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Basil Dearden
Director 1911 - 1971

Basil Dearden

Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England

Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

31 titles
The Man Who Haunted Himself

The Man Who Haunted Himself

Basil Dearden 1970 1h 28m 6.0

Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

Basil Dearden 1969 1h 52m 7.0

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

Khartoum

Khartoum

Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon 1966 2h 14m 6.8

English General Charles George Gordon, a devout Christian, is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Prime Minister Gladstone. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, General Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Masquerade

Masquerade

Basil Dearden 1965 1h 42m

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Woman of Straw

Woman of Straw

Basil Dearden 1964 2h 2m 6.0

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 Mind Benders

The Mind Benders

Basil Dearden 1963 1h 49m 7.0

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings.

Life for Ruth

Life for Ruth

Basil Dearden 1962 1h 33m 6.0

When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses permission, and the child dies.

All Night Long

All Night Long

Basil Dearden 1962 1h 31m 6.0

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.

Victim

Victim

Basil Dearden 1961 1h 41m 8.2

A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.

The League of Gentlemen

The League of Gentlemen

Basil Dearden 1960 1h 56m 6.5

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field.

Man in the Moon

Man in the Moon

Basil Dearden 1960 1h 38m 6.0

Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon. A man immune to worry, disease, and even the common cold. They think they have found him until the impossible happens at Woomera.

Sapphire

Sapphire

Basil Dearden 1959 1h 32m 7.0

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Violent Playground

Violent Playground

Basil Dearden 1958 1h 48m 7.0

The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.

The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth

Basil Dearden 1957 1h 23m 7.0

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.

Who Done It?

Who Done It?

Basil Dearden 1956 1h 25m 6.0

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

The Ship That Died of Shame

The Ship That Died of Shame

Basil Dearden 1956 1h 35m 6.0

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

The Green Man

The Green Man

Robert Day, Basil Dearden 1956 1h 20m 6.0

An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.

The Rainbow Jacket

The Rainbow Jacket

Basil Dearden 1954 1h 39m 6.0

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

The Square Ring

The Square Ring

Basil Dearden 1953 1h 23m 6.0

Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

The Gentle Gunman

The Gentle Gunman

Basil Dearden 1952 1h 26m 6.0

In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.

I Believe in You

I Believe in You

Basil Dearden, Michael Relph 1952 1h 35m 6.0

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

Pool of London

Pool of London

Basil Dearden 1951 1h 25m 7.0

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp

Basil Dearden 1950 1h 24m 6.5

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Cage of Gold

Cage of Gold

Basil Dearden 1950 1h 20m 5.0

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Basil Dearden 1948 1h 36m 6.5

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

Frieda

Frieda

Basil Dearden 1947 1h 38m 7.0

A Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.

The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart

Basil Dearden 1946 1h 44m

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed.

Dead of Night

Dead of Night

Charles Crichton, Alberto Cavalcanti 1945 1h 43m 7.0

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.

They Came to a City

They Came to a City

Basil Dearden 1944 1h 18m 5.5

People from different walks of live mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

The Halfway House

The Halfway House

Basil Dearden 1944 1h 35m 6.0

A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...

My Learned Friend

My Learned Friend

Will Hay, Basil Dearden 1943 1h 14m

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.

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