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  • Asylum

    1972
    Rated:
    15

    Four asylum inmates tell their stories in this chiller from the Amicus studios. Robert Powell, Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, Britt Ekland and Herbert Lom star

    Rating: 0 Star
  • Death Drums Along The River

    1963
    Rated:
    PG

    Nineteen sixties thriller with cop Richard Todd heading into deepest Africa to foil a diamond smuggling operation

    Rating: 3 Star
  • Long and the Short and the Tall, The

    1960
    Rated:
    TBC

    In 1959 Peter O'Toole, on the eve of screen stardom, made an impact in the play by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall about a British Army patrol in Burma debating whether or not to execute a Japanese

    Rating: 0 Star
  • Danger Within

    1958
    Rated:
    TBC

    Ingenious combination of World War II prisoner-of-war escape film and whodunit, from the novel 'Death in Captivity' by Michael Gilbert. An effective mixture of suspense and comedy, resulting from bot

    Rating: 0 Star
  • Yangtse Incident: The Story Of HMS Amethyst

    1957
    Rated:
    U

    A British warship runs afoul of the communist Chinese in this military drama starring Richard Todd and William Hartnell

    Rating: 3.5 Star
  • Saint Joan

    1957
    Rated:
    U

    There's a thesis to be written about the myriad screen treatments of Joan of Arc, and this oddity - adapted by Greene from Shaw's play - certainly deserves a mention. The then unknown Seberg in the c

    Rating: 0 Star
  • Chase A Crooked Shadow

    1957
    Rated:
    TBC

    A man believed dead returns to collect his inheritance in a noir thriller starring Richard Todd and produced by Douglas Fairbanks Jnr

    Rating: 3 Star
  • D-Day The Sixth Of June

    1956
    Rated:
    PG

    Real-life hero Richard Todd stars in the other D-Day movie opposite Robert Taylor and Dana Wynter

    Rating: 3 Star
  • Virgin Queen, The

    1955
    Rated:
    U

    Lavish historical drama about the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, played by Bette Davis, and Sir Walter Raleigh, played by Richard Todd.

    Rating: 0 Star
  • A Man Called Peter

    1955
    Rated:
    TBC

    The life and times of Peter Marshall, the Scottish boy who grew up to be Chaplain of the US Senate. Religious drama starring Richard Todd

    Rating: 3.5 Star
  • The Dam Busters

    1955
    Rated:
    U

    Guy Gibson and his Lancaster squadron set about the Ruhr in Michael Anderson's essential British war movie

    Rating: 4 Star
  • The Story Of Robin Hood And His Merrie Men

    1952
    Rated:
    U

    Disney's live-action take on the Nottingham tale starring Richard Todd and Peter Finch

    Rating: 3 Star
  • Stage Fright

    1950
    Rated:
    PG

    A light-hearted mystery from a time when Hitchcock was making some of his best thrillers, with RADA student Jane Wyman caught in a web of murder and deceit

    Rating: 0 Star
  • Hasty Heart, The

    1949
    Rated:
    TBC

    Emotional drama starring Oscar-nominated Richard Todd, in his first major screen role, as a prickly, aloof Scottish soldier who, unaware he is dying in a British military hospital in Burma, rejects t

    Rating: 0 Star