English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

The Captive Heart

1946

English

7.0

♡ 11

72%

Basil Dearden Director

Ralph Michael as Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

Gordon Jackson as Lieut. Lennox

Basil Radford as Major Ossy Dalrymple

Sam Kydd as POW in Top Bunk

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 soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

The Goose Steps Out

1942

English

6.5

♡ 5

33%

Action

Comedy

ealing

Basil Dearden Director

Julien Mitchell as Gen. Von Goltz

Barry Morse as Kurt

John Williams as Maj. Bishop

Walter Gotell as SS Guard

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

The Blue Lamp

1950

English

6.8

♡ 7

83%

Basil Dearden Director

Sam Kydd as Bookmakers Assistant at White City

Arnold Bell as Hospital Doctor

Jennifer Jayne as June

Meredith Edwards as PC 'Taff' Hughes

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 the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

All Night Long

1962

English

7.1

♡ 6

71%

Basil Dearden Director

Betsy Blair as Emily

Geoffrey Holder as Himself

Harry Towb as Phales

Richard Attenborough as Rod Hamilton

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.

Big Time Operators

1957

English

6.9

♡ 9

69%

Basil Dearden Director

Jimmy Charters as Bijou Cinema Patron

Stringer Davis as Fred Emmett

Liz Fraser as Girl in Cinema

Leslie Phillips as Robin Carter

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 has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

The Halfway House

1944

English

6.6

♡ 7

96%

Basil Dearden Director

Tom Walls as Capt. Meadows

Alec Mango as Man at hotel bar

Roland Pertwee as Prison Governor

Mervyn Johns as Rhys

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?

The Square Ring

1953

English

6.5

♡ 6

Basil Dearden Director

Joan Sims as Bunty

Ronald Lewis as Eddie Lloyd

Kay Kendall as Eve

Alfie Bass as Frank Forbes

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

The Mind Benders

1963

English

6.4

♡ 7

27%

Basil Dearden Director

Wendy Craig as Annabella

Geoffrey Keen as Calder

Michael Bryant as Dr. Danny Tate

Roger Delgado as Dr. Jean Bonvoulois

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

The Green Man

1956

English

7.1

♡ 6

80%

Basil Dearden Director

Richard Wattis as Doctor

Alastair Sim as Hawkins

Arthur Lowe as Radio Salesman

Michael Ripper as Waiter

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.

Who Done It?

1956

English

5.7

♡ 6

44%

Basil Dearden Director

Arthur Lowe as Bit Part

Stratford Johns as P.C. Coleman

Thorley Walters as Raymond Courtney

Ernest Thesiger as Sir Walter

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 detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

Dead of Night

1945

English

7.5

♡ 19

96%

Basil Dearden Director

Roland Culver as Eliot Foley

Basil Radford as George Parratt

Googie Withers as Joan Cortland

Ralph Michael as Peter Cortland

While seeking some architectural work at a country farmhouse, Walter Craig soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. He’s forced to listen to the bizarre tales of each guest while dreading the terrible end he knows is coming.

The Rainbow Jacket

1954

English

6.4

♡ 2

95%

Basil Dearden Director

Sam Kydd as Bruce

Honor Blackman as Monica

George Roderick as Racegoer at Epsom

Howard Marion-Crawford as Travers

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

Woman of Straw

1964

English

6.8

♡ 16

68%

Basil Dearden Director

Sean Connery as Anthony 'Tony' Richmond

Ralph Richardson as Charles Richmond

Alexander Knox as Detective Inspector Lomer

Michael Goodliffe as Solicitor

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

Masquerade

1965

English

5.5

♡ 2

40%

Basil Dearden Director

Roger Delgado as Ahmed Ben Faïd

Michel Piccoli as George Sarrassin

George Roderick as Officer at Circus

John Le Mesurier as Sir Robert

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

Nowhere to Go

1958

English

6.8

♡ 5

62%

Basil Dearden Director

Maggie Smith as Bridget Howard

Bessie Love as Harriet P. Jefferson

Geoffrey Keen as Inspector Scott

Howard Marion-Crawford as Mack Cameron

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

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.

Frieda

1947

English

7.1

♡ 4

Basil Dearden Director

Glynis Johns as Judy

Albert Lieven as Richard

David Farrar as Robert

Ray Jackson as Tony

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 helped him escape.

Walk in the Shadow

7.1

Basil Dearden Director

Norman Wooland as Counsel for the Crown

Michael Bryant as John's counsel

Basil Dignam as Lawyer Mapleton

Brian Wilde as Newspaper Photographer

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.

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.

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Khartoum

The Captive Heart

The Goose Steps Out

The Blue Lamp

All Night Long

Big Time Operators

The Halfway House

The Square Ring

The Mind Benders

The Green Man

Who Done It?

Dead of Night

The Rainbow Jacket

Woman of Straw

Masquerade

Nowhere to Go

The Gentle Gunman

Frieda

Walk in the Shadow

The League of Gentlemen