Direction: John Boulting

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


The Magic Box

1951 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Plot Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

Seven Days to Noon

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Barry Jones · André Morell · Hugh Cross · Sheila Manahan

Plot An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of...

6.6

80 votes

6.6

80 votes

I'm All Right Jack

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Peter Sellers · Terry-Thomas · Richard Attenborough

Plot Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Brighton Rock

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Richard Attenborough · Carol Marsh · Hermione Baddeley · William Hartnell

Plot Pinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it...

6.5

338 votes

6.5

338 votes

Heavens Above!

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Peter Sellers · Cecil Parker · Isabel Jeans · Ian Carmichael

Plot A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.

5.9

122 votes

5.9

122 votes

Suspect

1960 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Tony Britton · Virginia Maskell · Ian Bannen · Kenneth Griffith

Plot A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed...

5.3

34 votes

5.3

34 votes

Seagulls Over Sorrento (Crest of the Wave)

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Gene Kelly · John Justin · Bernard Lee · Jeff Richards

Plot A small group of British sailors stationed on a Scottish island engaged in top-secret research on a new and dangerous torpedo are joined by a U.S. Navy scientist, Lt. Brad...

4.8

51 votes

4.8

51 votes

Journey Together

1945 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Richard Attenborough · Jack Watling · David Tomlinson · Stuart Latham

Plot David Wilton, John Aynesworth, and Smith are among a group of cadets hoping to become pilots in the Royal Air Force. David, however, has poor height perception and cannot master...

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Private's Progress

1956 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Ian Carmichael · Ronald Adam · Henry B. Longhurst · Peter Jones

Plot Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material. This leads...

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Lucky Jim

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast John Welsh · Ronald Cardew · Hugh Griffith · Kenneth Griffith

Plot Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse,...

Not rated

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Rotten to the Core

1965 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Anton Rodgers · Charlotte Rampling · Eric Sykes · Ian Bannen

Plot Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the...

Not rated

Not rated