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1. The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Directors: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney
Votes: 1,157
2. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,231
3. The Blue Lagoon (1949)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones
Votes: 653
4. Endless Night (I) (1972)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 2,417
5. No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
An aeronautical engineer predicts that a new model of plane will fail catastrophically and in a novel manner after a specific number flying hours.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 4,475
6. She Played with Fire (1957)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother
Votes: 867
7. 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: 310
8. The Green Man (1956)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
Directors: Robert Day, Basil Dearden | Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
Votes: 2,328
9. The Virgin Soldiers (1969)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A group of young British soldiers billeted in Singapore of the year 1950 dreaming about winning the love of the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major.
Director: John Dexter | Stars: Lynn Redgrave, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 478
10. A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The British and Soviet Intelligence services attempt to out-fox one another using the homesick double-agent Krasnevin a.k.a. Alexander Eberlin as a pawn in a complex spy-game which takes place in Berlin.
Directors: Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,293
11. Big Time Operators (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
A young couple inherits a debt-ridden old movie theater, appropriately nicknamed "The Flea Pit", and the three eccentric senior citizens who work there.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers
Votes: 2,266
12. Bikini Baby (1951)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
An unsophisticated and impressionable young girl finds herself in trouble after winning a beauty pageant.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Pauline Stroud
Votes: 409
13. The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy
The hellions of St. Trinians are recruited to a sheik's harem. Little does he know what he's letting himself in for.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Eric Barker
Votes: 991
14. Priest of Love (1981)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Ava Gardner, Penelope Keith
Votes: 522
15. The Great Manhunt (1950)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Walter Rilla
Votes: 821
16. The Buttercup Chain (1970)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. Two decades later, they fight their unrequited love, each taking lovers who eventually fall for each other.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jane Asher, Sven-Bertil Taube
Votes: 172
17. Only Two Can Play (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 1,418
18. Wee Geordie (1955)
93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Geordie is a very small boy who feels that the girl he loves is ignoring him because of his size. He decides to take a correspondence course in body-building. At 21, Geordie becomes one of the tallest and strongest men in Scotland.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Alastair Sim, Paul Young, Norah Gorsen
Votes: 929
19. Ring of Treason (1964)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, a RN warrant officer stationed in the British Embassy in Warsaw leaks secrets to his Polish girlfriend who's a Soviet agent and after his transfer to a naval station in Britain he joins a Soviet spy ring.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff
Votes: 474
20. Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy
The girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Alastair Sim
Votes: 1,423
21. Captain Boycott (1947)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, History
In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim
Votes: 430
22. Left Right and Centre (1959)
95 min | 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Patricia Bredin, Eric Barker, Jack Hedley, Leslie Dwyer
Votes: 383
23. Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
Not Rated | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green
Votes: 270
24. The Bridal Path (1959)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Bill Travers, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 297
25. The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
In this made-for-television spoof, Robin Hood and his merry men must attempt to gather together the necessary ransom money to free King Richard from a nasty Duke.
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: George Segal, Morgan Fairchild, Roddy McDowall, Janet Suzman
Votes: 164
26. Windbag the Sailor (1936)
87 min | Comedy
A bragging sea captain's maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is coerced into commanding an ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden
Votes: 432
27. 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
28. Smiley Gets a Gun (1958)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A sequel to the movie Smiley (1956). Young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others, so that he can earn a new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Chips Rafferty, Keith Calvert, Bruce Archer
Votes: 127
29. Joey Boy (1965)
91 min | Comedy, War
Busted for running an illegal gambling den during the Second World War, a gang of East End wideboys choose conscription over prison and take their talents on a tour of duty.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser, Percy Herbert
Votes: 68
30. 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
31. Hey! Hey! U.S.A! (1938)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
Dr Twist has to pose on a liner as a famous professor and is asked to tutor Bernie, the son of a millionaire. To avoid awkward US immigration questions, Twist enlists the help of a gangster... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy, David Burns, Edmon Ryan
Votes: 244
32. The Amorous Mr. Prawn (1962)
89 min | Comedy
General and Lady Fitzadam live at a remote army outpost in Scotland, their last assignment before the General retires. The General is sent abroad and in his absence, Lady Fitzadam decides ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price
Votes: 193
33. Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
89 min | Comedy
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his uniform is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp. When he cleans it a genie appears.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox
Votes: 141
34. Would You Believe It! (1929)
60 min | Comedy
An inventor who develops a tank that can be operated by remote control finds himself pursued by foreign agents who want the plans and the tank.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Walter Forde, Pauline Johnson, Arthur Stratton, Albert Brouett
Votes: 10
35.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
At Night All Cats Are Gray
(1954)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A French model asks for Colonel March's help just hours before she's found murdered.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Christopher Lee, Fanny Rowe
Votes: 94
36.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Death and the Other Monkey
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A biologist is convinced that his test monkey was not only stolen but replaced.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Percy Marmont, Gudrun Ure
Votes: 57
37.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Death in Inner Space
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At an isolated château outside Paris, a scientist insists he's received radio waves emanating from the planet Mars.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Karel Stepanek, Peter Illing, Rosalie Crutchley
Votes: 64
38.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Murder Is Permanent
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The owner of a beauty salon is found stabbed to death.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Elspet Gray, Margaret Halstan
Votes: 55
39.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Passage at Arms
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A French fencing team are involved in a London murder case.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Eric Pohlmann, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 52
40.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Present Tense
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
March's niece witnesses her husband die in a plane crash. Soon after she begins to complain she can hear his voice in the night and others in the house become convinced her husband has returned as a ghost.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Mary Parker, Phil Brown
Votes: 91
41.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Error at Daybreak
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A shady businessman collapses on an oceanside jetty, the apparent victim of a heart attack, but a vacationing March discovers blood and a needle near the body.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Robert Brown, Patricia Marmont
Votes: 74
42.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Abominable Snowman
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Members of a Britsh mountain climbing club are seemingly terrorized by an abominable snow man after film of tracks belonging to the creature are released. March struggles to accept the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Doris Nolan, Ivan Craig
Votes: 91
43.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Kidnapped Poodle
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March is called in to investigate the theft of a valuable diamond as well as a poodle. As he continues his investigation he begins to think both incidents may be connected.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Doris Nolan, Michael Shepley
Votes: 69
44.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Lively Ghost
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A phony spiritualist believes she's truly summoned a real ghost.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Virginia Downing, Genine Graham
Votes: 51
45.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Misguided Missal
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 15th century prayer volume disappears from a sealed casket inside the locked safe belonging to an Oxford Don.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Jane Griffiths, John Arnatt
Votes: 51
46.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Deadly Gift
(1956)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pretty barmaid receives an unusual Christmas gift, a music box from a thief dead for ten years.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sandra Dorne, George Coulouris
Votes: 55
47.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Devil Sells His Soul
(1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March uses hypnosis to crack the case of a stabbing murder.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Patrick Barr, Ann Hanslip
Votes: 63
48.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Headless Hat
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March is on holidays in France when he meets an old friend from the French police who tells him of a murder at the docks. The French suspect he was a smuggler who had English ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Betty Paul, Marne Maitland
Votes: 65
49.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Invisible Knife
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
March must solve the mystery of how a man could be stabbed to death by an invisible knife.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Hubert Gregg, Henryetta Edwards
Votes: 68
50.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Missing Link
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scotland Yard is baffled by the attempted theft of a museum's prized exhibit of the skull of 'Damascus Man.'
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Stuart Lindsell, Helen Cherry
Votes: 54