Direction: John Gilling
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Gilling. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 38
The Flesh and the Fiends
1960 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Peter Cushing · June Laverick · Donald Pleasence · George Rose
6.8
302 votes
6.8
302 votes
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
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Ronald Lewis · Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Duncan Lamont
5.4
117 votes
5.4
117 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
Direction John Gilling
Cast André Morell · John Phillips · David Buck · Elizabeth Sellars
5.2
206 votes
5.2
206 votes
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
1961 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Gilling
Cast Peter Cushing · John Fraser · Bernard Lee · Michèle Mercier
5.1
49 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
The Night Caller / Blood Beast from Outer Space
1965 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
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
Direction John Gilling
Cast Carmen Sevilla · Adolfo Marsillach · Emma Cohen · Ramiro Oliveros
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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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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