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Basil Dearden
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Basil Dearden - filmography
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
(1970)
Starring: Olga Georges-Picot, Roger Moore
Director: Basil Dearden
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Psychological thriller adapted from an episode of the 1960s TV series 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents...'. Roger Moore stars as Harold Pelham, a successful businessman who becomes possessed by an alter-ego following a horrific car accident. This doppelganger brings chaos to Pelham's formerly sedate life:..read more »
 
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from 3 members
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The Assassination Bureau
(1969)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Director: Basil Dearden
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Based the Jack London novel, Assassination Bureau is hugely entertaining 60s adventure romp.
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 ..read more »
65%
from 120 members
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Khartoum
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Ralph Richardson, Richard Johnson
Director: Basil Dearden
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Biopic chronicling the last years of General Gordon (Charlton Heston). In 1883, Gordon takes charge of the British army against the Arab forces in the Sudan, led by the charismatic and bloodthirsty Mahdi (Laurence Olivier). A mutual respect grows between the two leaders, as the conflict grows in ..read more »
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from 728 members
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The Blue Lamp / The Nanny
(1965)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde
Director: Seth Holt, Basil Dearden
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A double bill of British classics. 'The Blue Lamp' (1949) is a classic British police story. Sergeant Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot and killed while teaching a new recruit (Jimmy Hanley) the ropes. Police and some of the West London criminal fraternity hunt down his killer (Dirk Bogarde). Sergeant ..read more »
65%
from 782 members
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The Mind Benders
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Mary Ure, Terry Palmer, John Clements
Director: Basil Dearden
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After a fellow scientist accused of passing secrets to the communists commits suicide, Dr.Henry Longman (Dirk Bogarde) submits himself to a particularly dangerous experiment in total isolation to try and prove that his colleague had been brainwashed. Although he doubts whether the technique can ..read more »
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from 143 members
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A Place To Go
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Barbara Ferris, John Slater, David Andrews
Director: Basil Dearden
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Basil Dearden directs this 1960s kitchen sink drama set in London's Bethnal Green. The Flint family are struggling to keep their heads above water, especially when dad Matt (Bernard Lee) loses his job at the docks and decides to make a living as an escapologist instead. Meanwhile son Ricky (Michael ..read more »
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from 113 members
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Victim
(1961)
Starring: Nigel Stock, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Nicholls
Director: Basil Dearden
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In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a ..read more »
73%
from 884 members
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All Night Long
(1961)
Starring: Johnny Dankworth, Patrick McGoohan, Dave Brubeck
Director: Basil Dearden
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The feature film inspired by Shakespeare's Othello. Paul Harris is happily married to Marti Stevens. Patrick McGoohan plays the film's funky Iago character, who covets Harris' job. McGoohan hopes to unnerve Harris by spreading rumours that Stevens has been unfaithful.
59%
from 149 members
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The League Of Gentlemen
(1960)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Bryan Forbes, Robert Coote
Director: Basil Dearden
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British comedy-thriller in the Ealing mode. After 25 years of army service, Colonel Hyde's (Jack Hawkins) unblemished career ends abrubtly when he is retired. However, before leaving he steals some information, and, once outside, puts together a top team of ex-army gents (all experts in their own ..read more »
56%
from 1,364 member
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Man In The Moon
(1960)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Newton
Director: Basil Dearden
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Basil Dearden directs this sci-fi spoof starring Kenneth More as William Blood, a human guinea pig at a research centre set up to find a cure for the common cold. His incredible levels of immunity bring him to the attention of a team of space scientists, who decide he is the perfect candidate to ..read more »
46%
from 6 members
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Sapphire
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick
Director: Basil Dearden
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Hard-hitting 1950s crime drama exploring racism towards immigrants among the London police and public. Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham), a fair-skinned West Indian immigrant, is discovered murdered. To the police, led by Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) and Inspector Learoyd (Michael Craig), the ..read more »
70%
from 63 members
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Violent Playground
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: David McCallum, Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood
Director: Basil Dearden
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1950s drama in which a detective is reassigned to the position of Juvenile Liaison Officer for the city of Liverpool and sets about tackling youth crime. Truman (Stanley Baker) is initially unhappy with his new position, feeling that it will thwart his attempts to catch the arsonist doing a great ..read more »
64%
from 62 members
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The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Miles
Director: Basil Dearden
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. They ..read more »
69%
from 703 members
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The Green Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole
Director: Robert Day, Mario Zampi, Basil Dearden
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Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now ..read more »
72%
from 527 members
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Who Done It?
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Belinda Lee, Ernest Thesiger, David Kossoff
Director: Basil Dearden
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Ealing's last comedy has Benny Hill making his screen debut in this film about an ice rink sweeper who dreams of being a private investigator. His dream comes true when he manages to capture a ring of spies.
58%
from 98 members
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The Ship That Died Of Shame
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen
Director: Basil Dearden
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1950s British film drama based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. The crew of the Royal Navy's much-decorated Motor Gun Boat 1087 find the going much tougher following the end of the Second World War. Now unemployed, the men buy their old ship back from a scrap yard and use her to smuggle black ..read more »
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from 176 members
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Desert Mice
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Irene Handl, Dick Bentley, Sid James
Director: Michael Ralph
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WWII comedy farce from director Michael Relph. A disperate group of music hall entertainers find themselves tangled up in a British general's plans, and soon, via a series of bumbling episodes, end up capturing a member of the German high command. Sid James, Dora Bryan and Marius Goring star.
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from 60 members
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The Gentle Gunman
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty
Director: Basil Dearden
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Terrance Sullivan is a member of the IRA and has moved to London, along with his brother and a group of IRA members, to wreak havock on London. However Terrance becomes weary of the constant violence and refuses duirect orders to blow up a railway station. The IRA soon place a price on the Gentle ..read more »
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from 96 members
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Pool Of London
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Earl Cameron, Bonar Colleano, Susan Shaw
Director: Basil Dearden
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A small-time smuggler finds himself in over his head in this gritty crime drama directed by Basil Dearden. Wisecracking merchant seaman Dan MacDonald (Bonar Colleano) makes ends meet by dabbling in a spot of petty smuggling in post WWII London. But his life quickly changes when he's framed by a ..read more »
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from 268 members
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The Blue Lamp
(1950)
Starring: Meredith Edwards, Patric Doonan, Bernard Lee
Director: Basil Dearden
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Sergeant Dixon (Jack Warner) is shot and killed while teaching a new recruit (Jimmy Hanley) the ropes. Police and some of the West London criminal fraternity hunt down his killer (Dirk Bogarde) in this classic British police story. Sergeant Dixon was later resurrected to star in the long-running TV ..read more »
72%
from 338 members
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The Halfway House
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Francoise Rosay, Glynis Johns, Guy Middleton
Director: Basil Dearden
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Basil Deardon directs this 1940s fantasy drama about being offered a chance for redemption. After sheltering from a storm in a Welsh inn a group of strangers, each with something to hide, begin to notice that all is not as it seems with their new surroundings. Welcomed by the innkeeper Rhys (Mervyn ..read more »
69%
from 152 members
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My Learned Friend
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Ernest Thesiger, Claude Hulbert, Lloyd Pearson
Director: Will, Basil Dearden, Will Hay
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William Fitch (Will Hay, in his last film) is a disbarred barrister now summoned to court to face charges of sending begging letters. Falling back on his legal skills, Fitch manages to make mincemeat of the cross examining lawyer, Claude Bobbington (Claude Hulbert), and is found not guilty. However,..read more »
70%
from 108 members
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The Goose Steps Out
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Julien Mitchell
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay
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Classic Will Hay comedy. Inept schoomaster William Potts (Hay) is parachuted into Nazi Germany when British intelligence discover that he is the spitting image of an enemy master spy. Upon his arrival, Potts is put to work teaching young German spies how to appear authentically British - and is ..read more »
69%
from 144 members
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The London Collection
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Anthony Newley, Robert Step, Earl Cameron
Director: Basil Dearden, Ken Hughes
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This collection brings together six films, all produced in and showing various locations in post-war London and covering a range of themes from blackmail in a bombed out slum in the East End to dockside smuggling and robbery. In 'Pool of London' (1951) a group of sailors, including Dan MacDonald (..read more »
60%
from 49 members
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Will Hay - Comic Icons Collection
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Will Hay
Director: Marcel Varnel, Basil Dearden, Arthur Chandler
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Triple bill of comedies starring Will Hay. 'Radio Parade of 1935' (1934) was one of the first screen outings for Hay. He plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-..read more »
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from 202 members
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Four Just Men - Complete
Starring: Frank Thornton, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman
Director: Basil Dearden
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Every episode from the 1950s drama starring Jack Hawkins, Richard Conte, Vittorio de Sica and Dan Dailey as a group of men who accept responsibility for protecting the world from severe threats. The episodes are: 'The Battle of the Bridge', 'The Prime Minister', 'The Village of Shame', 'The Judge', ..read more »
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Life for Ruth
Starring: Megs Jenkins, Paul Rogers, Patrick McGoohan
Director: Basil Dearden
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Morality thriller. When John Harris's (Michael Craig) daughter is injured in a boating accident, only a blood transfusion will save her. Unfortunately, this goes against his religious beliefs, and as a result the child dies. Taken to court by local Dr. Brown (Patrick McGoohan), Harris eventually ..read more »
78%
from 21 members
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