Categorised as a British World War II propaganda film this less known example is a superb work Read More »
Tag Archives: Sidney Gilliat
Green for Danger (1946) Sidney Gilliat, Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard
In a rural English hospital during WWII, a postman dies on the operating table. Read More »
State Secret (1950) Sidney Gilliat, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins
Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country Read More »
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) Sidney Gilliat, Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan Read More »
The Rake’s Progress (1945) Sidney Gilliat, Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford Read More »
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) Sidney Gilliat, Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Crime, Drama
Oliver Bramwell, an insurance inspector, arrives at Lewis Manor where he is to investigate a fire that broke out there on Christmas Eve. Read More »
Endless Night (1972) Sidney Gilliat, Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Crime, Drama, Horror
Michael Rogers is a chauffeur with little money, but big dreams. Foremost of these is building his dream house on the perfect piece of land. Read More »
Only Two Can Play (1962) Sidney Gilliat, Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Comedy, Drama
John Lewis is bored by his librarian’s job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town – if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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Left Right and Centre (1959) Sidney Gilliat, Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, Patricia Bredin, Comedy, Romance
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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