Cinematography: Gordon Dines

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Gordon Dines. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Pool of London

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Plot Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

7.1

31 votes

7.1

31 votes

The Maggie

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

7.0

218 votes

7.0

218 votes

Frieda

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast David Farrar · Glynis Johns · Mai Zetterling · Flora Robson

Plot An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped...

6.9

22 votes

6.9

22 votes

The Cruel Sea

1953 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott

Plot At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make...

6.9

102 votes

6.9

102 votes

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

6.6

112 votes

6.6

112 votes

The Colditz Story

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast John Mills · Christopher Rhodes · Lionel Jeffries · Bryan Forbes

Plot Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle.

6.3

106 votes

6.3

106 votes

The Blue Lamp

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Jimmy Hanley · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Flemyng

Plot A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies which finally results in the death of a policeman.

6.1

128 votes

6.1

128 votes

Secret People

1952 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Valentina Cortese · Serge Reggiani · Charles Goldner · Audrey Hepburn

Plot In 1930, Maria Brentano and her younger sister Nora flee to London after their father is murdered by a European dictator. Seven years later, during a weekend trip to Paris,...

5.9

51 votes

5.9

51 votes

The Long Arm (The Third Key)

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · John Stratton · Dorothy Alison · Michael Brooke

Plot A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar...

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The Siege of Pinchgut (Four Desperate Men)

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harry Watt

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

Plot 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),...

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Let's Be Famous

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

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Wonderful Things

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Frankie Vaughan · Jeremy Spenser · Jocelyn Lane · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée,...

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Penny Paradise

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Betty Driver · Jimmy O'Dea · Ethel Coleridge

Plot A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive...

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The Gentle Gunman

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast John Mills · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Beatty · Elizabeth Sellars

Plot IRA member Terry modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows...

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The Navy Lark

1959 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

1957 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Todd · William Hartnell · Akim Tamiroff · Donald Houston

Plot While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire....

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Train of Events

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Cole · Charles Crichton · Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Gladys Henson · Susan Shaw · Patric Doonan

Plot A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

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The Crowded Day

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Guillermin

Cast Joan Rice · Josephine Griffin · Freda Jackson · Patricia Marmont

Plot One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

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The Phantom Strikes (The Gaunt Stranger)

1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Sonnie Hale · Wilfrid Lawson · Louise Henry · Alexander Knox

Plot Crooked lawyer Maurice Meister's (Lawson) life is threatened by his ex-partner who is a master of disguise known as the Ringer. The police give him protection and place in his...

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Not rated