A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

The Unholy

1988

English

5.1

♡ 10

25%

Camilo Vila Director

Peter Frechette as Claude

Ruben Rabasa as Father Dennis

Trevor Howard as Father Silva

William Russ as Luke

A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.

Who?

1974

English

5.8

♡ 2

Jack Gold Director

Trevor Howard as Colonel Azarin

James Noble as General Deptford

Bruce Boa as Miller

Elliott Gould as Sean Rogers

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

English

6.5

♡ 6

44%

José Ferrer Director

Trevor Howard as Captain Hugh Thompson

Christopher Lee as Commander Dick Raikes - Submarine Commander

Anthony Newley as Marine Clarke

Sam Kydd as Truck Driver

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

Pickup Alley

1957

English

6.2

♡ 6

38%

John Gilling Director

Aileen Lewis as Airline Passenger at Customs

Trevor Howard as Frank McNally

Kevin Stoney as Policeman

Cyril Shaps as Warden

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.

Operation Crossbow

1965

English

6.6

♡ 15

75%

Michael Anderson Director

John Le Mesurier as British Army Officer

Carl Duering as German Officer Arriving at Rocket Plant

Trevor Howard as Professor Frederick Lindemann

Gordon Jackson as R.A.F. Pilot

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Odette

1950

English

6.8

♡ 7

47%

1940s

Action

based on a true story

Herbert Wilcox Director

Trevor Howard as Captain Peter Churchill / Raoul

Fritz Wendhausen as Colonel

Peter Ustinov as Lt. Alex Rabinovich / Arnauld

Anna Neagle as Odette Sansom / Lise

The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)

The Liquidator

1965

English

5.9

♡ 13

59%

Jack Cardiff Director

Jo Rowbottom as Betty

Trevor Howard as Colonel Mostyn

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Mac

Aileen Lewis as Restaurant Patron

Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.

Johnny in the Clouds

1945

English

7.3

♡ 4

77%

Anthony Asquith Director

Douglass Montgomery as Johnny Hollis

Joyce Carey as Miss Winterton

Trevor Howard as Sq / Leader Carter

Basil Radford as Tiny Williams

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

Sons and Lovers

1960

English

7.1

♡ 8

67%

49%

Action

based on novel or book

Jack Cardiff Director

Patsy Smart as Emma

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Leivers

Dean Stockwell as Paul Morel

Trevor Howard as Walter Morel

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1966

English

5.2

♡ 10

33%

Henry Levin Director

Angie Dickinson as Linda Benson

Bessie Love as Minor Role

Trevor Howard as Sam Lincoln

Gilbert Roland as Serge Marko

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Bikini Baby

1951

English

5.8

♡ 5

Frank Launder Director

Aileen Lewis as Diner in foreground

Trevor Howard as Guest at Theater Accepting Program

Alastair Sim as Hawtrey Murington - Optimum Films

Dennis Price as Simon Abott

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.

Kidnapped

1971

English

6.2

♡ 9

100%

based on novel or book

Delbert Mann Director

Michael Caine as Alan Breck

Gordon Jackson as Charles Stewart

Trevor Howard as Lord Advocate

Peter Jeffrey as Riach

Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he cannot claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck, a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British.

The Key

1958

English

6.7

♡ 7

58%

Carol Reed Director

Trevor Howard as Captain Chris Ford

Michael Caine as Seaman

Sophia Loren as Stella

Aileen Lewis as Woman With Baby in Air Raid Shelter

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

The Case of the Three Sided Dream

2014

English

7.4

♡ 6

jazz singer or musician

Music

Adam Kahan Director

Ed Sullivan as Self

Trevor Howard as Self

Dick Cavett as Self

Dick Griffin as Self

The documentary film on the life and legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk – a one of a kind musician, personality, activist and windmill slayer who despite being blind, becoming paralyzed, and facing America’s racial injustices - did not relent.

Sword of the Valiant

1984

English

4.4

♡ 4

30%

Action

Adventure

based on song, poem or rhyme

Stephen Weeks Director

Peter Cushing as Seneschal - Gaspar

Peter Firth as Sir Gawain

Sean Connery as The Green Knight

Trevor Howard as The King

Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the land, learning about life, saving damsels, and solving the Green Knight's riddle.

The Missionary

1982

English

6.2

♡ 5

100%

44%

Action

Comedy

Richard Loncraine Director

Maggie Smith as Lady Isabel Ames

Roland Culver as Lord Fermleigh

Trevor Howard as Lord Henry Ames

Janine Duvitski as Millicent, Ames' Maid

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.

The Sea Wolves

1980

English

6.3

♡ 2

42%

Action

ambush

based on a true story

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Gregory Peck as Colonel Lewis Pugh

John Standing as Finley

Trevor Howard as Jack Cartwright

Wolf Kahler as Trompeta

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.

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.

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971

English

7.1

♡ 7

67%

Charles Jarrott Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as Duc De Guise

Timothy Dalton as Henry, Lord Darnley

Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth

Trevor Howard as William Cecil

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

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The Unholy

Who?

The Cockleshell Heroes

Pickup Alley

Operation Crossbow

Odette

The Liquidator

Johnny in the Clouds

Sons and Lovers

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

Bikini Baby

Kidnapped

The Key

The Case of the Three Sided Dream

Sword of the Valiant

The Missionary

The Sea Wolves

Outcast of the Islands

Mary, Queen of Scots