Cast: Esma Cannon
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Esma Cannon. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 25
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
The Years Between
1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie
6.8
24 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
Jassy
1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Knowles
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Patricia Roc · Dennis Price · Basil Sydney
5.9
25 votes
5.9
25 votes
What a Carve Up! / No Place Like Homicide!
1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
In the Doghouse
1961 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Darcy Conyers
Cast Leslie Phillips · Peggy Cummins · Hattie Jacques · James Booth
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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,...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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...
—
Not rated
—
Not rated
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.
—
Not rated
—
Not rated