Movies: Peter Bathurst

Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon...

A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?...

Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval....

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired...

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th...

A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him....

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist....

A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."...

An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday....

A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue....

A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed....

An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award....

Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist ...

Australian newsreel, telling of the besieged Australian forces in Tobruk. Coverage shows dawn patrols, wrecks in Tobruk Harbour, tank patrols, anti-aircraft action against German planes, gun barrages, etc. also seen is the grave of first Australian V...

The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth....

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name....

The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Throu...

The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer....

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series....

Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first"...