Charles Frend

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The Cruel Sea review by from Wirral, Merseyside

Rewarding.and a wonderful homage to the WW2 Royal Navy Escort Service 31 March 2012
..., sensitive, thought-provoking, finely-written experience, expertly directed by Charles Frend (who also directed that fine homage to the Merchant Navy, 'San Demetrio, London... Read customer review

The Sentimental Agent - Complete (1963)
Starring: Carlos Thompson, Burt Kwouk, John Turner
Director: Charles Frend, John Paddy Carstairs
Certificate:
THE SENTIMENTAL AGENT features Carlos Thompson, Clemence Bettany and Burt Kwouk.

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Danger Man - Vol. 5 on DVD (1961)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Charles Frend, Peter Graham Scott
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Episodes include: Sabotage, The Contessa, The Leak, The Trap, The Actor, Hired Assassin, The Deputy Coyannis Story and Fire and Destroy

63% from 197 members

Danger Man - Vol. 6 on DVD (1961)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan
Director: Seth Holt, Peter Graham Scott, Charles Frend
Certificate:
Episodes include: Under the Lake, The Nurse and Dead Man Walks

62% from 194 members

Girl On Approval on DVD (1961)
Starring: Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell, Annette Whiteley
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
Sheila's 14. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak... ..read more »

43% from 10 members

Cone Of Silence on DVD (1960)
Starring: Michael Craig, Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
Veteran pilot George Gort (Bernard Lee) faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner He is severely cross-examined by Sir Arnold Hobbes Q.C. (Gorge Sanders) and found guilty of a pilot error. The pressure mounts on Gort when Captain Judd (Peter Cushing) accuses him ..read more »

68% from 127 members

Barnacle Bill on DVD (1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Percy Herbert
Director: Charles Frend
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Captain Ambrose (Alec Guinness) is the last in a long line of distinguished seafarers. Forced to retire due to chronic seasickness, he takes charge of a dilapidated pier in a seaside resort. After he finds out the town's Mayor wants to demolish his beloved pier, Ambrose registers the pier as a ..read more »

74% from 319 members

The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.

73% from 272 members

The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

74% from 105 members

The Cruel Sea on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

72% from 3,482 members

The Magnet on DVD (1950)
Starring: Stephen Murray, William Fox, Kay Walsh
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

62% from 392 members

A Run for Your Money on DVD (1949)
Starring: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and sundry other urban distractions.

68% from 112 members

Scott Of The Antarctic on DVD (1948)
Starring: John Mills, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole

71% from 467 members

Johnny Frenchman on DVD (1945)
Starring: Francoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

62% from 54 members

San Demetrio, London on DVD (1943)
Starring: Arthur Young, Walter Fitzgerald, Ralph Michael
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way.

76% from 153 members

Fiddlers Three / The Foreman Went To France on DVD (1942)
Starring: Tommy Trinder, Dave Willis, Patricia Kirkwood
Director: Norman Lee, Charles Frend, Walter Forde
Certificate:
The Foreman Went To France (Dir. Charles Frend) (1942): Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment. Fiddlers Three (Dir. Harry Watt) (1944): A pair of Jolly Jack Tars on shore leave take a Wren (..read more »

66% from 82 members

The Sentimental Agent - Complete - 3 stars
Danger Man - Vol. 5 - 3.0 stars
Danger Man - Vol. 6 - 3.0 stars
Girl On Approval - 2.0 stars
Cone Of Silence - 3.5 stars

San Demetrio, London - 4.0 stars
The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Barnacle Bill - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars

The Sentimental Agent - Complete - 3 stars
Girl On Approval - 2.0 stars
Danger Man - Vol. 6 - 3.0 stars
The Magnet - 3.0 stars
Johnny Frenchman - 3.0 stars

Meredith Edwards - 5 times - show films
John Stratton - 3 times - show films
Gordon Jackson - 3 times - show films
Moira Lister - 3 times - show films
Jack Hawkins - 3 times - show films

Peter Graham Scott - 3 times - show films
Seth Holt - 1 times - show films
Ralph Smart - 1 times - show films
Norman Lee - 1 times - show films
Ralph - 1 times - show films