Direction: Frank Launder

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Deborah Kerr · Trevor Howard · Raymond Huntley · Liam Redmond

Synopsis Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole

Synopsis 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 run at the nearby Gold Cup so Clarence Fitton, bookie...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Cecil Parker · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Eric Barker

Synopsis When the school burns to the ground there's clearly been some arson around. The pupils are found guilty and the judge hands them into the care of a pretty dubious child psychiatrist. The sixth form are soon kidnapped and on...

Direction Sidney Gilliat · Frank Launder

Cast Frankie Howerd · Dora Bryan · George Cole · Reg Varney

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Jean Simmons · Donald Houston · Susan Stranks · Peter Rudolph Jones

Synopsis Two children are shipwrecked on a desert-island and fall in love while growing up together.

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Alastair Sim · Elizabeth Allan · Roland Culver · Colin Gordon

Synopsis A newly-arrived army padre is put in charge of camp entertainment.

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Flora Robson · Patricia Roc · Renee Houston

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Alastair Sim · Margaret Rutherford · Guy Middleton

Synopsis 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 that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon...

Direction Sidney Gilliat · Frank Launder

Cast Patricia Roc · Gordon Jackson · Anne Crawford · Basil Radford

Synopsis When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamor job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls for...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Dennis Price · John McCallum · Stanley Holloway · Pauline Stroud

Synopsis Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Terry-Thomas · George Cole · Joyce Grenfell · Alastair Sim

Synopsis To further the aims of the St Trinian's Marriage Bureau run by Flash Harry, the school contrives to win a competition with a European "Goodwill" trip as prize, to the horror of the Ministry of Education. Joe Mangan, father of...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Sheila Hancock · Michael Hordern · Joe Melia · Thorley Walters

Synopsis The girls of St. Trinian's decide they are being asked to do too much work so they go on strike.

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Bill Travers · Bernadette O'Farrell · George Cole · Duncan Macrae

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Alastair Sim · Bill Travers · Paul Young · Norah Gorsen

Synopsis Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. At the age of 21, he displays a talent for hammer-throwing, and is selected to represent Britain in...

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Harry H. Corbett · Stanley Baxter · Bill Fraser · Percy Herbert

Synopsis Busted for running an illegal gambling den during the Second World War, a gang of East End wideboys choose conscription over prison and take their talents on a tour of duty.

Direction Frank Launder

Cast Stewart Granger · Kathleen Ryan · Alastair Sim · Robert Donat

Synopsis Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of Erne. The impoverished farmers conspire to banish him from the...