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1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
Votes: 50,697 | Gross: $7.50M
2. Casino Royale (1967)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy
In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
Directors: Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish, Richard Talmadge | Stars: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles
Votes: 32,478
3. The Ipcress File (1965)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Thriller
In London, a wisecracking spy investigates the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists while dealing with the constraints of his agency's bureaucracy.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Votes: 17,577
4. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,954 | Gross: $1.37M
5. Night School (1981)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder, Joseph R. Sicari
Votes: 3,251 | Gross: $1.17M
6. Sextette (1977)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, a glamorous silver screen sex symbol is asked to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis
Votes: 1,547
7. Shark (1969)
M | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
Directors: Samuel Fuller, Rafael Portillo | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Arthur Kennedy, Barry Sullivan, Silvia Pinal
Votes: 1,205
8. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
PG | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick
Votes: 1,118
9. Of Human Bondage (1964)
Approved | 100 min | Drama
A medical student becomes obsessed with his faithless lover.
Directors: Ken Hughes, Henry Hathaway, Bryan Forbes | Stars: Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Robert Morley, Siobhan McKenna
Votes: 1,100 | Gross: $3.82M
10. The Internecine Project (1974)
PG | 89 min | Action, Thriller
A retired intelligence agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: James Coburn, Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry
Votes: 1,087
11. Colditz (1972–1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at Colditz Castle and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors.
Stars: David McCallum, Richard Heffer, Paul Chapman, Jack Hedley
Votes: 1,021
12. The Long Haul (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson
Votes: 988
13. Town on Trial (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
At a local tennis club in a posh London suburb, an attractive but flirty young woman is murdered, prompting a Scotland Yard investigation.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates, Derek Farr
Votes: 847
14. Heat Wave (1954)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James, Susan Stephen
Votes: 808
15. Fall of Eagles (1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
Stars: Michael Hordern, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Gayle Hunnicutt
Votes: 667
16. Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Unrated | 100 min | Comedy, Crime
Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Votes: 660
17. Postmark for Danger (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen
Votes: 656
18. Wicked as They Come (1956)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A poor but beautiful woman sets her sights on rising to the top, and lets nothing stand in her way - including murder.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey, Herbert Marshall, Michael Goodliffe
Votes: 605
19. The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
107 min | Drama
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 560
20. The Atomic Man (1955)
PG | 76 min | Sci-Fi
A scientist is found floating with bullet and a radiation halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his double from destroying his experiments.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams
Votes: 441
21. Alfie Darling (1975)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
Alfie Elkins (Alan Price) returns, up to his old womanizing ways--until he meets his match in sophisticated magazine editor Abby Summers (Jill Townsend). His pursuit is complicated by his ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Alan Price, Jill Townsend, Paul Copley, Joan Collins
Votes: 419
22. Beyond Mombasa (1956)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell
Votes: 412
23. High Flight (1957)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, War
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Ray Milland, Bernard Lee, Kenneth Haigh, Anthony Newley
Votes: 289
24. Joe MacBeth (1955)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new "kingpin" himself. Success is short- lived, ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Paul Douglas, Ruth Roman, Bonar Colleano, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 275
25. The Deadliest Sin (1955)
74 min | Crime, Drama
A falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several killings and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he heard from one of the gang members.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Sydney Chaplin, Audrey Dalton, Jefferson Clifford, John Bentley
Votes: 203
26. The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A US agent protects a defecting Russian scientist in London as scientists are murdered. The agent finds the killers' hideout, is captured with a policeman's niece, escapes, and stops the killings.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier, John Horsley
Votes: 187
27. Wide Boy (1952)
67 min | Crime, Drama
Benny steals Caroline's purse and finds a letter revealing her affair with married surgeon Mannering. Benny blackmails them, leading to murder.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Melissa Stribling, Colin Tapley
Votes: 179
28. The Brain Machine (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A doctor is taken hostage by a drug smuggler whom she has diagnosed as psychotic. Her estranged husband has to find her before the smuggling gang find him and kill them both.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Patrick Barr, Elizabeth Allan, Maxwell Reed, Vanda Godsell
Votes: 165
29. Jazz Boat (1960)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical
An electrician is summoned to assist a gang in a big robbery.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge
Votes: 148
30. The Drayton Case (1953)
26 min | Crime, Short
During the early years of World War II, a bomb from a German airplane uncovers the corpse of a strangled woman.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Victor Platt, Hilda Barry, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 110
31. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
30 min | Drama
When The Alcoa Hour dramatic anthology series moved from Sunday night to Monday, both the name and the format were changed. Instead of having a completely different cast for each episode, ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell
Votes: 90
32. Espionage (1963–1964)
48 min | Drama, War
An anthology series telling different and unrelated stories of espionage set in many countries and historical periods.
Stars: Victor Platt, Martin Lyder, Maxwell Shaw, Alan Tilvern
Votes: 80
33. The Blazing Caravan (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
Just prior to World War II, a salesman murders a drunken man who just won a football pool. Through dogged investigation and the assistance of a bank manager, Scotland Yard arrests the killer.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Alexander Gauge, Edgar Driver, Alan Robinson
Votes: 68
34. The Missing Man (1953)
30 min | Crime, Short
Through a mother's terrible dream, her son's body is discovered in France and his killer is arrested in England.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Tristan Rawson, Evelyn Moore, Axel Moller
Votes: 65
35. The Dark Stairway (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
A blind man who is a "nose witness" to a murder, is asked to select the killer from a line-up based on his acute sense of smell.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Vincent Ball, George Manship
Votes: 61
36. The Candlelight Murder (1953)
32 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard inspector investigates the murder of an old recluse.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Gerald Case, Jack Lambert, Robert Cawdron
Votes: 56
37. The Strange Case of Blondie (1954)
32 min | Short, Crime
Scotland Yard investigates a murder where the prime suspect is a female cat burglar.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Russell Napier, Derek Aylward, Lee Sinclaire
Votes: 54
38. Murder Anonymous (1955)
31 min | Crime, Short
A Scotland Yard detective investigates the murder of a man who the lover of a blind man's wife.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Travers Humphreys, Jill Bennett, Peter Arne
Votes: 53
39. Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955)
31 min | Crime, Short
Scotland Yard detectives investigate a diamond robbery and track the gems to a female criminal who specializes in fencing stolen gems.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Gerald Case, Shay Gorman, Selma Vaz Dias
Votes: 53
40. Passenger to Tokyo (1954)
32 min | Crime, Short
A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victim's body to Tokyo in a trunk.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Kenneth Henry, Ken Marshall, Peter Penn
Votes: 48
41.
Colditz (1972–1974)
Episode:
French Leave
(1974)
Drama, History, War
It is 1944 and technically the French and Germans are no longer at war with each other, meaning that the French captives will lose their prisoner-of-war status and be liable for ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Cregeen | Stars: David McCallum, Jack Hedley, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Valentine
Votes: 36
42.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The Secret War
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In 1917, the Russian Revolution breaks out in earnest and Lenin and Krupskaya - now living in exile in Zurich - are both thrilled as the news finally reach them in Switzerland. They long to... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Lynn Farleigh, Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay
Votes: 36
43. In the Nick (1960)
105 min | Comedy
A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The leader of the gang plans to use this to his advantage and take control of the place through manipulation.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, James Booth
Votes: 31
44. The Flying Eye (1955)
53 min | Comedy, Family
Colonel Audacious is an inventor and with the help of his young assistant, Barnstuffer, he invents a model aeroplane with a TV camera attached that can then fly around revealing all sorts ... See full summary »
Director: William C. Hammond | Stars: David Hannaford, Julia Lockwood, Harcourt Williams, Ivan Craig
Votes: 27
45. Menace (1970–1973)
75 min | Thriller
This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Stars: David Wood, John Wentworth, Sheila Hancock, Anne Kristen
Votes: 23
46. Folio (1955–1959)
Drama, Musical
Stars: Douglas Rain, Jack Creley, Lloyd Bochner, Frank Peddie
Votes: 22
47. Black 13 (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama
20th Century-Fox gets the blame for distributing this in the USA but they were not the production company in any manner. Peter Reynolds is the screwed-up son of a college professor who ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Patrick Barr, Lana Morris
Votes: 16
48. Oil Strike North (1975– )
50 min | Adventure, Drama
Triumph Oil attempts to extract oil from the North Sea from the rig Nelson One, dealing with the trials and tribulations of the rig crew and their families.
Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Witney, Angela Douglas, Barbara Shelley
Votes: 15
49. Dial M for Murder (1974)
50 min | Thriller
Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.
Stars: Jay Neill, Robert Lister, Gemma Jones, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 13