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
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Paul Douglas · Alex Mackenzie · James Copeland · Abe Barker
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
Direction Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Derek Bond · Stanley Holloway · Alfred Drayton
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
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Jimmy O'Dea · Betty Driver · Sonnie Hale · Patrick Barr
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Wilcox
Cast Anna Neagle · Anthony Quayle · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Dora Bryan
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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
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Cecil Parker · Ronald Shiner · Leslie Phillips · Elvi Hale
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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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