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

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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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