Direction: Lewis Gilbert

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Margaret Lockwood · Kay Walsh · Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of 'accidental death', our crafty killer discovers that his late wife's...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Alec Guinness · Dirk Bogarde · Anthony Quayle · Tom Bell

Synopsis The crew of a British sailing ship threatens mutiny during the Napoleonic wars.

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Caine · Julie Walters · Michael Williams · Maureen Lipman

Synopsis Bored with teaching undergraduates English literature, Frank Bryant morosely reflects through a whisky glass on his failed marriage and his attempt at becoming a poet. His world is turned upside down by the arrival of Rita, a hairdresser who has...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Muriel Pavlow · Lyndon Brook · Lee Patterson

Synopsis The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Pauline Collins · Tom Conti · Julia McKenzie · Alison Steadman

Synopsis Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Sally Ann Howes · Martita Hunt · Cecil Parker

Synopsis Comedy based on James Barrie's classic play in which Kenneth More's English butler, shipwrecked with his employers, resourcefully leads them in their attempts to survive. Social satire about an aristocratic family and their butler who are marooned on a tropical...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Laurence Harvey · Gloria Grahame · Richard Basehart · Joan Collins

Synopsis Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted by Miles Ravenscourt, an amoral "gentleman." Because they need money,...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Caine · Shelley Winters · Millicent Martin · Julia Foster

Synopsis For Alfie, the only real life is sex life; only then can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy's way to 'the top'. Executive status has no appeal for Alfie. Nor has class...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Sean Connery · Donald Pleasence · Akiko Wakabayashi · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis In You Only Live Twice (1967), James Bond is sent to Japan to investigate the mysterious disappearance of American and Soviet spacecraft, which threatens global tensions. Posing as a local fisherman, Bond uncovers a sinister plot by the shadowy organization...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Dana Wynter · Carl Möhner · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Martin Shaw · Joss Ackland · Nicola Pagett

Synopsis In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The terror and oppression that follow cause Allied authorities in London to authorize a secret mission to kill the man who has come...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Roger Moore · Barbara Bach · Curd Jürgens · Richard Kiel

Synopsis In The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), British agent James Bond teams up with a seductive Soviet spy to stop a megalomaniacal villain from triggering global chaos. Their mission leads them to a mysterious supertanker and a plot involving stolen...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Virginia McKenna · Paul Scofield · Jack Warner · Denise Grey

Synopsis Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Sean Bury · Anicée Alvina · Ronald Lewis · Toby Robins

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast William Holden · Capucine · Tetsurô Tanba · Susannah York

Synopsis Three friends who fought the Japanese in Malaya during World War II end up on opposing sides in the Communist insurgency following the war. Major Ferris (William Holden) becomes a prosperous rubber plantation owner, with beautiful Dhana (Capucine) as his...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Roger Moore · Lois Chiles · Michael Lonsdale · Richard Kiel

Synopsis In Moonraker (1979), James Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to billionaire Hugo Drax. As Bond travels from California to Venice and the Amazon rainforest, he uncovers Drax's sinister plan to create a master race in...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Curd Jürgens · Orson Welles · Sylvia Syms · Jeremy Spenser

Synopsis Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kate Beckinsale · Aidan Quinn · Anthony Andrews · John Gielgud

Synopsis Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Charles Aznavour · Alan Badel · Candice Bergen · Thommy Berggren

Synopsis The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Julie Walters · John Hannah · Joanne Whalley · Victoria Hamilton

Synopsis The imperfect lives of three sisters are revealed at their unloved mother's funeral.