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It Started in Paradise (1952)
Character: Edouard
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Dance Little Lady (1954)
Character: Mark Gordon
When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star. Drama.
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The March Hare (1956)
Character: Sir Charles Hare
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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The Lifetaker (1975)
Character: James
Lonely housewife takes a young lover to ease the boredom and make her overbearing husband jealous. With unexpected and violent results.
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No Place Like Earth (1965)
Character: Bert Foster
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.
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I cavalieri dell'illusione (1954)
Character: N/A
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)
Character: 2nd Lt. Gerard
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
Character: Adam Beauchamp
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
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The Scamp (1957)
Character: Mike Dawson
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
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Surcouf, l'eroe dei sette mari (1966)
Character: Lord Blackwood
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
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The Steel Key (1953)
Character: Johnny O'Flynn
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
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The Persuaders! (1973)
Character: Carl Foster
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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The Last Appointment! (1977)
Character: Carl Foster
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
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The Penthouse (1967)
Character: Bruce Victor
A married man and his young mistress suffer sadistic torture when Tom, Dick and Harry invade their penthouse.
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Encore (1951)
Character: Syd Cotman
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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Street Corner (1953)
Character: Ray
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
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Mandy (1952)
Character: Harry Garland
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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L'amante di Paride (1954)
Character: Golo (segment: Il Cavalieri dell'illusione)
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
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Hide and Seek (1972)
Character: Ted Lawson
A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.
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Forbidden Cargo (1954)
Character: Roger Compton
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Character: Dave Mansell
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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Turn the Key Softly (1953)
Character: David
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
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They Can't Hang Me (1955)
Character: Inspector Ralph Brown
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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The Shakedown (1960)
Character: Augie Cortona
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam.
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Hamlet (1948)
Character: Laertes
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
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Svengali (1954)
Character: Billy Bagot
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
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Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)
Character: Dominic Colpoys-Owen
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
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It's a Wonderful World (1956)
Character: Ray Thompson
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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Always a Bride (1953)
Character: Terence Winch
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
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