Dark comedy about a seaside Punch and Judy man driven to distraction by his social climbing wife and his hatred for the snobbery of local government. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sylvia Syms
East of Sudan (1964) Nathan Juran, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds
During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams Read More »
No Trees in the Street (1959) J. Lee Thompson, Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard
Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s. Read More »
Asylum (1972) Roy Ward Baker, Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms
A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. Read More »
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) J. Lee Thompson, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. Read More »
No Time for Tears (1957) Cyril Frankel, Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. Read More »
Give Us Tomorrow (1978) Donovan Winter, Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, James Kerry, Crime, Drama
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank. Read More »
The Birthday Present (1957) Pat Jackson, Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms, Jack Watling, Drama
A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife’s birthday. Read More »
Flame in the Streets (1961) Roy Ward Baker, John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda de Banzie, Drama
A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. Read More »
Bachelor of Hearts (1958) Wolf Rilla, Hardy Krüger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Comedy
German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann. Read More »
The Moonraker (1958) David MacDonald, George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Victim (1961) Basil Dearden, Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A plea for reform of England’s anti-sodomy statutes, this film pits Melville Farr, a married lawyer Read More »
Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) J. Lee Thompson, Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Drama, Romance
Amy and Jim Preston have been married for twenty years but, in her husband’s eyes, she has become sloppy both about the house and herself. Read More »
Expresso Bongo (1959) Val Guest, Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Drama, Music
Johnny Jackson, a sleazy talent agent, discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Read More »
The World of Suzie Wong (1960) Richard Quine, William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Sylvia Syms, Drama, Romance
Robert Lomax, tired of working in an office, wants to be an artist. So he moves to Hong Kong to try his hand at painting. Finding a cheap hotel, he checks in, only to find it’s used by prostitutes and their “dates” they meet in the bar downstairs. Since he never picks up any of the ladies, they all want to know more about him. Eventually, he does hire one to model for him… and soon falls in love. However, since he’s on a limited budget, he can’t afford her exclusively, but doesn’t want to “share” her with anyone else.
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