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Of Human Bondage (1964) Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway, Bryan Forbes, Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley
Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Read More »
The Stepford Wives (1975) Bryan Forbes, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson
The Stepford Wives is about a small suburb where the women happily go about their housework Read More »
King Rat (1965) Bryan Forbes, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Read More »
Wheel of Fate (1953) Francis Searle, Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes
Two brothers work in their invalid father’s repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. Read More »
The L-Shaped Room (1962) Bryan Forbes, Leslie Caron, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Jane, a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house Read More »
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) Bryan Forbes, Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
Myra and Billy Savage are a married couple living in London. Read More »
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976) Bryan Forbes, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Read More »
The Raging Moon (1971) Bryan Forbes, Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Drama, Romance
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. Read More »
Deadfall (1968) Bryan Forbes, Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Crime, Drama
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
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The Naked Face (1984) Bryan Forbes, Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Action, Mystery, Thriller
Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince cops Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould of his innocence, Dr.Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself, and he finds himself up against one of the city’s most notorious Mafia kingpins.
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The Slipper and the Rose (1976) Bryan Forbes, Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are most anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love. Meanwhile, young Cinderella finds life drastically altered with her father’s death as she’s forced to be a servant in her own house. But a cheery fairy godmother helps her with her impossible tasks, and even gets her to take an evening out at the King’s bride-finding ball. But when the magic wears off, and the prince with shoe-in-hand searches for Cinderella and finds her, what is going to happen to Euphrania without the needed marriage alliance to prevent war?
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The Wrong Box (1966) Bryan Forbes, John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson
A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.
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