Ian Wilson

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Carry On Jack (1963)

Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Thomas
CAST:  Kenneth Williams  •  Bernard Cribbins  •  Charles Hawtrey  •  Donald Houston

Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Thomas
CAST:  Kenneth Williams  •  Bernard Cribbins  •  Charles Hawtrey  •  Donald Houston

The Million Pound Note (1954)

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ronald Neame
CAST:  Gregory Peck  •  Ronald Squire  •  Joyce Grenfell  •  Maurice Denham

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ronald Neame
CAST:  Gregory Peck  •  Ronald Squire  •  Joyce Grenfell  •  Maurice Denham

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Herbert Lom  •  Heather Sears  •  Edward de Souza  •  Thorley Walters

The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Herbert Lom  •  Heather Sears  •  Edward de Souza  •  Thorley Walters

The Wicker Man (1973)

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Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robin Hardy
CAST:  Edward Woodward  •  Christopher Lee  •  Britt Ekland  •  Diane Cilento

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robin Hardy
CAST:  Edward Woodward  •  Christopher Lee  •  Britt Ekland  •  Diane Cilento

My Learned Friend (1943)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dearden  •  Will Hay
CAST:  Will Hay  •  Claude Hulbert  •  Mervyn Johns  •  Laurence Hanray

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Basil Dearden  •  Will Hay
CAST:  Will Hay  •  Claude Hulbert  •  Mervyn Johns  •  Laurence Hanray

The Plank (1967)

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Sykes
CAST:  Tommy Cooper  •  Eric Sykes  •  Jimmy Edwards  •  Roy Castle

A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Eric Sykes
CAST:  Tommy Cooper  •  Eric Sykes  •  Jimmy Edwards  •  Roy Castle

The Iron Maiden (1963)

The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Thomas
CAST:  Anne Helm  •  Michael Craig  •  Jeff Donnell  •  Alan Hale Jr.

The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher (Alan Hale, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gerald Thomas
CAST:  Anne Helm  •  Michael Craig  •  Jeff Donnell  •  Alan Hale Jr.

Rotten to the Core (1965)

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Boulting
CAST:  Charlotte Rampling  •  Anton Rodgers  •  Eric Sykes  •  Ian Bannen

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Boulting
CAST:  Charlotte Rampling  •  Anton Rodgers  •  Eric Sykes  •  Ian Bannen

His Lordship (1932)

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Powell
CAST:  Jerry Verno  •  Janet McGrew  •  Ben Welden  •  Polly Ward

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Powell
CAST:  Jerry Verno  •  Janet McGrew  •  Ben Welden  •  Polly Ward

Brothers in Law (1957)

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Boulting
CAST:  Richard Attenborough  •  Ian Carmichael  •  Terry-Thomas  •  Jill Adams

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Boulting
CAST:  Richard Attenborough  •  Ian Carmichael  •  Terry-Thomas  •  Jill Adams

Rx Murder (1958)

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Derek N. Twist
CAST:  Rick Jason  •  Lisa Gastoni  •  Marius Goring  •  Sandu Scott

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Derek N. Twist
CAST:  Rick Jason  •  Lisa Gastoni  •  Marius Goring  •  Sandu Scott

Miss Tulip Stays the Night (1955)

Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Arliss
CAST:  Diana Dors  •  Patrick Holt  •  Jack Hulbert  •  Cicely Courtneidge

Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Arliss
CAST:  Diana Dors  •  Patrick Holt  •  Jack Hulbert  •  Cicely Courtneidge

Out of the Blue (1931)

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Gerrard
CAST:  Gene Gerrard  •  Jessie Matthews  •  Kay Hammond  •  Kenneth Kove

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gene Gerrard
CAST:  Gene Gerrard  •  Jessie Matthews  •  Kay Hammond  •  Kenneth Kove

Lucky Jim (1957)

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Boulting
CAST:  Ian Carmichael  •  Terry-Thomas  •  Hugh Griffith  •  Sharon Acker

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Boulting
CAST:  Ian Carmichael  •  Terry-Thomas  •  Hugh Griffith  •  Sharon Acker

Birds of a Feather (1936)

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Baxter
CAST:  George Robey  •  Horace Hodges  •  Eve Lister  •  Jack Melford

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Baxter
CAST:  George Robey  •  Horace Hodges  •  Eve Lister  •  Jack Melford

Facing The Music (1933)

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Hughes
CAST:  Stanley Lupino  •  Jose Collins  •  Nancy Brown  •  Nancy Burne

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harry Hughes
CAST:  Stanley Lupino  •  Jose Collins  •  Nancy Brown  •  Nancy Burne

Always Tell Your Wife (1923)

A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Hitchcock  •  Seymour Hicks  •  Hugh Croise
CAST:  Seymour Hicks  •  Gertrude McCoy  •  Stanley Logan  •  Ellaline Terriss

A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alfred Hitchcock  •  Seymour Hicks  •  Hugh Croise
CAST:  Seymour Hicks  •  Gertrude McCoy  •  Stanley Logan  •  Ellaline Terriss

Things Are Looking Up (1935)

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert de Courville
CAST:  Cicely Courtneidge  •  Max Miller  •  William Gargan  •  Vivien Leigh

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Albert de Courville
CAST:  Cicely Courtneidge  •  Max Miller  •  William Gargan  •  Vivien Leigh

The Woman from China (1930)

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Dryhurst
CAST:  Julie Suedo  •  Gibb McLaughlin  •  Frances Cuyler  •  Tony Wylde

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Dryhurst
CAST:  Julie Suedo  •  Gibb McLaughlin  •  Frances Cuyler  •  Tony Wylde

The Dizzy Limit (1930)

A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Dryhurst
CAST:  Jasper Maskelyne  •  Joy Windsor  •  Wallace Bosco  •  Dino Galvani

A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Edward Dryhurst
CAST:  Jasper Maskelyne  •  Joy Windsor  •  Wallace Bosco  •  Dino Galvani
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