Cinematography: Lionel Banes
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Lionel Banes. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cornelius
Cast Stanley Holloway · Betty Warren · Barbara Murray · Paul Dupuis
Plot When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, an area of London, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is, in fact part of...
6.8
719 votes
6.8
719 votes
One Step Beyond (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 25 min. · United States
Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively
Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule
Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...
6.8
60 votes
6.8
60 votes
The Avengers (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills
Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson
Plot TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
The Saint (TV Series)
1962 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers
Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord
Plot TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces...
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
The Night My Number Came Up
1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Norman
Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott
Plot A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream...
6.1
31 votes
6.1
31 votes
The Haunted Strangler
1958 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Day
Cast Boris Karloff · Jean Kent · Elizabeth Allan · Anthony Dawson
6.0
37 votes
6.0
37 votes
Fiend Without A Face
1958 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Crabtree
Cast Gil Winfield · Marshall Thompson · Michael Balfour · Terry Kilburn
Plot A Scientist, experimenting with telekinetic powers enhanced by a nearby nuclear power plant succeeds in creating a new form of life. This new creature grows in intelligence until it finally...
5.4
88 votes
5.4
88 votes
That Woman Opposite
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Phyllis Kirk · Dan O'Herlihy · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Petula Clark
Plot A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir...
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Valley of Song
1953 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gilbert Gunn
Cast Mervyn Johns · Clifford Evans · Maureen Swanson · John Fraser
Plot Story of how a little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd.
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Dangerous Cargo
1954 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Harlow
Cast Susan Stephen · Jack Watling · Karel Stepanek · Richard Pearson
Plot A gang tries to rob a cargo of bullion from an airport.
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Against the Wind
1948 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Crichton
Cast Robert Beatty · Simone Signoret · Jack Warner · Gordon Jackson
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I Only Arsked!
1958 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Bernard Bresslaw · Michael Medwin · Alfie Bass · Geoffrey Sumner
Plot A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at...
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ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
1955 · Series · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cyril Coke · John Llewellyn Moxey · Joan Kemp-Welch · Tania Lieven
Cast Alfred Burke · Derek Francis · Laurence Hardy · Peter Wyngarde
Plot TV Series (1955-1974). 13 seasons. 610 episodes.
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Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series)
1954 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield · Bernard Knowles · Arthur Crabtree · Phil Brown
Cast Boris Karloff · Ewan Roberts · Eric Pohlmann · Doris Dolan
Plot Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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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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Man in a Suitcase (TV Series)
1967 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Harris · Dennis Spooner · Charles Crichton · Peter Duffell
Cast Richard Bradford · Ricardo Montez · Warren Stanhope · Frank Forsyth
Plot McGill (known as "Mac") was a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his "false"...
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The Surgeon's Knife
1957 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Donald Houston · Adrienne Corri · Lyndon Brook · Jean Cadell
Plot A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
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The Magnet
1950 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend
Cast Stephen Murray · Kay Walsh · James Fox · Meredith Edwards
Plot Johnny Brent (Fox), whilst off school in quarantine for scarlet fever, manages to con a younger boy out of a magnet by swapping it for an "invisible watch". He uses...
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No Road Back
1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Montgomery Tully
Cast Skip Homeier · Paul Carpenter · Patricia Dainton · Norman Wooland
Plot A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to...
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