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Once a Sinner (1950) Lewis Gilbert, Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling, Joy Shelton
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross (Jack Watling) is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James (Pat Kirkwood). Read More »
The Admirable Crichton (1957) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household Read More »
Cosh Boy (1953) Lewis Gilbert, James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Read More »
Seven Nights in Japan (1976) Lewis Gilbert, Michael York, Hidemi Aoki, Charles Gray
The fictional British royal Prince George travels to Japan and falls in love with a local female tour guide named Sumi. Read More »
Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) Lewis Gilbert, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War II. Read More »
A Cry from the Streets (1958) Lewis Gilbert, Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray, Colin Petersen
Max Bygraves and Barbara Murray star in this hard-hitting and bittersweet story about London’s unwanted children – and the good people trying to help them. Read More »
Loss of Innocence / The Greengage Summer (1961) Lewis Gilbert, Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Comedy, Drama, Romance
When she arrives in the French region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teen-ager. Read More »
Light Up the Sky! (1960) Lewis Gilbert, Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Benny Hill, Comedy, Drama
Lewis Gilbert’s classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Read More »
The 7th Dawn (1964) Lewis Gilbert, William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Adventure, Drama, War
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) Lewis Gilbert, Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Action, Adventure, Drama
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He’s sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad’s papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. It’s all one long, lazy voyage for Conrad until one fateful trip when an encounter with a typhoon and pirates forces Conrad to choose between an aimless drifter’s life and becoming a man again.
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