Thomas Heathcote

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A Man for All Seasons (1966)

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fred Zinnemann
CAST:  Paul Scofield  •  Wendy Hiller  •  Leo McKern  •  Robert Shaw

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Fred Zinnemann
CAST:  Paul Scofield  •  Wendy Hiller  •  Leo McKern  •  Robert Shaw

Malta Story (1953)

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Desmond Hurst
CAST:  Alec Guinness  •  Jack Hawkins  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Anthony Steel

In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Brian Desmond Hurst
CAST:  Alec Guinness  •  Jack Hawkins  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Anthony Steel

Night of the Big Heat (1967)

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Christopher Lee  •  Patrick Allen  •  Peter Cushing  •  Jane Merrow

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Christopher Lee  •  Patrick Allen  •  Peter Cushing  •  Jane Merrow

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

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Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Fuest
CAST:  Vincent Price  •  Joseph Cotten  •  Virginia North  •  Terry-Thomas

Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Fuest
CAST:  Vincent Price  •  Joseph Cotten  •  Virginia North  •  Terry-Thomas

The Sword and the Rose (1953)

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin
CAST:  Richard Todd  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Michael Gough  •  Peter Copley

Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin
CAST:  Richard Todd  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Michael Gough  •  Peter Copley

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  James Donald  •  Andrew Keir  •  Barbara Shelley  •  Julian Glover

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  James Donald  •  Andrew Keir  •  Barbara Shelley  •  Julian Glover

A Day at the Beach (1970)

Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Hesera
CAST:  Peter Sellers  •  Beatie Edney  •  Bertel Lauring  •  Lise Dietrich

Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Simon Hesera
CAST:  Peter Sellers  •  Beatie Edney  •  Bertel Lauring  •  Lise Dietrich

Billy Budd (1962)

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Ustinov
CAST:  Robert Ryan  •  Terence Stamp  •  Peter Ustinov  •  Melvyn Douglas

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Ustinov
CAST:  Robert Ryan  •  Terence Stamp  •  Peter Ustinov  •  Melvyn Douglas

Village of the Damned (1960)

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolf Rilla
CAST:  George Sanders  •  Barbara Shelley  •  Martin Stephens  •  Michael Gwynn

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolf Rilla
CAST:  George Sanders  •  Barbara Shelley  •  Martin Stephens  •  Michael Gwynn

The Stolen Airliner (1955)

Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Sharp
CAST:  Fella Edmonds  •  Diana Day  •  Peter Dyneley  •  Nicola Braithwaite

Three air cadets foil Revolutionaries who are plotting to steal an airliner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Sharp
CAST:  Fella Edmonds  •  Diana Day  •  Peter Dyneley  •  Nicola Braithwaite

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gordon Parry
CAST:  Diana Dors  •  George Baker  •  Terence Morgan  •  Patrick Allen

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gordon Parry
CAST:  Diana Dors  •  George Baker  •  Terence Morgan  •  Patrick Allen

The Large Rope (1953)

After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolf Rilla
CAST:  Donald Houston  •  Susan Shaw  •  Robert Brown  •  Vanda Godsell

After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Wolf Rilla
CAST:  Donald Houston  •  Susan Shaw  •  Robert Brown  •  Vanda Godsell

Trial by Combat (1976)

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kevin Connor
CAST:  John Mills  •  Donald Pleasence  •  David Birney  •  Barbara Hershey

A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kevin Connor
CAST:  John Mills  •  Donald Pleasence  •  David Birney  •  Barbara Hershey

The Last Man to Hang (1956)

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Tom Conway  •  Elizabeth Sellars  •  Eunice Gayson  •  Freda Jackson

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Tom Conway  •  Elizabeth Sellars  •  Eunice Gayson  •  Freda Jackson

Blood Orange (1953)

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Tom Conway  •  Mila Parély  •  Naomi Chance  •  Eric Pohlmann

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Tom Conway  •  Mila Parély  •  Naomi Chance  •  Eric Pohlmann

Tiger in the Smoke (1956)

Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  Donald Sinden  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Tony Wright  •  Bernard Miles

Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Ward Baker
CAST:  Donald Sinden  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Tony Wright  •  Bernard Miles

Doctor at Sea (1955)

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Thomas
CAST:  Dirk Bogarde  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Brigitte Bardot  •  Brenda De Banzie

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ralph Thomas
CAST:  Dirk Bogarde  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Brigitte Bardot  •  Brenda De Banzie

Eyewitness (1956)

When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Muriel Box
CAST:  Donald Sinden  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Belinda Lee  •  Michael Craig

When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Muriel Box
CAST:  Donald Sinden  •  Muriel Pavlow  •  Belinda Lee  •  Michael Craig

Burke & Hare (1972)

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vernon Sewell
CAST:  Harry Andrews  •  Glynn Edwards  •  Yootha Joyce  •  Françoise Pascal

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Vernon Sewell
CAST:  Harry Andrews  •  Glynn Edwards  •  Yootha Joyce  •  Françoise Pascal

On the Fiddle (1961)

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cyril Frankel
CAST:  Alfred Lynch  •  Sean Connery  •  Cecil Parker  •  Stanley Holloway

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Cyril Frankel
CAST:  Alfred Lynch  •  Sean Connery  •  Cecil Parker  •  Stanley Holloway
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