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1. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 222
2.
This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
Episode:
Richard Attenborough
(1962)
Documentary, Biography
Eamonn Andrews tells the story of Richard Attenborough.
Director: Vere Lorrimer | Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Richard Attenborough, David Attenborough, John Boulting
Votes: 10
3. The Family Way (1966)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers, John Comer
Votes: 1,874
4. Brighton Rock (1948)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams
Votes: 6,818 | Gross: $0.22M
5. Pastor Hall (1940)
95 min | Drama
This film is based on the story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930s has to... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Seymour Hicks, Marius Goring
Votes: 158
6. I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 4,364
7. Twisted Nerve (1968)
M | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
Martin Durnley (Hywel Bennett) is a troubled young man. With a mother who insists on treating him like a child, a stepfather who can't wait to see the back of him, and a brother with Down's... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 2,409
8. 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: 2,190
9. The Magic Box (1951)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Robert Donat, Maria Schell, Renée Asherson, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 1,418
10. The Outsider (1948)
97 min | Drama
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much snobbery... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer
Votes: 446
11. World in Action (1963–1998)
30 min | Documentary
A documentary series focusing on current affairs.
Stars: Brian Armstrong, Chris Kelly, Derek Cooper, Wilfrid Thomas
Votes: 97
12. Heavens Above! (1963)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans, Ian Carmichael
Votes: 1,670
13. Fame Is the Spur (1947)
96 min | Drama
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 225
14. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 323
15. Tunisian Victory (1944)
Approved | 75 min | Documentary, War
Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Frank Capra, Hugh Stewart, John Huston | Stars: Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Bernard Miles, Jacques Duchesne
Votes: 691
16. Journey Together (1945)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War
British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson, Stuart Latham
Votes: 262
17. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
18. The Battle of Gallipoli (1931)
75 min | Drama, War
Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 90
19. Private's Progress (1956)
102 min | Comedy, War
In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Ronald Adam, Henry B. Longhurst, Peter Jones
Votes: 903
20. Brothers in Law (1957)
94 min | Comedy
Roger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen for his fellow lawyers.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Henry B. Longhurst, Edith Sharpe, Ian Carmichael, Henry Hewitt
Votes: 468
21. Cinema (1964–1975)
30 min | Documentary
Weekly film magazine, featuring film reviews, interviews with celebrities and historical lookbacks.
Stars: Michael Scott, Michael Parkinson, Brian Trueman, Clive James
Votes: 121
22. Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy
A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty.
Directors: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen
Votes: 868
23. No Time for Tears (1957)
86 min | Drama
Doctors and nurses of a children's hospital confront the challenges of their profession.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, George Baker
Votes: 134
24. The Risk (1960)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military-biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen
Votes: 319
25. Design for Murder (1939)
60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest, Michael Drake, Hay Petrie
Votes: 65
26. Lucky Jim (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 776
27. The Dawn Guard (1941)
5 min | Short, War
Two Home Guard volunteers discuss the causes of war and their hopes for peace in the future.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Percy Walsh, Bernard Miles
Votes: 30
28. Inquest (1939)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Mystery
Margaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Elizabeth Allan, Philip Friend, Harold Anstruther, Malcolm Morley
Votes: 153
29. There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
In their sexual game, an egotistical and womanizing television host meets his match, Marion, who seeks to remain one step ahead of him.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn, Tony Britton, Ruth Trouncer
Votes: 2,788 | Gross: $2.20M
30. Rotten to the Core (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Charlotte Rampling, Eric Sykes, Ian Bannen
Votes: 234
31. Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1979–1982)
Talk-Show
A BBC talk show which had a different celebrity host each week and went out twice on consecutive nights at the start of the weekend. It was said that the host always had a free hand in the selection of the guests.
Stars: John Wells, Ned Sherrin, Tim Rice, Jane Walmsley
Votes: 53
32. Josephine and Men (1955)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch
Votes: 159
33. Crest of the Wave (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Gene Kelly, John Justin, Bernard Lee, Jeff Richards
Votes: 306
34. Because That Road Is Trodden (1969)
23 min | Short, Fantasy
A boy at that awkward age between childhood and adulthood wonders what life is all about and fantasizes about what the realities may contain.
Director: Tim King | Stars: Sebastian Tombs, Lindy Renton, Cleo Wrighton, David Borrie
Votes: 28
35. Undercovers Hero (1974)
R | 107 min | Comedy
In this comedy, set during the German occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style. As ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peter Sellers, Lila Kedrova, Curd Jürgens, Béatrice Romand
Votes: 746
36. Review (1969–1972)
40 min | Documentary
Weekly arts magazine.
Stars: James Mossman, David Hugh Jones, Keith Dewhurst, Jim Douglas Henry
37. The Anna Contract (1977)
30 min | Short, Thriller
A scientist arrives from Eastern Europe to London. A man, hired to kill her, takes up a sniping position in a terraced rooming-house opposite the building in which the scientist is closeted with an interrogator.
Director: David S. Percy | Stars: Charles Taverner, Muriel Agius, Cleeve Barr, Diana Bromley
38. The British Greats (1980– )
49 min | Biography
Stars: Barry Norman, Peter O'Toole, Roddy McDowall, Sidney Lumet
39. Now and Then (1967–1968)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly, Derek Hart, Tariq Ali
40. Celluloid Village of Dreams (1970 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: John Boulting, Nat Cohen, Bob Godfrey, Richard Hurndall
41. The Landlady (1937)
36 min | Short, Drama
A realistic social study of a boarding house and its formidable landlady.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Peta Shelley, Vi Kaley, Dorothy Vernon, Marie Wright
42. 'This Is My Wife' or Life with Goldie (1970)
Documentary, Short
Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Gus Trikonis, Goldie Hawn, Peter Sellers, John Boulting
43. The Master Chefs (1969)
Documentary
13 x 25minute episodes showing some of the Master Chefs of Europe preparing their dishes in their own restaurants.
Star: Michael Flanders
44. Consider Your Verdict (1938)
38 min | Short, Drama
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Marius Goring, Manning Whiley, George Carney, Hay Petrie
45. Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (1956–1959)
Comedy, Family, Music
Stars: Alan Melville, Alfredo Campoli, Jacqueline Delman, Florence Desmond
46.
Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1979–1982)
Episode:
Episode #3.13
(1980)
Talk-Show
Director: Phil Chilvers | Stars: Ned Sherrin, John Boulting, Frederick Forsyth, Mike Harding
47.
The British Greats (1980– )
Episode:
Robert Donat
(1980)
49 min | Biography
Stars: Barry Norman, Robert Donat, Renée Asherson, John Boulting
48.
Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
Episode:
The Magic Box
(1956)
Drama
A chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell
49.
Cinema (1964–1975)
Episode:
John Boulting
(1971)
Documentary
Director: Mike Becker | Stars: John Boulting, Michael Parkinson
50.
World in Action (1963–1998)
Episode:
The 22 Year Itch
(1970)
Documentary
Stars: Brian Armstrong, John Boulting, Michael Caine, James Clavell