Cast: Reginald Beckwith

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


Night of the Demon

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Dana Andrews · Peggy Cummins · Niall MacGinnis · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Dr. John Holden ventures to London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the intention to expose devil cult leader, Julian Karswell. Holden is a skeptic and does not believe in Karswell's power. Nonetheless, he accepts an invitation to stay...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Man with a Million

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gregory Peck · Ronald Squire · Joyce Grenfell · A.E. Matthews

Synopsis An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the...

6.6

971 votes

6.6

971 votes

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Janet Munro · Leo McKern · Edward Judd · Michael Goodliffe

Synopsis Journalists of the London Daily Express investigate reports of strange phenomena occurring all over the world, such as flooding in the Sahara, unseasonable blizzards in New York, and violent tornadoes in the Soviet Union. All over England, temperatures are on...

6.6

330 votes

6.6

330 votes

The Titfield Thunderbolt

1953 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Stanley Holloway · George Relph · Naunton Wayne · John Gregson

Synopsis Comedy of railfans who take over their village's passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when British Rail abandons it.

6.6

422 votes

6.6

422 votes

Another Man's Poison

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Irving Rapper

Cast Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Emlyn Williams · Anthony Steel

Synopsis Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime...

6.6

200 votes

6.6

200 votes

Burn, Witch, Burn

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Janet Blair · Margaret Johnston · Anthony Nicholls

Synopsis A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put...

6.5

370 votes

6.5

370 votes

Scott of the Antarctic

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast John Mills · Diana Churchill · Harold Warrender · Anne Firth

Synopsis Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she's "not the least jealous" that he's going...

6.5

141 votes

6.5

141 votes

Genevieve

1953 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Dinah Sheridan · John Gregson · Kay Kendall · Kenneth More

Synopsis It's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. Along the way, some old jealousies are kindled...

6.4

222 votes

6.4

222 votes

The Horse's Mouth

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · Kay Walsh · Renee Houston · Mike Morgan

Synopsis Gulley Jimson is broke, difficult, conniving, uncouth, and a welcher - but an artist. The visions in his head may not really satisfy him when realized, but the quest continues, for the perfect wall. The Beeders leave for six weeks...

6.3

255 votes

6.3

255 votes

The Big Job

1965 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Sylvia Syms · Dick Emery · Joan Sims

Synopsis An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out to collect the money they had stolen and which George...

6.1

88 votes

6.1

88 votes

The 39 Steps

1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Kenneth More · Taina Elg · Brenda De Banzie · Barry Jones

Synopsis Second adaptation of the novel by John Buchan, with a more comedy than its predecessor.

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes

Lancelot and Guinevere

1963 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cornel Wilde

Cast Cornel Wilde · Jean Wallace · Brian Aherne · George Baker

Synopsis Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere, bride of Arthur, and she for him. A sub-plot concerns Arthur's effort to forestall...

5.4

79 votes

5.4

79 votes

5.0

103 votes

Mister Moses

1965 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Robert Mitchum · Carroll Baker · Ian Bannen · Alexander Knox

Synopsis The latter-day Mister (Joe) Moses is a snake-oil pitchman who is chased out of an African village and is found, literally, in the bull-rushes by Julie Anderson, daughter of missionary Reverand Anderson who has learned that he is a diamond...

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Carry on Admiral

1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

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Brandy for the Parson

1952 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Eldridge

Cast James Donald · Kenneth More · Jean Lodge · Frederick Piper

Synopsis Bill Harper and Petronilla Brand are a young couple that, through a series of mishaps and accidents, get unintentionally involved in a brandy-smuggling (from France) racket. Because of an accidental sinking of Tony Rackham's boat, Bill and Patricia take him...

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Expresso Bongo

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Laurence Harvey · Sylvia Syms · Yolande Donlan · Cliff Richard

Synopsis Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the road to stardom. The deal they cut, however,...

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Don't Blame the Stork

1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ákos Ráthonyi

Cast Veronica Hurst · Ian Hunter · Reginald Beckwith · Patricia Laffan

Synopsis When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for...

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Penny Princess

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Yolande Donlan · Dirk Bogarde · A.E. Matthews · Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he...

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