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 Virgin Soldiers

1969

English

6.1

♡ 6

43%

Action

based on novel or book

John Dexter Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Bandmaster

Christopher Timothy as Cpl. Brook

Nigel Patrick as R.S.M. Raskin

Roy Holder as 'The Virgin Soldiers' - Fenwick

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.

Seven Hills of Rome

1957

English

5.8

♡ 2

Roy Rowland Director

Peggie Castle as Carol Ralston

Carlo Rizzo as Director of Ulpia Club

Mario Lanza as Marc Revere

Nigel Patrick as Narrator

After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.

Silver Bears

1977

English

6.0

♡ 6

35%

Action

Comedy

Crime

Ivan Passer Director

David Warner as Agha Firdausi

Michael Caine as Doc Fletcher

Nigel Patrick as Financial Mediator

Edward Duke as Stockbroker

Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.

Young Wives' Tale

1951

English

5.5

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Romance

Henry Cass Director

Brian Oulton as Man in pub

Fabia Drake as Nanny Blott

Athene Seyler as Nanny Gallop

Nigel Patrick as Rodney Pennant

A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.

The Browning Version

1951

English

8.0

♡ 17

89%

95%

Action

Drama

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Frobisher

Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter

Jean Kent as Millie Crocker-Harris

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

1951

English

6.9

♡ 5

68%

matador (bullfighter)

Albert Lewin Director

James Mason as Hendrik van der Zee

Abraham Sofaer as Judge

Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds

Nigel Patrick as Stephen Cameron

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

The League of Gentlemen

1960

English

7.2

♡ 8

83%

Basil Dearden Director

Nigel Green as Kissing Man in Truck

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Police Superintendent - Final Scene

Nigel Patrick as Race

Patrick Jordan as Sergeant

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

Johnny Nobody

1961

English

6.4

♡ 2

Nigel Patrick Director

Nigel Patrick as Father Carey

William Bendix as James Ronald Mulcahy

Aldo Ray as Johnny Nobody

Michael Brennan as Supt. Lynch

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls questions of belief raised by the case. And then, the good father learns a little more about Johnny Nobody...

The Sound Barrier

1952

English

6.7

♡ 6

80%

David Lean Director

Denholm Elliott as Christopher Ridgefield

Leslie Phillips as Controller

Ralph Michael as Fletcher

Nigel Patrick as Tony Garthwaite

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960

English

7.1

♡ 6

100%

52%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

london, england

male friendship

sex scandal

Ken Hughes Director

Meredith Edwards as Auctioneer

David Langton as Frank

Michael Brennan as Queensbury's Friend at Auction

Nigel Patrick as Sir Edward Clarke

England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.

Tales from the Crypt

1972

English

6.8

♡ 35

90%

Freddie Francis Director

Peter Cushing as Arthur Edward Grimsdyke

Nigel Patrick as Major William Rogers

Oliver MacGreevy as Maniac in Santa Suit

Clifford Earl as Police Sergeant

Five strangers encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper while viewing old catacombs in the English countryside. Through a series of terrifying stories, each one learns their fate.

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