Cast: Esma Cannon

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


Last Holiday

1950 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cass

Cast Alec Guinness · Beatrice Campbell · Kay Walsh · Grégoire Aslan

Synopsis George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to take the last holiday of the film's title and begins to find out that he was a more worthwhile and...

7.2

65 votes

7.2

65 votes

6.8

24 votes

A Canterbury Tale

1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet

Synopsis Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an...

6.8

364 votes

6.8

364 votes

The Sleeping Tiger

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Alexis Smith · Alexander Knox · Hugh Griffith

Synopsis A thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist, who captures him. In exchange for his freedom, the thief agrees to become a guinea pig for the doctor's rehabilitation theories with ultimately tragic results.

6.5

140 votes

6.5

140 votes

5.9

25 votes

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Shirley Eaton · Donald Pleasence

Synopsis Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long the guests begin to drop dead.

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Out of the Clouds

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Anthony Steel · Robert Beatty · David Knight · Margo Lorenz

Synopsis A busy day at London Airport. Follow the lives and loves of the crew and passengers.

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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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Here Come the Huggetts

1948 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Jack Warner · Kathleen Harrison · Jane Hylton · Susan Shaw

Synopsis The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp, this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone installed. In todays high technology age, it is an interesting...

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Noose for a Lady

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Wolf Rilla

Cast Dennis Price · Rona Anderson · Ronald Howard · Pamela Alan

Synopsis A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.

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Carry On Cabby

1963 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas

Cast Sid James · Hattie Jacques · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis Speedee Taxis is a great success, which means its workaholic owner Charlie starts neglecting Peggy, his wife. Suddenly a fleet of rival taxis appears from nowhere and start pinching all the fares. The rivals are Glamcabs, and they have a...

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Holiday Camp

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Flora Robson · Dennis Price · Jack Warner · Hazel Court

Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Average British Family...if the average British family consists of a husband, wife, widowed daughter and an adventurous son...go to a holiday camp, and encounter many people who are there for various and sundry reasons; a young, unmarried...

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Carry On Cruising

1962 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gerald Thomas · Ralph Thomas

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Kenneth Connor · Liz Fraser

Synopsis Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent...

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In the Doghouse

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

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Hide and Seek

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Ian Carmichael · Curd Jürgens · Janet Munro · George Pravda

Synopsis A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as...

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The Huggetts Abroad

1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Jack Warner · Kathleen Harrison · Dinah Sheridan · Susan Shaw

Synopsis Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by...

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Crow Hollow

1952 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael McCarthy

Cast Donald Houston · Natasha Parry · Patricia Owens · Esma Cannon

Synopsis A story of a newly-wed wife of a young doctor who goes to live with him in an oppressive old house where various mysterious attempts are made on her life.

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Sailor Beware

1956 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Peggy Mount · Shirley Eaton · Ronald Lewis · Cyril Smith

Synopsis Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding,...

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English Without Tears

1944 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harold French

Cast Penelope Dudley-Ward · Michael Wilding · Lilli Palmer · Claude Dauphin

Synopsis While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks...

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The Steel Key

1953 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert S. Baker

Cast Terence Morgan · Joan Rice · Raymond Lovell · Dianne Foster

Synopsis An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.

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