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1. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 8,334 | Gross: $6.54M
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,420
3. Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Eric Pohlmann, Doris Nolan
Votes: 312
4. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 3,156
5. The Grass Is Greener (1960)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Victor and Hilary have guided tours in their English mansion. A US oil tycoon "bumps" into Hilary during a tour and charms his way into her heart. Meanwhile, Hattie pursues Victor.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons
Votes: 5,857 | Gross: $6.00M
6. Paradise Lagoon (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam and his family and servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
Votes: 1,999
7. I Became a Criminal (1947)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, Rene Ray
Votes: 1,945
8. Reach for the Sky (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson
Votes: 2,997
9. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock
Votes: 3,041
10. Another Man's Poison (1951)
TV-G | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel
Votes: 3,392
11. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé
Votes: 2,435
12. The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
After inadvertently stopping an Indian attack on his stagecoach while traveling in the American West, an English gentleman finds himself appointed sheriff of a nearby town.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 1,348
13. Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey
Votes: 1,862
14. Loss of Innocence (1961)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Claude Nollier
Votes: 599
15. Child's Play (1954)
68 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A science-fiction film about children who manage to split the atom and thereby create a new form of popcorn.
Director: Margaret Thomson | Stars: Mona Washbourne, Peter Martyn, Dorothy Alison, Ingeborg von Kusserow
Votes: 155
16. No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she's a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Her cold emotional state is in ... See full summary »
Director: St. John Legh Clowes | Stars: Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham
Votes: 767
17. Seven Days to Noon (1950)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Barry Jones, André Morell, Olive Sloane, Sheila Manahan
Votes: 2,197
18. The Beasts of Marseilles (1957)
70 min | Drama, Romance, War
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German-occupied France.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Wright
Votes: 372
19. Two Left Feet (1965)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
Every time Alan Crabbe tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a stumble. But then he meets Eileen, who signals unmistakable messages at Alan with her large, inviting eyes.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Michael Crawford, Nyree Dawn Porter, Julia Foster, David Hemmings
Votes: 82
20. The Frightened Man (1952)
Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama
The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks ... See full summary »
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe
Votes: 197
21. Skywatch (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A comedy drama set in a WWII British Army Searchlight Squad. They are an odd bunch of misfits but somehow manage to get the job done.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Benny Hill, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 317
22. The Quiet Woman (1951)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Coastal pub proprietress is inveigled into a smuggling plot.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour
Votes: 238
23. The Hundred Hour Hunt (1952)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scotland Yard is mobilised in the hunt for blood donors in a race to save a dying girl.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Freddie Mills
Votes: 214
24. Mystery at the Burlesque (1949)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Eliot Makeham
Votes: 135
25. The Hideout (1948)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A husband and wife stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.
Director: Fergus McDonell | Stars: Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel, David Greene
Votes: 238
26. Date with a Dream (1948)
55 min | Comedy, Romance
Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
Director: Dicky Leeman | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Jeannie Carson, Len Lowe, Bill Lowe
Votes: 81
27. We Joined the Navy (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
This is the story of the riotous, romantic, exciting, astonishing and highly entertaining adventures of Lieutenant Commander "Bodger" Badger, R.N. (Kenneth More). An exceptionally likeable fellow, the Badger has one besetting sin, a shining honesty.
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien, Mischa Auer
Votes: 243
28. Miss Robin Hood (1952)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Crime
Henry Wrigley (Richard Hearne) is happy writing stories for a children's' comic. Then he meets Miss Honey (Dame Margaret Rutherford), who encourages him to go into minor crime.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Edward Lexy, Fanny Rowe
Votes: 327
29. Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
The castle ghost helps the lady and the lawyer beat off developers.
Director: Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Richard Bird, Edward Rigby, Esma Cannon, Ivor Barnard
Votes: 212
30. Raising a Riot (1955)
90 min | Comedy
Tony Kent returns home after 3 years in the Navy to find his children are strangers. After his wife is suddenly called away, Tony takes his brood to his father's windmill home where he tries to bond with Peter, Anne and Fusty.
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: Kenneth More, Shelagh Fraser, Mandy Miller, Gary Billings
Votes: 59
31. Blackout (1950)
Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A blind man's sight is restored in time to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's dead (or is he) brother and a gang of currency smugglers.
Director: Robert S. Baker | Stars: Maxwell Reed, Dinah Sheridan, Patric Doonan, Kynaston Reeves
Votes: 279
32. Salute the Toff (1951)
75 min | Crime, Drama
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Roddy Hughes, Wally Patch
Votes: 106
33. Patrol Car (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Dramatization of murder investigations and other criminal cases that Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian, a real-life Scotland Yard Inspector and the host of the show, worked on.
Stars: Bruce Seton, Robert Raglan, Philip Dale, Jack Melford
Votes: 23
34. The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)
76 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
Director: Alan Bromly | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Diane Cilento, Robert Eddison, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 274
35. Scotch on the Rocks (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote community in the Scottish Highlands where the residents are protesting at their poor links with the outside world. After a few days amongst ... See full summary »
Director: John Eldridge | Stars: Ronald Squire, Kathleen Ryan, Raymond Huntley, Sebastian Shaw
Votes: 179
36. Forbidden (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Thriller
An ex-serviceman plans to escape his faithless wife.
Director: George King | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke, Garry Marsh
Votes: 216
37. The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
War time drama. Lili will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Starring Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott and Sid James.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Sidney James, Gabrielle Brune
Votes: 49
38. No Trace (1950)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama
1950. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Writer Robert Southley finds his lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate. Stars Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan & John Laurie.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Dora Bryan
Votes: 201
39. An Evening with the Royal Ballet (1963)
85 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Anthony Havelock-Allan | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, David Blair, Antoinette Sibley
Votes: 30
40. Paper Orchid (1949)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery set in the newspaper industry.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell, Sidney James, Garry Marsh
Votes: 67
41. She Shall Have Murder (1950)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Rosamund John, Derrick De Marney, Mary Jerrold, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 8
42. Home Sweet Home (1945)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
Frank's wife has quads, his lodger is in love with her boss's son. She runs away to be a nightclub singer. Frank and his friends rescue her from the clutches of the lounge lizard nightclub owner.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Nicolette Roeg, Anthony Pendrell, H.F. Maltby
Votes: 40
43. True as a Turtle (1957)
96 min | Comedy
Newlywed Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle,... See full summary »
Director: Wendy Toye | Stars: John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn, Keith Michell
Votes: 156
44. The Master of Bankdam (1947)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Tom Walls, Stephen Murray
Votes: 94
45. Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949)
69 min | Comedy
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Chili Bouchier, Willer Neal
Votes: 73
46. Devil on Horseback (1954)
88 min | Drama
A young jockey is determined to win whatever the cost, but finds that there are more important things than success.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jeremy Spenser, Liam Redmond
Votes: 29
47. Tread Softly (1952)
Not Rated | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The star of a London musical walks out before the curtain up, but the show must go on in a haunted theatre, The Regency. 40 years previously, the star of Hamlet was murdered, and more are dying to keep a dark secret.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Laurie, Olaf Olsen
Votes: 113
48. Edge of Divorce (1953)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. They underestimate the effect of their ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott
Votes: 60
49. Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1949)
82 min | Comedy
An young American lady arrives in Britain to advise on factory working practices and ends up embroiled in a local battle that evokes the spirit of magna Carta.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Michael Rennie, Yolande Donlan, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones
Votes: 31
50. Cheer the Brave (1951)
62 min | Comedy
Director: Kenneth Hume | Stars: Elsie Randolph, Jack McNaughton, Geoffrey Keen, Marie Ault
Votes: 19