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Tag Archives: Guy Hamilton
The Mirror Crack’d (1980) Guy Hamilton, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson
The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead, home to Miss Jane Marple Read More »
Charley Moon (1956) Guy Hamilton, Max Bygraves, Dennis Price, Michael Medwin
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. Read More »
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) Guy Hamilton, Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley
An NYPD cop is ‘killed’ in an accident. The death is faked, and he is inducted into the organization CURE Read More »
Funeral in Berlin (1966) Guy Hamilton, Michael Caine, Oskar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall Read More »
The Devil’s Disciple (1959) Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon Read More »
Man in the Middle (1964) Guy Hamilton, Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan
Based on Howard Fast’s novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India Read More »
Battle of Britain (1969) Guy Hamilton, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews
Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two for control of the skies over Britain Read More »
An Inspector Calls (1954) Guy Hamilton, Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo
Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector Read More »
The Best of Enemies (1961) Guy Hamilton, David Niven, Alberto Sordi, Amedeo Nazzari, Adventure, Comedy, War
In 1941 the Italian and British forces face one another.Italian army Captain Blasi and his troops capture a British army Major Richardson and his pilot when their scout plane crashes. Read More »
The Intruder (1953) Guy Hamilton, Michael Ripper, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Williams, Drama, War
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former trooper from his tank regiment. Read More »
The Ringer (1952) Guy Hamilton, Herbert Lom, Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling, Mystery
‘The Ringer’ is an elusive criminal, reported dead in Australia but now thought to be alive in London. Read More »
A Touch of Larceny (1959) Guy Hamilton, James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles
In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and playboy precedes him. He meets an old comrade and his gorgeous fiancee, a Yankee widow. His buddy is quite wealthy and the retired captain realizes that he too must make plenty of dough to steal the woman away. He immediately engineers an elaborate quick money scheme. First he makes it seem as if he has become a traitor in order to get the newspapers to write bad things about him. He then plans to sue them all for libel. He leaves his phony trail and then maroons himself on a desert island. He is later rescued and interrogated by the Special Branch. Fortunately, he convinces them of his innocence and continues with his plan. He then goes to the woman’s home and is there discovered by his buddy. The friend sees that the two really are in love and gallantly bows out.
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