Michael Goodliffe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor best known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts. Goodliffe was... Read full bio →
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To the Devil a Daughter
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
The Man with the Golden Gun
A golden bullet has 007 engraved on it as it smashes into the secret service headquarters. The bullet came from the professional killer Scaramanga who has yet to miss a target and James Bond begins a mission to try and stop him. The ninth film from the Legendary James Bond series starring Roger Moore as a British super agent.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
A dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the wonderfully playful film based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl. Gene Wilder plays a mystical and very reclusive chocolate factory owner that gives five kids the change to visit the most secret and enchanting factory of chocolate.
Gott mit uns
At the end of WW II, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Germans.
Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
The Fixer
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Von Ryan's Express
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Woman of Straw
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
The Gorgon
In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare.
The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
633 Squadron
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns.
A Stitch in Time
Mischievous Norman causes chaos at hospital after accident. Encounters traumatized mute girl Lindy who lost parents. Determined to help, he tries bringing joy back into her life.
80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
The £20,000 Kiss
An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
Jigsaw
A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
The Battle of the Sexes
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century.
Sink the Bismarck!
A true WW2 story: the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Peeping Tom
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Le testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.
Conspiracy of Hearts
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
The 39 Steps
Remake of the classic hitchcock movie. Whilst generally not as good, it is a rather fun movie, and more lighthearted than the original. This is largely due to Kenneth More's acting.
The Camp on Blood Island
In a WWII Malayan prison camp, Dutch destroys the radio to prevent commandant Yamamitsu from learning of Japan's defeat and killing all captives. He, British officer Lambert, and widow Kate prepare to arm the prisoners.
Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
A Night to Remember
On April 10th, 1912, RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton on her maiden voyage. On her fouth night at sea she struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1,500 passengers and crew. The film faithfully depicts the drama, heroism and horror of the night the unsinkable sank.
The One That Got Away
The true story about Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only german prisoner of war to escape from imprisonment in britain during the Second World War.
Fortune Is a Woman
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Wicked as They Come
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
The Battle of the River Plate
A true WW2 story: the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Dial 999
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Sea Devils
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.
The Small Back Room
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.