British TV & Films 1953 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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1. Terror Street (1953)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 387
2. Her Three Bachelors (1953)
75 min | Comedy
Three bachelors raise a baby who grows into an eligible young woman.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane, Peter Hammond
Votes: 8
3. 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
4. Black Orchid (1953)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood
Votes: 248
5. Three Stops to Murder (1953)
76 min | Crime, Drama
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 188
6. The Slasher (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres
Votes: 509
7. The Man from Cairo (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
An American tourist, who served in Algeria during WW2, is mistaken for an American agent hired by the French government to recover its gold reserves that went missing in the Algerian desert during the war.
Directors: Ray Enright, Edoardo Anton | Stars: George Raft, Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Guido Celano
Votes: 199
8. Decameron Nights (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Adventure, Romance
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa ... See full summary »
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Godfrey Tearle, Joan Collins
Votes: 292
9. Desperate Moment (1953)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Simon Van Halder (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is accused of murdering a British soldier during post-World War II mayhem. His girlfriend works on his behalf to expose the true villain.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling, Philip Friend, Albert Lieven
Votes: 214
10. Rheingold Theatre (1953–1957)
23 min | Drama
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. narrated, produced, and frequently starred in this anthology series, which presented everything from drama to mystery to farce.
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Christopher Lee, Ron Randell, Barbara Mullen
Votes: 74
11. Escape by Night (1953)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James, Ted Ray
Votes: 137
12. Innocents in Paris (1953)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A weekend trip to Paris affects the lives of a group of British tourists.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Peter Illing, Gaby Bruyère, James Copeland, Monique Gérard
Votes: 530
13. Laughing Anne (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
Based on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner
Votes: 81
14. Man in Hiding (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Mystery
A wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 229
15. Melba (1953)
112 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley, John McCallum, John Justin
Votes: 47
16. Never Let Me Go (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Clark Gable, Gene Tierney, Bernard Miles, Richard Haydn
Votes: 901
17. One Stop Shop (1953)
Drama
Director: Peter Mills | Stars: Derek Aylward, John Boxer, Jonathan Field, Sidney Vivian
18. Panorama (I) (1953– )
40 min | Documentary, News
Long-running factual programme reporting on all aspects of life in Britain.
Stars: Fred Emery, David Dimbleby, Richard Lindley, Richard Dimbleby
Votes: 598
19. Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Votes: 660
20. Robin Hood (1953)
30 min | Adventure
Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest fight the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Stars: Patrick Troughton, John Breslin, Wensley Pithey, Dudley Jones
Votes: 22
21. Shoot First (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Thriller
A retired U.S. Army Colonel living in England stumbles upon a spy ring when he shoots buckshot at a poacher during a hunt.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Joel McCrea, Laurence Naismith, Denis Lehrer, Marius Goring
Votes: 354
22. Strange Stories (1953)
45 min | Drama, Horror
Directors: Don Chaffey, John Guillermin | Stars: Peter Bull, Naomi Chance, Valentine Dyall, Helen Horton
Votes: 17
23. Both Sides of the Law (1953)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan
Votes: 247
24. Stryker of the Yard (1953)
67 min | Crime, Drama
Two episodes of the Stryker of Scotland Yard series: The Case of the Studio Payroll and The Case of Uncle Harry, edited together into feature film format.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen, Jack Watling, Eliot Makeham
25. Take a Powder (1953)
58 min | Comedy
Director: Lionel Tomlinson | Stars: Julien Vedey, Max Bacon, Isabel George, Maudie Edwards
26. The Accused (1953)
53 min | Crime, Drama
A combination of two made-for-television short stories, the first entitled THE ACCUSED and the second THE DOOR. The latter starred Ingeborg Wells, Peter Reynolds and Irene Handl, none of ... See full summary »
Directors: Lawrence Huntington, Charles Saunders | Stars: Clifford Evans, Robert Adair, Gwen Bacon, Cyril Chamberlain
27. The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)
58 min | Family
Two youngsters round up crooks to blow up British fleet off Gibraltar.
Director: James Hill | Stars: Nati Banda, Roy Savage, George Cole, Patrick Boxill
Votes: 62
28. The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)
54 min | Drama, Family
A group of petless children secretly build a zoo behind an old manor, unaware it hides jewel thieves. The children find the crooks, then join forces with their animals to defeat them.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris, Geoffrey Sumner, Brian Oulton
Votes: 47
29. The Fake (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton
Votes: 493
30. Bad Blonde (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A scheming blonde seduces a fighter and convinces him to murder her husband, a fight manager.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney James
Votes: 444
31. The Genie (1953)
75 min | Drama
A young woman discovers her grandfather owns the true Aladdin's lamp and discovers it's handsome Genie inside as well.
Directors: Lance Comfort, Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sean Barrett, Patricia Cutts, Tommy Duggan
32. The Girl on the Pier (1953)
65 min | Crime
A London copper and his family on holiday, a Yank gangster/crooner, a junior journalist, a waxworks horror museum owner and his unfaithful dolly bird wife congregate on Brighton's Palace Pier for blackmail and murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes
Votes: 125
33. The Good Old Days (1953–1983)
60 min | Comedy, Musical
A re-creation of the Music Hall variety shows that were popular in the late Victorian and the Edwardian periods (late 1800s and early 1900s). Entertainers performed musical, comedy, magic ... See full summary »
Stars: Leonard Sachs, Dudley Stevens, Jenny Wren, Penny Rigden
Votes: 90
34. The House of the Arrow (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Mystery
A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 155
35. The Long Rope (1953)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wrongly accused convict returns home, only to be maligned again.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Donald Houston, Susan Shaw, Robert Brown, Peter Byrne
Votes: 211
36. Project M7 (1953)
86 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Donald, Robert Beatty, Herbert Lom
Votes: 190
37. The Horse's Mouth (1953)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin, Virginia McKenna, Mervyn Johns
Votes: 81
38. The Saint's Girl Friday (1953)
73 min | Crime, Mystery
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Louis Hayward, Naomi Chance, Sydney Tafler, Charles Victor
Votes: 249
39. The Secret Cave (1953)
62 min | Family
Director: John Durst | Stars: David Coote, Nick Edmett, Susan Ford, Lewis Gedge
Votes: 16
40. 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
41. The Straw Man (1953)
74 min | Crime, Drama
Insurance investigator Clifford Evans, investigates murderer on Death Row, insured by his company.
Director: Donald Taylor | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Clifford Evans, Lana Morris, Amy Dalby
Votes: 74
42. The Triangle (1953)
78 min | Drama, Fantasy
Compilation of three "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents" episodes: "A Lodging for the Night", "Priceless Pocket", and "American Duel".
Directors: Leslie Arliss, Lance Comfort, Bernard Knowles | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Muriel George, James Hayter
43. The Village (1953)
Approved | 98 min | Drama
This film deals with war orphans following WWII at a children's village in the Swiss Alps where over 200 children from all parts of Europe are gathered. The subplots involve a romance ... See full summary »
Director: Leopold Lindtberg | Stars: John Justin, Eva Dahlbeck, Sigfrit Steiner, Mary Hinton
Votes: 51
44. The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
War time drama. Lili will not marry her true Love, an American reporter, until she becomes a star. Starring Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott and Sid James.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott, Sidney James, Gabrielle Brune
Votes: 48
45. Twice Upon a Time (1953)
75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Twin sisters are separated when their parents divorce. They meet again by accident when they are both sent to the same summer camp and hatch a plot to reunite their family.
Director: Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan, Jack Hawkins, Yolande Larthe
Votes: 66
46. Wheel of Fate (1953)
72 min | Drama
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over Lucky, a beautiful band singer. Then ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne, Bryan Forbes, John Horsley
Votes: 77
48. Rag Tag and Bobtail (1953–1963)
15 min | Family
Adventures of Rag the Hedgehog, Tag the Mouse, and Botail the Rabbit in their countryside home.
Stars: Charles E. Stidwill, David Enders
Votes: 16
50. It Is Midnight, Doctor Schweitzer (1953 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
In 1914, a German doctor, missionary and organist establishes a hospital in the malaria, sleeping sickness and leprosy-ridden French colony of Gabon in Africa.
Stars: André Morell, Greta Gynt, Douglas Wilmer, Tom Fleming
51. Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder (1953)
Horror
A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and... See full summary »
Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Gilbert Harding, Kay Walsh, Betty Ann Davies, Patrick Barr
Votes: 12
52. Disobedient (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Based on the play by Jean Cocteau, and looking like a play as all the action takes place indoors, a neurotic mother almost devours a son with smothering, possessive and misdirected love. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Frank | Stars: Harold Warrender, Marian Spencer, Ruth Dunning, William Russell
Votes: 11
53. The Dragon of Pendragon Castle (1953)
52 min | Family
Sir William Magnus lives in an old drafty castle with his daughter and his two grandchildren, Peter and Judy. Few visitors call and when there are guests they do not stay long, freezing ... See full summary »
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Leslie Bradley, David Hannaford, Lily Lapidus, J. Hubert Leslie
Votes: 12
54. Behind the Headlines (1953)
53 min | Crime
Gilbert Harding is interviewed by John Fitzgerald and tells how Scotland Yard tracks down lorry thieves who killed a night watchman. (Authentic hospital operation scenes)
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Gilbert Harding, John Fitzgerald, Adrienne Scott, Vi Kaley
Votes: 7
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