British Film Gems
by MarkSandoz | created - 12 Aug 2022 | updated - 02 Jan 2023 | PublicThe best British films in glorious black and white
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1. Curse of the Demon (1957)
Approved | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham
Votes: 15,519
2. Night of the Eagle (1962)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
A woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 4,035
aka Burn Witch, Burn
3. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,229
4. The Ghost Train (1941)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill
Votes: 1,659
5. Back-Room Boy (1942)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery
A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers
Votes: 313
6. Convict 99 (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers
Votes: 542
7. Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
85 min | Comedy
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith
Votes: 1,848
8. The Old Dark House (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 13,112 | Gross: $0.03M
Note: This is a British-American Production
9. Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis
Votes: 1,985
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10. Miss London Ltd. (1943)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Musical
Terry Arden (Evelyn Dall) travels to England to take over her half of her late father's dating service run by Arthur Bowman (Arthur Askey). An enjoyable musical comedy.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves
Votes: 138
11. Band Waggon (1940)
TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Musical
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Jack Hylton and His Band, Richard Murdoch, Pat Kirkwood
Votes: 224
12. Ask a Policeman (1939)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer
Votes: 1,029
13. Where's That Fire? (1939)
73 min | Comedy
A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Eric Clavering
Votes: 423
14. 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
15. The Angry Silence (1960)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
A young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Bernard Lee
Votes: 1,685
16. Never Let Go (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith
Votes: 1,694
17. Holiday's with Pay (1948)
115 min | Comedy
The Rogers family head off by car to Blackpool where, after a musical interlude and fun on the prom, they have an adventure in a haunted house.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea, Dan Young, Josef Locke
Votes: 41
18. Over the Garden Wall (1950)
94 min | Comedy
Joe and Fanny's married daughter visits them with her G.I. husband. The son of Joe's boss tries to start an affair but everything turns out all right in the end.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Norman Evans, Jimmy James, Dan Young, Alec Pleon
Votes: 56
19. Dirty Work (1934)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare, Lilian Bond
Votes: 64
20. Pot Luck (1936)
71 min | Comedy, Crime
Recently retired, big-headed, Inspector Fitzpatrick (Walls) traces priceless vase to manor house owned by the ineffectual Pye (Robertson Hare)
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill
Votes: 51
21. A Cup of Kindness (1934)
81 min | Comedy
Theatrical adaptation about squabbling neighbors includes a musical pantomime dream flashback to show the same characters re-enacting their conflicts way back in the Stone Age.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 46
22. Fighting Stock (1935)
69 min | Comedy
On a fishing holiday, irascible Sir Donald Rowley (Walls) is soon at loggerheads with neighbour Rivers. Then nephew Sidney (Lynn) falls for Rivers' stepdaughter. All kinds of complications ensue.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Marie Lohr
Votes: 66
23. A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
85 min | Comedy
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Grace Edwin, Yvonne Arnaud
Votes: 135
24. I Thank You (1941)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Lily Morris, Moore Marriott
Votes: 208
25. Bees in Paradise (1944)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Musical
During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Max Bacon
Votes: 167
26. Somewhere in Camp (1942)
88 min | Comedy
Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Harry Korris, Frank Randle, Robbie Vincent, Dan Young
Votes: 54
27. Somewhere on Leave (1943)
96 min | Comedy, War
Wealthy Private Roy Desmond takes his soldier friends to his palatial home to help him get his dream girl, who happens to be adopted.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Frank Randle, Harry Korris, Dan Young, Robbie Vincent
Votes: 80
28. The Goose Steps Out (1942)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.
Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Croft, Barry Morse
Votes: 517
29. Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Hay, Gordon Harker, Jimmy Hanley, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 468
30. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Votes: 15,575
31. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport
A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen
Votes: 9,374
32. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,108 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Mystery
Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Wally Patch
Votes: 299
34. Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
77 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
It comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers, Wally Patch
Votes: 240
35. Somewhere in Civvies (1943)
87 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Frank Randle, George Doonan, Suzette Tarri, Joss Ambler
Votes: 25
36. The Hill (1965)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, War
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch
Votes: 15,180
37. The Haunting (1963)
G | 112 min | Horror
Hill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 42,512 | Gross: $2.62M
38. Village of the Damned (1960)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 19,148
39. 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: 2,404
40. Dear Murderer (1947)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed
Votes: 1,117
41. No Place Like Homicide! (1961)
87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Ernie's uncle has just died, but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long, the guests begin to drop dead.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price
Votes: 1,011
42. Too Many Crooks (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw
Votes: 1,254
43. Carry on Spying (1964)
87 min | Comedy
Agent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 3,113
44. Carry on Regardless (1961)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.
Directors: Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Votes: 2,500
45. Carry on Cabby (1963)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A taxi company is threatened when an all-female firm sets itself up in business and starts to steal their customers.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 3,021
46. Carry on Constable (1960)
86 min | Comedy
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. They manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Eric Barker, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 2,823
47. Carry on Sergeant (1958)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, War
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,004
48. Carry on Teacher (1959)
86 min | Comedy
Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey
Votes: 2,667
49. Windbag the Sailor (1936)
87 min | Comedy
A bragging sea captain's maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is coerced into commanding an ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Norma Varden
Votes: 432
50. School for Scoundrels (1960)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Directors: Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott
Votes: 3,896
51. The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 1,584
52. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,585
53. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,194
54. Man in the Dark (1964)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alexander Davion
Votes: 245
55. Carry on Nurse (1959)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 3,196
56. Cash on Demand (1961)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird
Votes: 2,888
57. Crooks Anonymous (1962)
88 min | Comedy, Crime
Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Julie Christie
Votes: 696
58. Good Morning, Boys! (1937)
79 min | Comedy
A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Votes: 500
59. Happidrome (1943)
87 min | Comedy
Mr Lovejoy, a struggling actor-manager returns to a small provincial town with plans to put on a show.
Director: Philip Brandon | Stars: Harry Korris, Robbie Vincent, Cecil Fredericks, Bunty Meadows
Votes: 33
60. It's That Man Again (1943)
84 min | Comedy
Con man local mayor gambles municipal treasury in a poker game and wins a broken down theatre.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt, Jack Train, Sydney Keith
Votes: 95
61. She Knows Y' Know (1962)
72 min | Comedy
A young man is accused of getting a girl pregnant. Two sets of parents tussle and then they find out who really got her pregnant.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Hylda Baker, Cyril Smith, Joe Gibbons, Peter Myers
Votes: 109
62. The Green Man (1956)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Crime
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
Directors: Robert Day, Basil Dearden | Stars: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
Votes: 2,327
63. Things Happen at Night (1948)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Horror
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare, Olga Lindo
Votes: 241
64. Wanted for Murder (1946)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver
Votes: 805
65. Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
80 min | Comedy
Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing ... See full summary »
Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt
Votes: 357
66. Small Hotel (1957)
59 min | Comedy
The crafty and experienced waiter Albert keeps things running smoothly at the Jolly Fiddler Hotel, and he is the only one who can placate the crabby justice of the peace who is a permanent ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder, Irene Handl
Votes: 214
67. And the Same to You (1960)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy
A priest's nephew struggles to hide his boxing career from his uncle.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Brian Rix, William Hartnell, Tommy Cooper, Vera Day
Votes: 203
68. Inn for Trouble (1960)
90 min | Comedy
When a couple from London move to the country to take over a pub they have inherited, they find that rural life isn't as idyllic as they'd imagined, thanks to the manoeuvrings of a powerful local brewery.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Shaun O'Riordan, Peggy Mount, Ronan O'Casey, David Kossoff
Votes: 254
69. A Touch of the Sun (1956)
80 min | Comedy
Willie is a hall porter who is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old hotel which is in financial difficulties.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Dennis Price, Dorothy Bromiley
Votes: 183
70. Jumping for Joy (1956)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Frankie Howard stars as Willie Joy, the man whose new greyhound causes him all kinds of trouble. First, the pooch gets poorly and then Willy has to fend off race fixing gangsters.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, A.E. Matthews, Tony Wright
Votes: 139
71. Two Way Stretch (1960)
TV-PG | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
While in prison, Dodger plots the perfect heist: break out, steal diamonds, get back before noticed. With days left on sentence and a solid alibi, he's confident nothing can go wrong.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 2,643
72. A Stitch in Time (1963)
G | 89 min | Comedy
An accident in the butcher's shop leads Norman and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Norman finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman, Jeanette Sterke, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 1,270
73. The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, Australian gangsters disguised as Bobbies rob the local criminals, making the panicked British mobsters seek an alliance with Scotland Yard in order to eliminate the foreign competition and return things to "normal".
Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Peter Sellers, Lionel Jeffries, Bernard Cribbins, Davy Kaye
Votes: 2,325
74. Your Past Is Showing (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 2,046
75. Ladies Who Do (1963)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Harry H. Corbett, Miriam Karlin
Votes: 547
76. Make Mine Mink (1960)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Athene Seyler, Hattie Jacques, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 1,130
77. A Day to Remember (1953)
92 min | Drama
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Joan Rice, Odile Versois, Donald Sinden
Votes: 279
78. Never on Sunday (1960)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis
Votes: 6,149
79. An Inspector Calls (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Brian Worth
Votes: 5,242
80. Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
Votes: 6,810
81. Murder Most Foul (1964)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank
Votes: 6,316
82. Murder She Said (1961)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 8,575
83. Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
The return of the Huggett family. After first meeting the family at the Holiday Camp, this is on the home front. The Huggetts are about to have their first telephone installed. In today's ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw
Votes: 342
84. The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy
A family makes a lengthy and fraught journey across South Africa by truck when their son-in-law gets a job in the country.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dinah Sheridan, Susan Shaw
Votes: 252
85. Number 17 (1932)
TV-PG | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop
Votes: 5,441
86. Sabotage (1936)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Thriller
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder
Votes: 18,759
87. The Phantom Fiend (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb, Barbara Everest
Votes: 360
88. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
Votes: 13,402
89. The Runaway Bus (1954)
78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 768
90. On the Beat (1962)
106 min | Comedy
Norman wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Norman could cause.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Jennifer Jayne, Raymond Huntley, David Lodge
Votes: 1,051
91. Trouble in Store (1953)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Norman, a stockroom worker at a London store, aspires to be a window dresser. Pursuing his dream, he falls for a shopgirl and they uncover a robbery plot, miraculously foiling the thieves.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Margaret Rutherford, Moira Lister, Derek Bond
Votes: 1,154
92. Man of the Moment (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 580
93. The Bulldog Breed (1960)
97 min | Comedy
When he is crossed in love, grocers assistant Norman Puckle joins the Navy, where he is recruited to man the first British rocket.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Ian Hunter, David Lodge, Robert Urquhart
Votes: 897
94. The Interrupted Journey (1949)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A writer eloping with his mistress by train has second thoughts, pulls the emergency brake, bails out and witnesses the train's collision with another train, events eventually leading to murder and a police manhunt.
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden, Tom Walls
Votes: 632
95. Lord of the Flies (1963)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin
Votes: 20,425
96. Murder Ahoy (1964)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn
Votes: 5,809
97. The Alphabet Murders (1965)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Anita Ekberg, Maurice Denham
Votes: 1,893
98. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Votes: 21,183
99. Secret Agent (1936)
Not Rated | 86 min | Mystery, Thriller
After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Peter Lorre
Votes: 9,046
100. Blackmail (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Votes: 11,975
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