Movies: Basil Dearden

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists....

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers....

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence....

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end....

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unabl...

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it....

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year o...

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault....

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera....

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion....

Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie....

Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort....

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site....

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army....