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1. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
Director: Gabriel Pascal | Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Votes: 3,130
2. Sapphire (1959)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Paul Massie
Votes: 2,304
3. The Concrete Jungle (1960)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad
Votes: 1,758
4. King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Not Rated | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Family
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Directors: Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, John Loder
Votes: 1,445
5. Sanders of the River (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Music
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran
Votes: 729
6. Follow the Sun (1951)
93 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The inspiring film biography of the courageous champion golfer Ben Hogan.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc
Votes: 450
7. Song of Freedom (1936)
TV-PG | 66 min | Drama, Music
A black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga.
Director: J. Elder Wills | Stars: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy, Robert Adams
Votes: 444
8. Old Bones of the River (1938)
90 min | Comedy
In this British comedy, a professor travels up river in Africa to open schools. But his new pupils are not receptive and when the commander of the local base succumbs to malaria, he takes ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Robert Adams
Votes: 271
9. Midshipman Easy (1935)
73 min | Adventure
A young man runs away to sea but finds more adventures than he was expecting.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate, Robert Adams
Votes: 211
10. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
11. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 92
12. The Vise (1954–1961)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
Stars: Donald Gray, Colin Tapley, Ron Randell, Robert Arden
Votes: 75
13. Jungle Treasure (1950)
75 min | Comedy
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Garry Marsh, Roddy Hughes
Votes: 74
14. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
15. Men of Two Worlds (1946)
90 min | Drama
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Robert Adams, Eric Portman, Orlando Martins, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 58
16. Dreaming (1944)
78 min | Comedy
A soldier is knocked unconscious during a train journey and has a series of bizarre dreams.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Hazel Court, Dick Francis
Votes: 57
17. It Happened One Sunday (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Sweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher
Votes: 24
18. Theatre Parade (1936–1938)
Scenes taken from popular London theatrical productions.
Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Antoinette Cellier, Greer Garson, John Wyse
Votes: 13
19. The Common Round (1936)
33 min | Short, Drama
Director: Stephen Harrison | Stars: Torin Thatcher, Francis James, George Zucco, Frederick Peisley
Votes: 9
20. The Emperor Jones (1938 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Stars: Robert Adams, Frederick Burtwell, Irene Howe
Votes: 6
21. The Merchant of Venice (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
Votes: 6
23. Epilogue to Capricorn (1959– )
30 min
Stars: Jean Kent, Peter Wyngarde, Richard Johnson, Adrienne Corri
24. Nick of the River (1959– )
30 min | Crime
Stars: George Baker, Martin Wyldeck, Lane Meddick, Ray Smith
25. Deirdre (1938 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
A play in verse.
Stars: Robert Adams, Iris Baker, A. Bromley Davenport, Baliol Holloway
26. Everyman (1947 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
Stars: André Morell, Ralph Richardson, Henry Oscar, Lewis Casson
27. The Merchant of Venice/II (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
28. The Hill (1959 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Stars: Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Rosalie Crutchley, Mike Murray, Andrew Crawford
29. From Fear to Faith (1946)
19 min | Short, Drama
Director: James Swackhammer | Stars: Robert Adams, Gordon Mulholland
30. All God's Chillun' Got Wings (1946 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Eric Fawcett | Stars: Robert Adams, Connie Smith, Pauline Henriques, Joyce Heron
31.
Theatre Parade (1936–1938)
Episode:
Hassan: Part 1
(1937)
Stars: Greer Garson, Frank Cellier, John Wyse, D.A. Clarke-Smith
32.
Theatre Parade (1936–1938)
Episode:
Hassan: Part 2
(1937)
Stars: Greer Garson, Frank Cellier, John Wyse, D.A. Clarke-Smith
33.
The Vise (1954–1961)
Episode:
Murder for Revenge
(1959)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Businessman John Adams wife Stella has weaponised her heart attack to be spiteful. Adams is meeting actress Betsy Linton. His designer Lynch, wants him to let him out of of his royalties deal. When Adams is shot, Betsy needs Mark Saber.
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Robert Arden, Donald Gray, Colin Tapley, Robert Raikes
34.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
The Blood Fight
(1959)
Drama
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Robert Adams, Clare Austin, Harry Baird, Elaine Delmar
35.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
(1960)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Robert Adams, Barbara Assoon, Leo Carera, John Clarence
36.
Nick of the River (1959– )
Episode:
A Question of Treacle
(1959)
Crime
Director: Bill Hitchcock | Stars: George Baker, Martin Wyldeck, Lane Meddick, Mona Bruce
37.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Green Pastures
(1958)
Drama
God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.
Stars: Robert Adams, Harry Baird, Earl Cameron, Nadia Cattouse
38.
Jo's Boys (1959)
Episode:
Part 5
(1959)
Drama
Stars: Annabelle Lee, Kate Cameron, Robert Adams, Miles Brown
39.
Epilogue to Capricorn (1959– )
Episode:
All on Tape
(1959)
Director: John Nelson-Burton | Stars: Richard Johnson, Peter Wyngarde, Adrienne Corri, Allan Cuthbertson
40.
Epilogue to Capricorn (1959– )
Episode:
Point of No Return
(1959)
Director: John Nelson-Burton | Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Jean Kent, Adrienne Corri, George Murcell