Direction: Charles Frend

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · Donald Sinden · John Stratton · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis 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 life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves...

Direction Charles Frend · Peter Graham Scott · Michael Truman · Terry Bishop

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Richard Wattis · Lionel Murton · Michael Ripper

Synopsis John Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatened world peace.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast John Mills · Diana Churchill · Harold Warrender · Anne Firth

Synopsis Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she's "not the least jealous" that he's going...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Jack Hawkins · John Stratton · Dorothy Alison · Michael Brooke

Synopsis 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 crimes over the past two years. In every instance the...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Alec Guinness · Irene Browne · Maurice Denham · Percy Herbert

Synopsis Alec Guinness plays a British Naval Captain, plagued by incurable seasickness, who retires from service and buys a decrepit amusement pier in a small coastal town. After discovering the local commissioners seek to condemn and seize his pier he registers...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Will Hay · Bernard Miles · John Stuart · David Evans

Synopsis Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Tommy Trinder · Constance Cummings · Clifford Evans · Robert Morley

Synopsis Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Robert Donat · Kay Walsh · Denholm Elliott · Adrienne Corri

Synopsis The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Rachel Roberts · James Maxwell · Annette Whiteley · Ellen McIntosh

Synopsis A key example of British new wave, a great study of the uneasy life of 14 year old Sheila.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Donald Houston · Meredith Edwards · Moira Lister · Alec Guinness

Synopsis Comedy in which a pair of Welsh miners, Twm and Dai Jones, win a competition and take a trip to London to see the England-Wales Rugby match but miss their reception committee and get separated. One gets taken in by...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Arthur Young · Walter Fitzgerald · Ralph Michael · Neville Mapp

Synopsis The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Googie Withers · Jean Kent · John McCallum · Derek Bond

Synopsis In Edwardian Britain, a young woman has three suitors who seek her hand in marriage. When Joanna Godden's father died, he bequeathed her a farm on the Romney Marsh in Kent. Joanna is determined to run the farm herself. Her...

Direction Richard Harris · Dennis Spooner · Charles Crichton · Peter Duffell

Cast Richard Bradford · Ricardo Montez · Warren Stanhope · Frank Forsyth

Synopsis 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" reputation has preceded him everywhere he goes. To make ends...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Françoise Rosay · Tom Walls · Patricia Roc · Ralph Michael

Synopsis Warring communities of Breton and Cornish fishermen bury their differnces during the war and make friends when France is occupied by the Germans.

Direction Charles Frend · Bruno Vailati

Cast Lilli Palmer · James Mason · Gabriele Ferzetti · Alberto Lupo

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Michael Craig · Peter Cushing · Bernard Lee · Elizabeth Seal

Synopsis A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Stephen Murray · Kay Walsh · James Fox · Meredith Edwards

Synopsis 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 the magnet in a number of ways to gain an...

Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards · Robert Lynn · Charles Frend · Bill Lewthwaite

Cast Charles Korvin · Edwin Richfield · Roland Bartrop · George Pastell

Synopsis The series followed the adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.