Direction: John Gilling

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Gilling. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Saint (TV Series)

1962 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Charteris · Leslie Norman · Roy Ward Baker · Jeremy Summers

Cast Roger Moore · Ivor Dean · Leslie Crawford · Justine Lord

Synopsis TV Series (1962-1969). 6 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Simon Templar is The Saint - adored by women, feared by his adversaries and a constant thorn in the side of police forces everywhere. A smooth-talking adventurer, the Saint goes in where angels...

6.3

1K votes

6.3

1K votes

The Champions (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · Paul Dickson · John Gilling · Robert Asher

Cast Stuart Damon · Alexandra Bastedo · William Gaunt · Anthony Nicholls

Synopsis TV Series (1968-1969). Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett were agents for Nemesis, an international intelligence organization based in Geneva. Their first mission as a team was to investigate some potentially lethal experiments in Communist China, but when they...

5.9

33 votes

5.9

33 votes

The Shadow of the Cat

1961 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Conrad Phillips · Barbara Shelley · André Morell · Richard Warner

Synopsis A female house cat sees her mistress murdered by her husband and two servants, and becomes ferociously bent on revenge.

5.9

55 votes

5.9

55 votes

The Plague of the Zombies

1966 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast André Morell · Louis Mahoney · Roy Royston · Diane Clare

Synopsis Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond...

5.7

465 votes

5.7

465 votes

The Pirates of Blood River

1962 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Kerwin Mathews · Glenn Corbett · Christopher Lee · Peter Arne

Synopsis In a village of Huguenot refugees, Jonathon Standing is exiled by his father to a nearby penal colony for his improper relationship with a married woman. This penal colony is then invaded by pirates who force Jonathan to lead them...

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

The Reptile

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Noel Willman · Jennifer Daniel · Ray Barrett · Jacqueline Pearce

Synopsis When his brother Charles Spalding (David Baron) mysteriously dies, Harry Spalding (Ray Barrett) and his wife Valerie (Jennifer Daniel) decide to move to the inherited cottage in a small village in the country. They are coldly received by the locals,...

5.5

289 votes

5.5

289 votes

Interpol

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Victor Mature · Anita Ekberg · Trevor Howard · Bonar Colleano

Synopsis U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis trails international dope smuggler Frank McNally by following his reluctant accomplice, Gina Broger, through the "pickup alleys" of New York, London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and Athens. When Gina is finally arrested by Interpol, she helps...

5.2

62 votes

5.2

62 votes

The Mummy's Shroud

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

5.2

206 votes

5.2

206 votes

5.1

49 votes

Odongo

1956 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Rhonda Fleming · Macdonald Carey · Juma · Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis Pamela Muir is a lovely veterinarian, who thinks the animals should run free. Steve Stratton is a hunter, who hires natives to assist with the capture and care of the animals. One day Stratton fires one of the locals. To...

4.9

32 votes

4.9

32 votes

The Bandit of Zhobe

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Victor Mature · Anne Aubrey · Anthony Newley · Norman Wooland

Synopsis On the British India a bandit goes on a rampage in the mistaken belief that the British have killed his family, which later proves to not be the case.

4.4

27 votes

4.4

27 votes

Direction John Gilling

Cast John Saxon · Maurice Denham · Patricia Haines · Alfred Burke

Synopsis The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.

4.1

45 votes

4.1

45 votes

La cruz del diablo

1975 · Movie · 92 min. · Spain

4.1

84 votes

4.1

84 votes

Department S (TV Series)

1969 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel · John Gilling · Ray Austin · Paul Dickson

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Joel Fabiani · Rosemary Nicols · Dennis Alaba Peters

Synopsis TV Series (1969-1970). 28 episodes. An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherited those cases which the other member groups had failed to solve. The brains of the group was Jason King, a hedonistic maverick who wrote mystery novels and...

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The Gilded Cage

1955 · Movie · 77 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Alex Nicol · Veronica Hurst · Clifford Evans · Ursula Howells

Synopsis Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.

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Not rated

Recoil

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Kieron Moore · Elizabeth Sellars · Edward Underdown · John Horsley

Synopsis Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang who killed her jeweller father, Michael.

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The Frightened Man

1952 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Dermot Walsh · Barbara Murray · Charles Victor · John Blythe

Synopsis The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks the heart of his father (Charles Victor), heads towards a calamity replete with Greek...

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Escape by Night

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Bonar Colleano · Andrew Ray · Sid James · Simone Silva

Synopsis An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.

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Not rated