The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

English

6.3

♡ 8

Action

based on novel or book

Lewis Gilbert Director

James Kenney as Cpl. Skinner

Nigel Patrick as Flight Sgt. Singsby

Jack Watling as Flying Officer Harding

Joan Sims as Hilda Tebbitt

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

The Slasher

1953

English

6.1

♡ 4

Action

based on play or musical

Lewis Gilbert Director

Sidney James as Police Sergeant

Arthur Howard as Registrar

Joan Collins as Rene

James Kenney as Roy

Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.

Outcast of the Islands

1951

English

6.9

♡ 3

52%

Carol Reed Director

Peter Illing as Alagappan

James Kenney as Ramsey

Marne Maitland as Ships Mate

Trevor Howard as Willems

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

Glory at Sea

1952

English

6.3

♡ 4

Compton Bennett Director

James Kenney as John A. Fraser, Hugh's Son

Harold Ayer as Lt. Cmdr Carson

Trevor Howard as Lt. Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser

Harry Towb as Minor Role

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.

The Gentle Gunman

1952

English

6.4

♡ 3

ira (irish republican army)

noir

terrorism

Thriller

Basil Dearden Director

Liam Redmond as Connolly

James Kenney as Johnny Fagan

Dirk Bogarde as Matt Sullivan

John Mills as Terence Sullivan

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

Vice Versa

1948

English

6.3

♡ 4

33%

based on novel or book

Peter Ustinov Director

Alfie Bass as 1st Urchin

James Kenney as Coggs

Timothy Bateson as Coker

James Robertson Justice as Dr. Grimstone

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

The Good Die Young

1954

English

6.7

♡ 9

53%

Lewis Gilbert Director

James Kenney as Dave - Angela's Brother

Gloria Grahame as Denise

John Ireland as Eddie

Richard Basehart as Joe

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

The Magic Box

1951

English

7.0

♡ 2

76%

Biography

Drama

History

John Boulting Director

Roland Culver as 1st Company Promoter

Janette Scott as Ethel Friese-Greene

Dennis Price as Harold

James Kenney as Kenneth Friese-Greene

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 it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The Outsider

1948

English

6.8

♡ 4

Drama

public school

Roy Boulting Director

Oscar Quitak as David Tracey

Richard Attenborough as Jack Read - The Boy

James Kenney as Pupil

Timothy Bateson as Ronald Lacey

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

Captain Horatio Hornblower

1951

English

7.3

♡ 12

100%

Raoul Walsh Director

Gregory Peck as Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N

Robert Cawdron as French Mate on 'Witch of Endor'

James Kenney as Midshipman Longley

James Robertson Justice as Seaman Quist

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

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