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1. 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: 12,400
2. 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: 8,323 | Gross: $6.54M
3. 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: 5,849 | Gross: $6.00M
4. 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: 3,380
5. 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: 3,138
6. 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: 3,036
7. 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: 2,994
8. 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: 2,432
9. 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: 2,195
10. 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: 1,994
11. 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: 1,933
12. 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: 1,861
13. 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: 1,341
14. 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: 765
15. 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
16. 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: 371
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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: 278
21. 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: 272
22. 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: 242
23. 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: 237
24. 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: 237
25. 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
26. 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: 213
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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: 153
33. 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: 134
34.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Sorcerer
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychologist is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish the task.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Phil Brown, Gerard Heinz
Votes: 115
35. 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
36. 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: 105
37. 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
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
41. 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
42. 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: 79
43.
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
44. 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
45.
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
46.
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
47. 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
48.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Silver Curtain
(1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
How did Davos end up with a knife in his back? The murder happened behind the "silver curtain" of spray from a fountain. He was alone with Jerry Winton in a dead end alley, but Winton didn't do it. Can Col. March unravel the mystery?
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Anton Diffring, Christine Pollon
Votes: 67
49.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Talking Head
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 12 year old boy insists his dead father told him to kill his mother's new fiancée.
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Hugh Williams, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 67
50.
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