Sidney Gilliat — Playwright (25)
cover
The Ghost Train (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Ghost Train
director: Walter Forde actor: Jack Hulbert / Cicely Courtneidge …
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
cover
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Man Who Changed His Mind
director: Robert Stevenson actor: Boris Karloff / Anna Lee …
other title: Der Mann, der sein Gehirn austauschte / Cerveaux de rechange …
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
cover
Seven Sinners (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Seven Sinners
director: Albert de Courville actor: Edmund Lowe / Constance Cummings …
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
cover
The Rake's Progress (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Rake's Progress
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Rex Harrison / Lilli Palmer …
other title: Der letzte Sündenfall
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
cover
The Belles of St Trinian's (1954) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Belles of St Trinian's
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Joyce Grenfell …
other title: As Belas de St. Trinian / Die Schönen von St. Trinians …
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind.
cover
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Young Mr. Pitt
director: Carol Reed actor: Robert Donat / Robert Morley …
other title: Il nemico di Napoleone / The Young Mr Pitt …
In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.
cover
Girl in the News (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Girl in the News
director: Carol Reed actor: Margaret Lockwood / Barry K. Barnes …
other title: la Nouvelles Fille
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
cover
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
director: Frank Launder actor: Terry-Thomas / George Cole …
other title: Blue Murder at St Trinian's / Blue murder at St. Trinians
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
cover
State Secret (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
State Secret
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Glynis Johns …
other title: Segreto di stato / Staatsgeheimnis …
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
cover
The Green Man (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Green Man
director: Robert Day / Basil Dearden actor: Alastair Sim / George Cole …
other title: Assassino di fiducia / Seks bomber …
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
cover
The Constant Husband (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Constant Husband
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Rex Harrison / Kay Kendall …
other title: Sette mogli per un marito / So etwas lieben die Frauen …
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
cover
Bulldog Jack (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bulldog Jack
director: Walter Forde actor: Jack Hulbert / Fay Wray …
other title: Alias Bulldog Drummond
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
cover
Night Train to Munich (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Night Train to Munich
director: Carol Reed actor: Margaret Lockwood / Rex Harrison …
other title: Expresso de Munique / Train de nuit pour Munich …
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.