferrer

Cast José Ferrer · Trevor Howard · Dora Bryan · Victor Maddern

Synopsis A British Army Reserve Major must work with a veteran Captain and a group of incorrigible recruits to attempt what is generally regarded as a suicide mission: the covert destruction of an entire German shipyard in occupied France.

5.4

120 votes

5.4

120 votes

5.1

111 votes

Carry On Cleo

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter,...

4.9

42 votes

4.9

42 votes

4.6

165 votes

4.6

83 votes

All at Sea

1957 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Browne · Maurice Denham · Percy Herbert

Synopsis Alec Guinness plays a British Naval Captain, plagued by incurable seasickness, who retires from service and buys a decrepit amusement pier in a small coastal town. After discovering the local commissioners seek to condemn and seize his pier he registers...

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Direction Harry Watt

Cast Aldo Ray · Heather Sears · Neil McCallum · Victor Maddern

Synopsis Sydney. Matt Kirk (Aldo Ray) is a prisoner intent on clearing his name. Together with fellow prisoners Bert (Victor Maddern) and Luke (Carlo Justini) and Matt's brother Johnny (Neil McCallum), he stages an escape on board a boat. When the...

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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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Please Turn Over

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Ted Ray · Jean Kent · Leslie Phillips · Joan Sims

Synopsis The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local population. They begin to see themselves...

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Face in the Night

1957 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Griffith Jones · Lisa Gastoni · Vincent Ball · Eddie Byrne

Synopsis A woman witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.

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Direction Luke Marcatili · Gary Russell · Hugh David · Chloe Grech

Cast Patrick Troughton · Frazer Hines · Victor Maddern · John Abineri

Synopsis The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Victoria and Jamie to the coast of England, where the ESGO complex is drawing up natural gas from the North Sea. But the Doctor is convinced he can hear something in the pipes, a heartbeat,...

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The Bushbaby

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Trent

Cast Margaret Brooks · Louis Gossett Jr. · Donald Houston · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future...

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Not rated