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1. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
2.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Creature
(1955)
90 min | Drama
A scientist searches for the Yeti in a Himalayan fastness, and is soon at odds with an adventurer who wants to find the Creature for less exalted reasons.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Peter Cushing, Stanley Baker, Eric Pohlmann, Simon Lack
Votes: 24
3. Jane Eyre (1956)
30 min | Drama
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
Stars: Daphne Slater, Stanley Baker, Dorothy Black, Barbara Everest
Votes: 18
4.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Robinson Crusoe
(1974)
120 min | Drama
A man struggles to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Stanley Baker, Ram John Holder, Jerome Willis
Votes: 29
5. Thriller (1973–1976)
TV-14 | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
"Thriller" was an anthology series of self-contained episodes, with genres ranging from murder mystery to suspense to psychological and supernatural horror.
Stars: Donna Mills, Gary Collins, Derek Francis, Michael Jayston
Votes: 967
6. How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
310 min | Drama
The mini-series is set in South Wales during the reign of Queen Victoria. It tells the story of the Morgans, a respectable mining family of the South Wales Valleys, through the eyes of one of the sons, Huw Morgan.
Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Keith Drinkel
Votes: 153
7. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
8. Zulu (1964)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Votes: 42,603
9. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
60 min | Drama
This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum
Votes: 241
10. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
Stars: Bob Hope, Jack Weston, Jack Kelly, John Francis
Votes: 236
11. Dee Time (1967–1969)
45 min | Music
Dee Time starred charismatic former BBC Radio 1 DJ Simon Dee in a series of hip talk shows in which he interviewed the big names in the TV and film showbiz-set as well as stars of the world of popular music.
Stars: Simon Dee, The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra, Leonard Martin, Anita Harris
Votes: 57
12. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 55,186 | Gross: $28.90M
13. Richard III (1955)
Not Rated | 161 min | Biography, Drama, History
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 5,188
14. The Cruel Sea (1953)
Approved | 126 min | Drama, War
The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 5,385
15. The Hidden Room (1949)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 2,659
16. Code Name: Heraclitus (1967 TV Movie)
60 min | Thriller
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Stanley Baker, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Weston, Sheree North
Votes: 29
17. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Not Rated | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall
Votes: 7,486
18. Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
This was part of a series of TV productions intended to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. This one centered around a family of refugees who, for lack of ... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Robert Aiken, Stanley Baker, Theodore Bikel, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 30
19.
Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
Episode:
The Criminals
(1958)
60 min | Drama
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
Director: James Ferman | Stars: Stanley Baker, Raymond Huntley, Allan Cuthbertson, Frederick Bartman
Votes: 27
20. The Italian Job (1969)
G | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Votes: 50,153
21. Hell Drivers (1957)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, Patrick McGoohan
Votes: 4,034
22.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Changeling
(1974)
103 min | Drama
A woman falls in love with a sea captain, and plots to kill her fiance.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Stanley Baker, Helen Mirren, Brian Cox, Alan Webb
Votes: 68
23.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1976)
Drama
The mine owner's son Iestyn Evans courts Angharad to the chagrin of Ifor; Huw learns to fight bullies at school, only to be more harmed by his pompous teacher.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Norman Comer
Votes: 11
24. Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 1,299
25. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 91
26. Drama 61-67 (1961–1967)
60 min | Drama
Stars: Brian Haines, Robert Cartland, Alister Williamson, Joe Ritchie
Votes: 30
27.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(1976)
Drama
As Bronwen mourns her husband Ifor's death while working in the mines (showing Hew the ropes), Owen and Blodwen's romance blossoms; meanwhile, Hew tries connecting with Angharad, who refuses to visit her family.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Sue Jones-Davies
Votes: 10
28. Hell Is a City (1960)
93 min | Crime, Thriller
In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley
Votes: 1,372
29.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1976)
Drama
Hew's bullied on his first day at school; Ianto gets surprising help from the Reverend concerning the creation of a work union at the mines.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Norman Comer
Votes: 12
30.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1976)
Drama
Angharad and Iestyn Evans get engaged, so her sister Bronwen tries convincing Reverend Gruffydd to intercede.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Norman Comer
Votes: 10
31.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(1976)
Drama
Celebrations abound after Ifor and his choir return from singing to Queen Victoria; Hew has more school troubles while Angharad's marriage to Evans starts to crumble.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Norman Comer
Votes: 9
32. Robbery (1967)
110 min | Crime, Drama
A group of British criminals plan the robbery of the Royal Mail train on the Glasgow-London route.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 2,028
33. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti
Votes: 5,765
34. Accident (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
Votes: 4,963
35. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 176
36. ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Comedy, Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Bryant, William Simons, Katherine Barker, Geoffrey Palmer
Votes: 86
37. The Concrete Jungle (1960)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad
Votes: 1,750
38.
How Green Was My Valley (1975–1976)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1975)
Drama
A crippled Huw, youngest son of patriarch Gruffydd Morgan, is told that he will one day walk, while his eldest brother battles for a union in the mines, to their father's chagrin.
Director: Ronald Wilson | Stars: Stanley Baker, Siân Phillips, Nerys Hughes, Norman Comer
Votes: 14
39. The Good Die Young (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins
Votes: 1,496
40. Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Approved | 119 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
After a small aircraft crashes in the Kalahari Desert, one of the seven passengers decides that his survival chances would increase if he eliminates the other men in the group.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Susannah York, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,487
41. The Merv Griffin Show (1962–1986)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Merv Griffin invites a series of actors, actresses, writers, and directors to discuss the progressive work they have done and current culture, arts, and entertainment surrounding the numerous projects.
Stars: Merv Griffin, Mort Lindsey, Mort Lindsey Orchestra, Arthur Treacher
Votes: 605
42. Chance Meeting (1959)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s London, Dutch painter Jan Van Rooyen has an affair with a rich married Frenchwoman who is supposedly murdered, resulting in Van Rooyen becoming Scotland Yard's prime suspect.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, John Van Eyssen
Votes: 896
43. A Prize of Arms (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Stanley Baker, Helmut Schmid, Tom Bell, John Phillips
Votes: 408
44. Dingaka (1964)
98 min | Drama, Action
A film about an African tribesman seeking revenge against the people who murdered his daughter. His crusade leads him to commit murder himself, and to trial before a court.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: Stanley Baker, Juliet Prowse, Ken Gampu, Alfred Jabulani
Votes: 102
45. The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
M | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth
Votes: 1,712
46. Violent Playground (1958)
108 min | Drama, Crime
The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing
Votes: 838
47. Cloudburst (1951)
Approved | 83 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
A Canadian World War II veteran working for the British Foreign Office scours England for the killer who murdered his wife.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley, Sheila Burrell
Votes: 717
48. In the French Style (1963)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker, Philippe Forquet, Addison Powell
Votes: 342
49. Who Killed Lamb? (1974 TV Movie)
65 min | Mystery, Thriller
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why, so a police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard, and discovers they may be more to the victim than met anyone's eye.
Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Stanley Baker, Denis Lill, David Swift, Derek Francis
Votes: 95
50. All Over the Town (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On the south west coast of England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.
Director: Derek N. Twist | Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam
Votes: 209