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Fury At Smuggler's Bay review by from Merseyside

Cracking entertainment 10 October 2005
...er turns in a bad performance. This is a really riveting adventure, directed by John Gilling, the genius behind later Hammer classics such as The Reptile and The Plague of ... Read customer review

The Reptile review by A customer from leeds

hammer horror 10 March 2007
...point their legion of fans.it,s very atmospheric with good pacey direction from John Gilling with the always excellent micheal ripper enjoying a larger than usual role in t... Read customer review

It Takes A Thief review by A customer from Cirencester, England

Bad Print 8 November 2008
...This was directed in 1960 by John Gilling, whose keynote seems to be no-nonsense efficiency, and was one of two films made in Britain by Jayne Mansfield at the time. The i... Read customer review

John Gilling - filmography

Department S - Series 1-2 - Complete (1969)
Starring: Peter Wyngarde, Joel Fabiani, Rosemary Nicols
Director: Cyril Frankel, Ray Austin, John Gilling
Certificate:
Handling cases that are too baffling to be solved by normal police routine - It's all in a day's work for Department S - a shadowy Interpol department that specialises in the inexplicable and the illogical. Its small core of operatives include flamboyant novelist Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), who ..read more »

52% from 44 members
Not available for rental

The Champions - E28 - The Final Countdown (1969)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
The trio race against time to find a World War Two bomb in a bid to stop it falling into the hands of a neo-Nazi group keen to launch another battle.

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The Champions - E26 - Full Circle (1969)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A safe-breaker gains access to a foreign embassy in London, and Craig must pose as a criminal to find out the location of some secret microfilm. Fantasy drama, starring William Gaunt, Alexandra Bastedo and Stuart Damon as crusading heroes with superhuman powers

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The Saint - S04 E11 - Portrait of Brenda (1969)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Alan Williams is found dead having rung the Saint for his assistance. Pop singer Diane Huntley, a friend of Alan's, takes the Saint to meet a guru who runs meditational sessions at a hefty price, and the Saint is convinced the guru is behind the murder. Diane tells the Saint that Alan had a younger ..read more »

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The Champions - E12 - The Fanatics (1968)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Richard infiltrates a mysterious agency in a risky bid to investigate the audacious assassination of several world leaders.

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The Champions - E10 - The Ghost Plane (1968)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: John Gilling
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The team are enlisted to track down a mystery plane responsible for destroying an naval American aircraft.

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The Saint - S03 E25 - A Double in Diamonds (1967)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: John Gilling
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A highly valuable necklace is stolen from Lord Gillingham by his secretary Kate, who kills the jeweller in the process. The necklace is discovered at a fashion parade... or is it? The model sporting it is actually a twin and it would seem that her sister has decamped to Paris to sell the real thing ..read more »

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The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Starring: Catherine Lacey, David Buck, John Phillips
Director: John Gilling
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A small archaeological party unearths the hidden tomb of Kah-to-Bey, unleashing a horrible, murderous mummy, which can be revived by reading the text from a prince's shroud.

55% from 152 members
Due for release on 10th September 2012

The Reptile on DVD (1966)
Starring: Jennifer Daniel, Noel Willman, Ray Barrett
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A Hammer story set in Cornwall. Local police are baffled when strange fang marks appear on the necks of victims in a series of mysterious deaths. Filmed back-to-back with PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, using several of the same sets. One of the last films made at Bray Studios.

61% from 185 members

The Plague of the Zombies on DVD (1966)
Starring: Andre Morrell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A strange disease of epidemic proportions is invading the English town where Peter Thompson practices. In desperation, he seeks the help of his mentor to make sense of the horrible plague. Amidst walking corpses, voodoo dolls and empty graves, the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ..read more »

61% from 681 members

The Plague of the Zombies - Blu-ray (1966)
Starring: Andre Morrell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A strange disease of epidemic proportions is invading the English town where Peter Thompson practices. In desperation, he seeks the help of his mentor to make sense of the horrible plague. Amidst walking corpses, voodoo dolls and empty graves, the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ..read more »

66% from 11 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012

The Reptile - Blu-ray (1966)
Starring: Noel Willman, Ray Barrett
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A Hammer story set in Cornwall. Local police are baffled when strange fang marks appear on the necks of victims in a series of mysterious deaths. Filmed back-to-back with PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, using several of the same sets. One of the last films made at Bray Studios.

55% from 7 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012

The Brigand Of Kandahar on DVD (1965)
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, Duncan Lamont
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
British adventure is set in mid-19th century India where an officer is court-martialed for cowardice. After he is drummed out, the embittered officer joins a wandering band of bandits and gets his revenge upon those who framed him.

55% from 21 members

Night Caller - Colour Version on DVD (1965)
Starring: John Saxon, Maurice Denham, Patricia Haines
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
The inhabitants Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth. After receiving an unusually high number of reports of missing women, policeman Detective Hartley (Alfred Burke) begins to ..read more »

55% from 12 members

Panic (1963)
Starring: Glyn Houston, Dyson Lovell, Janine Grey
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
1963 British crime thriller, almost a film noir, with a beatnik/hip background, using dark city settings and unusual camera angles.

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The Scarlet Blade on DVD (1963)
Starring: Douglas Blackwell, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A historical adventure set during the English Civil War from the famous Hammer Film Productions. Oliver Reed is in devilish form as a Roundhead soldier who kidnaps the King on the orders of his tyrannical Colonel (Lionel Jeffries). It's down to a local group of loyal soldiers to rescue him, led by ..read more »

61% from 21 members

Fury At Smuggler's Bay on DVD (1961)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Fraser
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible...

53% from 137 members

It Takes A Thief on DVD (1960)
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Mohner
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
The usually kittenish Jayne Mansfield plays against type as a female crook in this stark British crime drama of greed and betrayal. Tough-as-nails Billy (Mansfield) leads a gang of thieves in London with the help of her partner Kristy (Carl Mohner). In the wake of a botched robbery, Billy's lover ..read more »

46% from 40 members

The Challenge on DVD (1960)
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Jayne Mansfield makes a departure from her usual roles to play tough girl Billy in this dark crime story. Set in London during the 1960s, the film casts Mansfield as the ringleader of a band of robbers. After a failed heist, her boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Quayle), is captured, but not before he ..read more »

61% from 17 members

Voice Of Merrill on DVD
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Valerie Hobson, Edward Underdown
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Three people are suspected by Scotland Yard of killing convicted blackmailer Jean Bridges (uncredited). The people in question are struggling author Hugh Allen (Edward Underdown) who was going out with the murdered woman but it broke off due to unhappy circumstances. Allen's publisher Ronald Parker ..read more »

60% from 72 members

Old Mother Riley - Meets The Vampire / H... on DVD
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane
Director: John Gilling, John Harlow, John
Certificate:
Two Old Mother Riley classics on one DVD! In Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire, the old rogue from Ration Row battles 'The Vampire', an evil scientist (who's also a vampire) played by none other than Bela (Dracula) Lugosi himself!! Thanks to an unexpected inheritance from a distant relative in ..read more »

59% from 243 members

John Gilling facts

5 most recent films

Department S - Series 1-2 - Complete - 2.5 stars
The Champions - E28 - The Final Countdown - 3 stars
The Champions - E26 - Full Circle - 3 stars
The Saint - S04 E11 - Portrait of Brenda - 3 stars
The Champions - E12 - The Fanatics - 3 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Reptile - 3.0 stars
The Plague of the Zombies - 3.0 stars
Voice Of Merrill - 3.0 stars
Old Mother Riley - Meets The Vampire / Headmistress - 3.0 stars
The Mummy's Shroud - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Panic - 3 stars
It Takes A Thief - 2.5 stars
Department S - Series 1-2 - Complete - 2.5 stars
Night Caller - Colour Version - 3.0 stars
The Brigand Of Kandahar - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anthony Nicholls - 8 times - show films
George Murcell - 8 times - show films
Stuart Damon - 8 times - show films
Alexandra Bastedo - 8 times - show films
William Gaunt - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Cyril Frankel - 1 times - show films
Ray Austin - 1 times - show films
John Harlow - 1 times - show films
John - 1 times - show films