Direction: Sidney Gilliat

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Walter Rilla

Synopsis Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Sally Gray · Trevor Howard · Alastair Sim · Rosamund John

Synopsis Set in August 1944 during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive on London, a murder takes place in Heron's Park Emergency Hospital, a rural British hospital somewhere in the South-east of England. Inspector Cockrill is asked to investigate when the head nurse...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Peter Sellers · Mai Zetterling · Virginia Maskell · Kenneth Griffith

Synopsis John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Leighton · Kay Kendall · Cecil Parker

Synopsis Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house,...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Hayley Mills · Hywel Bennett · Britt Ekland · George Sanders

Synopsis Michael Rogers is a chauffeur with little money, but big dreams. Foremost of these is building his dream house on the perfect piece of land. Michael gets his chance when his new girlfriend, Ellie, turns out to be an extremely...

Direction Sidney Gilliat · Frank Launder

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

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 Sidney Gilliat

Cast John Mills · Stewart Granger · Alastair Sim · Joy Shelton

Synopsis A drama set during WWII. A tale of adultery & desertion. London 1940: Tillie Colter, lonely during her husband Jim's army service, falls for the local charmer Ted Purvis, who has dodged the army. Jim discovers the relationship and deserts...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Robert Morley · Maurice Evans · Eileen Herlie · Martyn Green

Synopsis The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Richard Attenborough · Alastair Sim · Fay Compton · Maurice Denham

Synopsis Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Rex Harrison · Lilli Palmer · Godfrey Tearle · Griffith Jones

Synopsis Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends,...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Jack Hawkins · Arlene Dahl · Dennis Price · Violet Farebrother

Synopsis Oliver Bramwell, an insurance inspector, arrives at Lewis Manor where he is to investigate a fire that broke out there on Christmas Eve. He rings the bell and to his amazement he finds himself face to face with Sarah, the...

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Ian Carmichael · Alastair Sim · Patricia Bredin · Richard Wattis

Synopsis At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party...