Direction: Bryan Forbes

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Richard Attenborough · Kim Stanley · Judith Donner · Nanette Newman

Synopsis Myra (Kim Stanley), a self-styled psychic in London, concocts a scheme to gain celebrity. She convinces Billy, her weak-willed husband, to kidnap the young daughter of wealthy parents. She and Billy will demand money, and then she will go to...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Hayley Mills · Bernard Lee · Alan Bates · Norman Bird

Synopsis In England's north country, three children find an escaped and wounded murderer in a barn and convince themselves, through something he mutters, that he is the re-incarnation of Jesus Christ. Accepting the role, the man is safely hidden from the...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Edith Evans · Nanette Newman · Harry Baird · Jack Austin

Synopsis The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen all coiled up in a silent radio. The...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast George Segal · Tom Courtenay · James Fox · Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis George Segal is the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners. British officer James Fox helps...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Leslie Caron · Tom Bell · Bernard Lee · Brock Peters

Synopsis Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting an abortion, but is unhappy with this solution. She falls...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Katharine Ross · Paula Prentiss · Peter Masterson · Nanette Newman

Synopsis Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. Based on the Ira Levin's novel, in...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast John Mills · Michael Caine · Ralph Richardson · Peter Cook

Synopsis A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Paul Henreid · Oskar Homolka · Yul Brynner

Synopsis Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess Aurelia...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Gemma Craven · Annette Crosbie · Edith Evans

Synopsis In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father's death as she's forced...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Roger Moore · Rod Steiger · Elliott Gould · Art Carney

Synopsis For some inexplicable reason, a Chicago psychiatrist is the target of a gang of sinister killers. As his assailants move in for the kill, the doctor finds that he must face his adversaries alone in a deadly final showdown.

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Tatum O'Neal · Christopher Plummer · Anthony Hopkins · Nanette Newman

Synopsis A charming sequel to the hit National Velvet follows our young heroine and her trusty steed overseas.

Direction Bryan Forbes · Edouard Molinaro · Dino Risi · Gene Wilder

Cast Roger Moore · Lino Ventura · Ugo Tognazzi · Gene Wilder

Synopsis A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy).

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Michael Caine · Giovanna Ralli · Eric Portman · David Buck

Synopsis Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast David Niven · Maggie Smith · Art Carney · Catherine Hicks

Synopsis Nick (Niven) is the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old Bridget (Partridge), who stands to inherit a sizeable fortune. Charley (Carney) shows up and claims that he is the genuine grandpa. Both men once slept with Bridget's grandmother, and she was never...

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Albert Finney · George Segal · Derek de Lint · Monica Guerritore

Synopsis A British agent must examine events in his past to determine who killed his former and mistress and why.

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Nanette Newman · Georgia Brown · Gerald Sim

Synopsis Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.