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6.4

♡ 6

Michael Anderson Director

Duncan Lamont as 3rd Engineer On Ship

Michael Brennan as Engineer

Robert Newton as Peter McCabe

Arthur Hambling as Police Sergeant

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

Lust for a Vampire

1971

5.7

♡ 19

33%

Jimmy Sangster Director

Barbara Jefford as Countess Herritzen

Nick Brimble as First Villager

Michael Brennan as Landlord

Luan Peters as Trudi

In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but also with the headmaster who is desperate to become Mircalla's disciple, and the equally besotted and even more foolish author Richard Lestrange.

The Lady with a Lamp

1951

6.4

♡ 6

based on play or musical

Herbert Wilcox Director

Gordon Jackson as Dr. Anson

Nigel Stock as George Winch

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sidney Herbert

Michael Brennan as Purveyor

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

Mister V

1941

7.2

♡ 14

77%

Leslie Howard Director

Michael Brennan as Camp Guard with Lantern

Roland Pertwee as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith

Arthur Hambling as Jordan

Michael Rennie as Prison Camp Officer

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

Just Like a Woman

1967

5.3

♡ 3

Comedy

Robert Fuest Director

Ray Barrett as Australian

Dennis Price as Bathroom Salesman

Michael Brennan as Commissionaire

Francis Matthews as Lewis McKenzie

Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!

Woman Times Seven

1967

5.8

♡ 17

34%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Paul Frees as Dubbing

Alan Arkin as Fred

Michael Caine as Handsome Stranger

Michael Brennan as (segment "At The Opera")

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

The Girl Hunters

1963

5.9

♡ 2

35%

Roy Rowland Director

Hal Galili as Bouncer

Lloyd Nolan as Federal Agent Arthur Rickerby

Shirley Eaton as Laura Knapp

Michael Brennan as Policeman

Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker

Doomwatch

1972

5.5

♡ 7

20%

Peter Sasdy Director

Jeremy Child as David Broome

Ian Bannen as Dr. Del Shaw

Geoffrey Keen as Sir Henry Leyton

Michael Brennan as Tom Straker

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Johnny Nobody

1961

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...

Nothing But the Night

1973

5.5

♡ 5

33%

Peter Sasdy Director

Michael Brennan as Deck Hand

Duncan Lamont as Dr. Knight

Morris Perry as Dr. Yeats

Peter Cushing as Sir Mark Ashley

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

Brighton Rock

1948

♡ 9

95%

85%

brighton, england

brighton, england, uk

John Boulting Director

Michael Brennan as Crabbe

Nigel Stock as Cubitt

Alan Wheatley as Fred Hale

Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

The 39 Steps

1959

6.6

♡ 8

68%

Ralph Thomas Director

Michael Brennan as Detective on Train

Harry Towb as Harold

Duncan Lamont as Kennedy

Sam Kydd as Train Steward

In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

Circle of Danger

1951

6.5

♡ 4

38%

Jacques Tourneur Director

Michael Brennan as Bert Oakshott

Ray Milland as Clay Douglas

Peter Butterworth as Ernie

Marjorie Fielding as Margaret McArran

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.

Trouble in Store

1953

6.6

♡ 3

71%

Comedy

John Paddy Carstairs Director

Michael Brennan as Davis

Joan Sims as Edna

Stringer Davis as Shop Assistant

Aileen Lewis as Shopper

Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

Ivanhoe

1952

6.7

♡ 11

79%

64%

Adventure

Richard Thorpe Director

Michael Brennan as Baldwin

Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe

Guy Rolfe as Prince John

Joan Fontaine as Rowena

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Tom Jones

1963

6.4

♡ 13

83%

58%

Adventure

breaking the fourth wall

Tony Richardson Director

David Warner as Blifil

Michael Brennan as Jailer at Newgate

Julian Glover as Northernton

Susannah York as Sophie Western

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

1960

7.1

♡ 6

100%

52%