Stanley Holloway — Actor (23)
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The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Titfield Thunderbolt
director: Charles Crichton actor: Stanley Holloway / George Relph …
other title: Titfield-Expreß / Tortillard pour Titfield …
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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No Trees in the Street (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
No Trees in the Street
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Sylvia Syms / Herbert Lom …
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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Noose (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Noose
director: Edmond T. Gréville actor: Carole Landis / Derek Farr …
other title: Die seidene Schlinge
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
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The Way Ahead (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Way Ahead
director: Carol Reed actor: David Niven / Stanley Holloway …
other title: La via della gloria / Têmpera de Aço …
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
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Snowbound (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Snowbound
director: David MacDonald actor: Dennis Price / Stanley Holloway …
other title: Tempestad
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
director: David Winters actor: Kirk Douglas / Susan George …
other title: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde / Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde …
Musical version of the story in which Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
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Run a Crooked Mile (1969) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Run a Crooked Mile
director: Gene Levitt actor: Louis Jourdan / Mary Tyler Moore …
other title: Vergiss oder stirb
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
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The Sandwich Man (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Sandwich Man
director: Robert Hartford-Davis actor: Michael Bentine / Dora Bryan …
other title: That Swinging City
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Target: Harry (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Target: Harry
director: Roger Corman actor: Vic Morrow / Suzanne Pleshette …
other title: Bersaglio umano / Objetivo: Harry …
Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.
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This Happy Breed (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
This Happy Breed
director: David Lean actor: Robert Newton / Celia Johnson …
other title: La famiglia Gibbon / Esta Nobre Raça …
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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The Winslow Boy (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Winslow Boy
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Robert Donat / Cedric Hardwicke …
other title: Tutto mi accusa / Der Fall Winslow …
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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Hamlet (1948) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Hamlet
director: Laurence Olivier actor: Laurence Olivier / Basil Sydney …
other title: Amleto / 王子复仇记 …
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.