Terence Fisher Movies
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1. A Song for Tomorrow (1948)
62 min | Drama, Romance
Derek Wardell is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of the opera singer Helen Maxwell. When he regains consciousness, Wardell thinks that he's in love with her.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Evelyn McCabe, Ralph Michael, Shaun Noble, James Hayter
Votes: 80
2. Colonel Bogey (1948)
51 min | Fantasy
A young Victorian couple spends time with the wife's aunt who behaves as if her late husband were still alive and his ghostly voice is heard.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Jack Train, Mary Jerrold, Jane Barrett, John Stone
Votes: 21
3. Lost Daughter (1949)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for displaced people in post-World War II Germany.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom
Votes: 202
4. Marry Me (1949)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Several individuals consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run, a country vicar and a newspaper reporter sent by his editor to do an undercover story.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Derek Bond, Susan Shaw, Patrick Holt, Carol Marsh
Votes: 136
5. The Astonished Heart (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
This movie begins with a scene in which Barbara (Celia Johnson) rings Leonora (Margaret Leighton) to tell her that something has happened to Chris (Noël Coward). At this point, we don't ... See full summary »
Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey
Votes: 452
6. So Long at the Fair (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Mystery
Vicky Barton visits Paris with her brother Johnny, only to discover the following morning he has gone missing and the hotel staff have no recollection of his presence.
Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman
Votes: 2,331
7. Home to Danger (1951)
Not Rated | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A drug dealer tries to kill his partner's daughter after she inherits an old house.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson, Francis Lister, Alan Wheatley
Votes: 303
8. Man Bait (1952)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama
The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds
Votes: 874
9. Dead on Course (1952)
Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When his girlfriend's brother's cargo plane is lost at sea, nagging questions arise, and pilot Richard Van Ness gets caught in a web of blackmail and smuggling.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Naomi Chance, Arthur Lane
Votes: 328
10. Stolen Face (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
A doctor repairs a female inmate's disfigured face to match the lovely woman who left him, and marries her, only to find out how abusive she is.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell, Mary Mackenzie
Votes: 835
11. Distant Trumpet (1952)
63 min | Drama
David Anthony, Harley Street physician swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Derek Bond, Jean Patterson, Derek Elphinstone, Anne Brooke
Votes: 42
12. The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A social-climbing American with a business in illegal gambling falls in love with a blue blood, but gangsters and a jealous ex-girlfriend stand in the way of happiness.
Directors: Patrick Jenkins, Sam Newfield | Stars: Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 353
13. Man in Hiding (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Mystery
A wrongly convicted murderer escapes prison to find the real killer.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 229
14. Four Sided Triangle (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a "reproducer" which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen
Votes: 823
15. Spaceways (1953)
74 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver
Votes: 530
16. Three Stops to Murder (1953)
76 min | Crime, Drama
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Tom Conway, Mila Parély, Naomi Chance, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 188
17. Blackout (1954)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A broke American in London meets a woman who offers to pay him for a marriage of convenience. He agrees, but awakes bloodied in a strange place, having unknowingly become entangled in her father's murder.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor Summerfield
Votes: 667
18. The Unholy Four (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
A man on a fishing trip with three of his friends receives a blow to the head that makes him lose his memory. Three years later it all comes back to him, but on the day it does one of the men who was on the trip with him turns up dead.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paulette Goddard, William Sylvester, Patrick Holt, Paul Carpenter
Votes: 474
19. The Last Appointment (1954)
65 min | Drama
A reporter and his girlfriend--also a reporter--investigate threats against a retired army officer and discover that they're linked to a series of murders and a court-martial that occurred during the war.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Eleanor Summerfield, Hubert Gregg, Liam Redmond
Votes: 200
20. Race for Life (1954)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Sport
A car pilot must choose between his love for car-racing, and his wife. His buddy's accident will help him to choose, and his loyal ways will get him a new friend - his main rival.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, Peter Illing, Alec Mango
Votes: 183
21. Children Galore (1955)
60 min | Comedy
The Joneses compete for a cottage offered by a British lord to the couple with the most grandchildren.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Eddie Byrne, June Thorburn, Betty Ann Davies, Richard Leech
Votes: 95
22. Stolen Assignment (1955)
62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A young female reporter, tired of the lightweight women's stories her editor keeps assigning her, pesters him to give her an assignment with more substance. When an artist's rich wife is ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Hy Hazell, Eddie Byrne, Patrick Holt
Votes: 126
23. The Flaw (1955)
61 min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
A professional race car driver marries a wealthy woman for her money, and then plans to murder her.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Donald Houston, Rona Anderson, Tonia Bern
Votes: 176
24. The Dynamiters (1956)
74 min | Thriller, Crime, Drama
1955. Directed by Terence Fisher and starring Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne and Patrick Holt. Set in London's Soho, a gang of ruthless safe-crackers plan their next robbery.
Directors: Francis Searle, Terence Fisher | Stars: Wayne Morris, Sandra Dorne, James Kenney, Patrick Holt
Votes: 198
25. The Last Man to Hang (1956)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Sir Roderick Strood is on trial for the murder of his wife.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Tom Conway, Elizabeth Sellars, Eunice Gayson, Freda Jackson
Votes: 137
26. Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A boozy old reporter finds his life is falling apart around him. He loses his wife and then his job. He is dragged back to reality when his son needs help. He goes to ask for his old job back but finds his old boss dead in the office ...
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouris, Wensley Pithey
Votes: 186
27. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee
Votes: 12,643 | Gross: $17.44M
Peter Cushing gets every inch of drama from the leading role, making almost believable the ambitious urge and diabolical accomplishment.
28. Horror of Dracula (1958)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror
When Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula for accepting a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses, his friend Dr. Van Helsing pursues the predatory villain.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling
Votes: 27,973
Trading gore for grandeur, Horror of Dracula marks an impressive turn for inveterate Christopher Lee as the titular vampire, and a typical Hammer mood that makes aristocracy quite sexy.
29. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 6,122
This is a high grade horror film.
30. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,380
Vivid, exciting Hammer production.
31. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold Marlé
Votes: 2,426
32. The Mummy (1959)
Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 10,996
A classic's a classic.
33. The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, History
In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell
Votes: 1,268
34. The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
Vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to destroy handsome bloodsucker Baron Meinster, who has designs on a beautiful young schoolteacher.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson
Votes: 8,877
Patchy but striking, and directed with Fisher's usual flair.
35. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Approved | 88 min | Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff
Votes: 3,367
36. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, History
While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco
Votes: 1,481
37. The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Approved | 93 min | Horror
In eighteenth-century Spain, an adopted boy becomes a werewolf and terrorizes the inhabitants of his town.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller
Votes: 6,832
Directed by famed horror filmmaker and Hammer favorite, Terence Fisher, this slow-moving tale never quite works.
38. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Music
An acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Thorley Walters
Votes: 3,728
39. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Hans Söhnker, Hans Nielsen, Senta Berger
Votes: 1,224
40. The Horror of It All (1964)
TV-PG | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an American salesman and his English fiancee visit her eccentric family who live in a remote old mansion in the country, he discovers that someone is trying to kill everyone there to get the family fortune.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat Boone, Erica Rogers, Dennis Price, Andree Melly
Votes: 432
41. The Gorgon (1964)
Not Rated | 83 min | Horror
In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley
Votes: 6,841
Definitely Hammer at its best.
42. The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In Britain, a group of survivors fights off a deadly alien invasion that uses robots and a poisonous gas to take over the Earth.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters
Votes: 2,399
43. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Unrated | 90 min | Horror
Ten years after his demise, Count Dracula is resurrected by his servant and preys on four unsuspecting English tourists who have taken shelter in his castle.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews
Votes: 10,874 | Gross: $0.80M
The thrills do not arise sufficiently smooth out of atmosphere, but Christopher Lee is excellent as always.
44. Island of Terror (1966)
Unrated | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An isolated remote island community is threatened by an attack by tentacled silicates which liquefy and digest bone and tissue.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 3,956
45. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Unrated | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After being reanimated, Baron Frankenstein transfers the soul of an executed young man into the body of his lover, prompting her to kill the men who wronged them.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris
Votes: 5,450
Not one of the better Hammer sequels, but still enjoyable for its wild concept.
46. Night of the Big Heat (1967)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen, Peter Cushing, Jane Merrow
Votes: 2,336
47. The Devil Rides Out (1968)
G | 95 min | Horror
Devil worshipers plan to convert two new victims.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene
Votes: 10,262
Fisher's direction makes one of the Satanic orgies a production highspot, aided by some frenzied choreography by David Toguri and apt mood music.
48. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward
Votes: 5,290 | Gross: $0.10M
Perhaps the most deadly dull in a series that had run out of steam.
49. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse
Votes: 4,352 | Gross: $0.12M
Last gasp in the Hammer Frankensteins. Not as dull as some, but with a ridiculous monster
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