Anne Blake

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Peter Cushing  •  Hazel Court  •  Robert Urquhart  •  Christopher Lee

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Peter Cushing  •  Hazel Court  •  Robert Urquhart  •  Christopher Lee

The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)

A child conceived after a demented beggar rapes a mute servant girl is raised by a wealthy but kindly bachelor gentleman and his woman servant who learn, years later, that he is a werewolf. His only chance for normalcy is to find a woman who will love him for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Oliver Reed  •  Clifford Evans  •  Catherine Feller  •  Yvonne Romain

A child conceived after a demented beggar rapes a mute servant girl is raised by a wealthy but kindly bachelor gentleman and his woman servant who learn, years later, that he is a werewolf. His only chance for normalcy is to find a woman who will love him for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Oliver Reed  •  Clifford Evans  •  Catherine Feller  •  Yvonne Romain

The Fast Lady (1962)

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin
CAST:  Julie Christie  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Leslie Phillips  •  Stanley Baxter

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ken Annakin
CAST:  Julie Christie  •  James Robertson Justice  •  Leslie Phillips  •  Stanley Baxter

The Door in the Wall (1956)

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Glenn H. Alvey Jr.
CAST:  Stephen Murray  •  Ian Hunter  •  Leonard Sachs  •  Anne Blake

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Glenn H. Alvey Jr.
CAST:  Stephen Murray  •  Ian Hunter  •  Leonard Sachs  •  Anne Blake

The Secret Place (1957)

British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clive Donner
CAST:  Belinda Lee  •  Michael Brooke  •  David McCallum  •  Ronald Lewis

British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Clive Donner
CAST:  Belinda Lee  •  Michael Brooke  •  David McCallum  •  Ronald Lewis

Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Morahan
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Rita Tushingham  •  Elaine Taylor  •  Margaret Blye

Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Christopher Morahan
CAST:  Marcello Mastroianni  •  Rita Tushingham  •  Elaine Taylor  •  Margaret Blye

Orders to Kill (1958)

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Asquith
CAST:  Eddie Albert  •  Paul Massie  •  Lillian Gish  •  James Robertson Justice

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Anthony Asquith
CAST:  Eddie Albert  •  Paul Massie  •  Lillian Gish  •  James Robertson Justice

Sky West and Crooked (1965)

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Mills
CAST:  Hayley Mills  •  Ian McShane  •  Annette Crosbie  •  Laurence Naismith

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Mills
CAST:  Hayley Mills  •  Ian McShane  •  Annette Crosbie  •  Laurence Naismith

Taste of Fear (1961)

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Seth Holt
CAST:  Susan Strasberg  •  Ronald Lewis  •  Ann Todd  •  Christopher Lee

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Seth Holt
CAST:  Susan Strasberg  •  Ronald Lewis  •  Ann Todd  •  Christopher Lee

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Ritt
CAST:  Richard Burton  •  Claire Bloom  •  Oskar Werner  •  Sam Wanamaker

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Martin Ritt
CAST:  Richard Burton  •  Claire Bloom  •  Oskar Werner  •  Sam Wanamaker

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karel Reisz
CAST:  Albert Finney  •  Shirley Anne Field  •  Rachel Roberts  •  Hylda Baker

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Karel Reisz
CAST:  Albert Finney  •  Shirley Anne Field  •  Rachel Roberts  •  Hylda Baker

The Hostage (1956)

In this political thriller, set within an unnamed country, revolutionaries try to prevent their leader's execution by kidnapping the president's daughter. A brave hostage pilot, breaks out and heroically saves the girl as the revolutionary leader is killed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold Huth
CAST:  Ron Randell  •  Mary Parker  •  John Bailey  •  Carl Jaffe

In this political thriller, set within an unnamed country, revolutionaries try to prevent their leader's execution by kidnapping the president's daughter. A brave hostage pilot, breaks out and heroically saves the girl as the revolutionary leader is killed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Harold Huth
CAST:  Ron Randell  •  Mary Parker  •  John Bailey  •  Carl Jaffe

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)

Pride comes before a fall in John Bowen' adaptation of MR James' tale of a treasure hunt with a sticky end. Michael Bryant plays The Reverend Somerton whose self-assured intellectual arrogance masks a naked greed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lawrence Gordon Clark
CAST:  Michael Bryant  •  Sheila Dunn  •  Anne Blake  •  Frank Mills

Pride comes before a fall in John Bowen' adaptation of MR James' tale of a treasure hunt with a sticky end. Michael Bryant plays The Reverend Somerton whose self-assured intellectual arrogance masks a naked greed.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lawrence Gordon Clark
CAST:  Michael Bryant  •  Sheila Dunn  •  Anne Blake  •  Frank Mills