I.R.A. member Terry (Sir John Mills) modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. Read More »
Tag Archives: Basil Dearden
Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942) Basil Dearden, Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney
Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent Read More »
Masquerade (1965) Basil Dearden, Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince. Read More »
Violent Playground (1958) Basil Dearden, Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum
Struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a young and dangerous pyromaniac. Read More »
Man in the Moon (1960) Basil Dearden, Kenneth More, Shirley Anne Field, Norman Bird, Comedy, Romance
Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon. Read More »
The League of Gentlemen (1960) Basil Dearden, Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Read More »
The Green Man (1956) Robert Day, Basil Dearden, Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Comedy
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. Read More »
Sapphire (1959) Basil Dearden, Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London racial hostility to Commonweath immigrants is openly paraded. A pregnant girl, initially assumed to be white, is murdered. Read More »
Khartoum (1966) Basil Dearden, Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880’s, the British government is in a quandary. Read More »
Out of the Clouds (1955) Basil Dearden, Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight
A busy day at London Airport. Follow the lives and loves of the crew and passengers. Read More »