Basil Dearden

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he ...

In 1908 London, a women’s rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its ...

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians ...

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he ...

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British ...

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they ...

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent ...

A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path ...

William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the ...

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ...

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of ...

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the ...

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill’s long-lost uncle ...

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for ...

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private ...

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a ...

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the ...

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to ...

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I ...

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who ...

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech ...

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales ...