Cinematography: Stanley Pavey
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Stanley Pavey. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Dead of Night
1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer
Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver
Plot Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural,...
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast Mervyn Johns · Mary Merrall · Gordon Jackson · Jean Ireland
Plot In Victorian Brighton a scheming pub landlady befriends an innocent chemist's assistant in order to get hold of poison to do away with her boozy husband.
6.0
23 votes
6.0
23 votes
Happy Ever After
1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mario Zampi
Cast David Niven · Yvonne De Carlo · Barry Fitzgerald · George Cole
Plot The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon...
6.0
75 votes
6.0
75 votes
Rough Shoot
1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Parrish
Cast Joel McCrea · Evelyn Keyes · Herbert Lom · Roland Culver
Plot U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Robert Taine and his wife Cecily live in a village in England. While hunting on some land he has recently purchased, he shoots a load of...
5.8
24 votes
5.8
24 votes
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole
Plot The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to...
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
The Naked Truth
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mario Zampi
Cast Terry-Thomas · Peter Sellers · Peggy Mount · Shirley Eaton
Plot Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit)...
5.7
27 votes
5.7
27 votes
The Happiness of Three Women
1954 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Brenda De Banzie · Eynon Evans · Petula Clark · Donald Houston
Plot Light, pleasantly told story of a Welsh village postman's successful and ingenious efforts to bring happiness back into the lives of an assortment of people--quarrelling newlyweds, rich and snobbish widow,...
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Don't Blame the Stork
1954 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ákos Ráthonyi
Cast Veronica Hurst · Ian Hunter · Reginald Beckwith · Patricia Laffan
Plot When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it...
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The Galloping Major
1951 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cornelius
Cast Basil Radford · Jimmy Hanley · Janette Scott · A.E. Matthews
Plot A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Margaret Rutherford · Guy Middleton
Plot Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school...
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Fame Is the Spur
1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Michael Redgrave · Rosamund John · Bernard Miles · Carla Lehmann
Plot Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while...
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The Jack Benny Program (TV Series)
1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Frederick de Cordova · Ralph Levy · Norman Abbott · Seymour Berns
Cast Jack Benny · Mary Livingstone · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Phil Harris
Plot The Jack Benny Program evolved from a variety show blending sketch comedy and musical interludes into the situation comedy form we know even now, crafting particular situations and scenarios from...
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The Projected Man
1966 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ian Curteis
Cast Mary Peach · Bryant Haliday · Norman Wooland · Ronald Allen
Plot A scientist experimenting with matter transmission from place to place by means of a laser beam suddenly decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry,...
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Mystery Submarine
1962 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast Edward Judd · James Robertson Justice · Laurence Payne · Joachim Fuchsberger
Plot During WWII, the British Royal Navy uses a captured German submarine to trick the enemy and protect their supply convoy.
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Home Is the Hero
1959 · Movie · 80 min. · Ireland
Direction Fielder Cook
Cast Walter Macken · Eileen Crowe · Arthur Kennedy · Joan O'Hara
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They Came to a City
1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast John Clements · Googie Withers · Raymond Huntley · Renee Gadd
Plot Adapted from a J.B. Priestly play with many of the original actors. The tale of various people who have come to live in an "ideal" city and their hopes and...
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They Can't Hang Me
1955 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Val Guest
Cast Terence Morgan · Yolande Donlan · Anthony Oliver · André Morell
Plot Sentenced to death for murder, a civil servant reveals that he has long been a foreign agent smuggling secrets out of the country. He meets with special branch officer Inspector...
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Too Many Crooks
1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mario Zampi
Cast Terry-Thomas · George Cole · Brenda De Banzie · Bernard Bresslaw
Plot Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers...
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The Man in the Road
1956 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Derek Farr · Ella Raines · Donald Wolfit · Lisa Daniely
Plot A man suffering from amnesia is held at an English country estate, used as a sanatorium. The doctors and nurses insist on an identity unfamiliar with him, and he's to...
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Dreaming
1944 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Baxter
Cast Bud Flanagan · Chesney Allen · Hazel Court · Dick Francis
Plot In this film Flanagan suffers a bump on the head,and whilst being operated on he has a number of totally unrelated dreams.
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