Arthur Mullard

6.8

L'Homme au complet blanc

Aug 07, 1951

L'Homme au complet blanc

1951 85 min 183 vues

Jeune chimiste diplômé de Cambridge, Sidney Stratton survit en travaillant comme manutentionnaire dans le textile. Il n'a pas enterré son ambition et élabore dans le plus grand secret un tissu révolutionnaire. Un jour enfin, l'industriel Alan Birnley l'embauche pour exploiter ses véritables capacités... Les ennuis commencent.

Comedy

6.5

Peril for the Guy

Jan 01, 1956

Peril for the Guy

1956 55 min 2 vues

Story of a group of children's successful efforts to bring to book a gang of oil men intent on stealing valuable invention.

Family

5.8

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Mar 11, 1966

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

1966 93 min 23 vues

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

Comedy

6.157

Morgan

Apr 03, 1966

Morgan

1966 97 min 35 vues

Morgan est un artiste, qui aime les fleurs, les animaux et les enfants. Mais à l'instar de son héros de la jungle, le gorille mâle, il devient formidable une fois en danger. Quand sa femme Leonie décide de le quitter pour un homme plus sensé, Morgan donne libre cours à ses fantasmes les plus fous. Dans un costume de gorille loué, il tente de reconquérir l'affection de sa bien-aimée !

Comedy

6.4

Jules de Londres

Mar 17, 1963

Jules de Londres

1963 94 min 36 vues

A Londres, un faux grand couturier pretendument francais dirige en fait une bande de malfaiteurs.

Crime

7.7

Holiday on the Buses

May 19, 1973

Holiday on the Buses

1973 85 min 54 vues

Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.

Comedy

4.3

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

Jul 01, 1978

Adventures of a Plumber's Mate

1978 88 min 20 vues

Randy plumber Sid South enjoys a profession which offers him ample opportunity to bed sexy housewives.

Comedy

5.2

Sparrows Can't Sing

Mar 26, 1963

Sparrows Can't Sing

1963 94 min 21 vues

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.

Comedy

4.3

Postman's Knock

Feb 22, 1962

Postman's Knock

1962 137 min 5 vues

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.

Comedy

6.2

Les Belles de Saint-Trinian

Sep 28, 1954

Les Belles de Saint-Trinian

1954 91 min 51 vues

A St. Trinian, un pensionnat de jeunes filles britannique où les jeunes élèves sont plus intéressées par les courses que par les livres, en même temps qu'elles essayent de trouver le meilleur moyen pour devenir riches rapidement. Elles sont encouragées par le frère de la directrice, joué par Alastair Sim, lequel incarne également ladite directrice.

Comedy

5.6

And the Same to You

Feb 01, 1960

And the Same to You

1960 70 min 7 vues

Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.

Comedy

1

Car Booty – Gnomes

Jan 02, 1975

Car Booty – Gnomes

1975 2 min 1 vues

Arthur Mullard and Kenneth Williams supply the voices of two gnomes locked in a car boot in this crime prevention short; another impressive example of the big names from film and TV in the COI's locker.

Documentary

6.5

La lampe bleue

Jan 19, 1950

La lampe bleue

1950 84 min 52 vues

PC George Dixon qui doit prendre sa retraite sous peu, prend une nouvelle recrue, Andy Mitchell (Hanley), sous son égide, l'introduction au rythme de nuit accommodants. Dixon est un héros Ealing « ordinaire » classique, mais aussi anachronique, non préparé et incapable de répondre à la violence de Tom Riley (Bogarde). Appelé à la scène d'un vol qualifié dans un cinéma local, Dixon se retrouve face à face avec Riley, un jeune désespéré armé d'un revolver.

Crime

3.5

The Cuckoo Patrol

Jul 16, 1967

The Cuckoo Patrol

1967 76 min 7 vues

Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.

Comedy

6.2

The Captive Heart

Apr 29, 1946

The Captive Heart

1946 104 min 22 vues

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.

Drama

1

Skimpy in the Navy

Nov 15, 1949

Skimpy in the Navy

1949 84 min 1 vues

Slapstick comedy.

Comedy

6.796

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Dec 17, 1968

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968 144 min 658 vues

Caractacus potts vient de mettre au point une voiture révolutionnaire, capable de rouler, de volet et de flotter ! A bord de ce nouvel engin, l'inventeur excentrique, ses deux enfants et sa ravissante petite amie vont découvrir un monde merveilleux peuplé de château, de pirates, et d'aventures extraordinaires.

Family

6.3

Le Caveau de la terreur

Mar 16, 1973

Le Caveau de la terreur

1973 83 min 148 vues

Cinq hommes morts sont condamnes chaque nuit a revivre le cauchemar de leurs méfaits sur terre. L'un poignarde sa sœur, l'autre terrorise sa femme, le troisième est victime de ressuscites tandis que les deux autres connaissent le meurtre et les sortilèges.

Horror

8.3

Crooks and Coronets

Apr 02, 1969

Crooks and Coronets

1969 106 min 3 vues

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.

Comedy

6.4

Les Trafiquants du Dunbar

Feb 20, 1951

Les Trafiquants du Dunbar

1951 85 min 31 vues

Deux marins en permission se retrouvent mêlés à un trafic de diamants. L’un, Johnny, d’origine jamaïcaine, tombe amoureux. Ce conte dramatique nous montre Londres à travers les yeux d’un jeune Noir, qui découvre une ville interdite, hostile. La question raciale est au centre de ce thriller réaliste, devenu un document exceptionnel…

Crime

7.3

Inspector Hornleigh

Mar 07, 1939

Inspector Hornleigh

1939 76 min 5 vues

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

Comedy

5.2

Dangerous Cargo

May 01, 1954

Dangerous Cargo

1954 61 min 3 vues

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.

Crime

5.4

Radio Cab Murder

Oct 01, 1954

Radio Cab Murder

1954 70 min 5 vues

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

Crime

6.2

Dentiste sur l'emploi

Jun 01, 1961

Dentiste sur l'emploi

1961 88 min 15 vues

Le colonel Proudfoot de Proudfoot Industries tente d'attirer un couple de dentistes nouvellement qualifiés pour la publicité « Dreem », un type révolutionnaire de dentifrice, mais il sait que si les dentistes apprennent qu'ils font partie d'une campagne publicitaire, ils seront rayées du rôle et la campagne sera une catastrophe.

Comedy

1

Four Men in Prison

Dec 31, 1950

Four Men in Prison

1950 40 min 1 vues

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Documentary

7.3

Tueurs de dames

Dec 08, 1955

Tueurs de dames

1955 91 min 472 vues

Le commissariat de police de la petite ville de Richmond a l'habitude de la visite de Margaret Wilberforce, veuve d'un officier de marine, complètement mythomane. Un jour, le digne professeur Marcus loue une chambre à la vieille dame où, tous les soirs, il répète avec ses amis musiciens un menuet de Boccherini. En réalité, ils préparent le hold-up du siècle.

Comedy

2.8

Gonks Go Beat

May 24, 1965

Gonks Go Beat

1965 90 min 5 vues

Bizarre sixties fable resembling Romeo and Juliet, but instead of Montagues and Capulets, there are two musical communities, one who like rock and roll and one who like ballads, who become reunited through the love between a couple who love across their grouping. It features little furry puppets called Gonks.

Music

6

The Bank Raiders

Oct 01, 1958

The Bank Raiders

1958 62 min 1 vues

A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.

Crime

1

The Man Who Liked Funerals

Jan 01, 1959

The Man Who Liked Funerals

1959 60 min 1 vues

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.

Comedy

6.2

Smashing Time

Dec 20, 1967

Smashing Time

1967 96 min 11 vues

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Comedy

7.2

Band of Thieves

Aug 30, 1962

Band of Thieves

1962 69 min 4 vues

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and clarinets are just a cover for a series of robberies. Musical comedy, starring British jazz star Acker Bilk as himself, alongside Jimmy Thompson and Jennifer Jayne.

Crime

7.189

La solitude du coureur de fond

Sep 20, 1962

La solitude du coureur de fond

1962 104 min 148 vues

Colin Smith est un jeune révolté, qui, à la suite d’un vol commis dans une boutique, est placé dans un centre d'éducation surveillée. Pratiquant la course de fond, il s’évade en rêveries de son morne quotidien durant ses courses solitaires. Il gagne sa notoriété dans l'établissement grâce à ses performances de coureur et prend le parti de suivre les ambitions qu’a pour lui Ruxton Towers, le directeur du centre…

Drama

6.1

My Brother's Keeper

Aug 19, 1948

My Brother's Keeper

1948 86 min 9 vues

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

Drama

5.6

It's Trad, Dad!

Mar 30, 1962

It's Trad, Dad!

1962 78 min 13 vues

The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.

Comedy

6.1

Double Confession

Apr 30, 1950

Double Confession

1950 86 min 13 vues

The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.

Thriller

7

Ladies Who Do

Nov 01, 1963

Ladies Who Do

1963 85 min 12 vues

The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.

Comedy

5.8

Les Trafiquants de la nuit

Aug 27, 1957

Les Trafiquants de la nuit

1957 88 min 23 vues

Harry Miller et toute sa famille s'installent en Angleterre. Là-bas, il se laisse séduire par une mystérieuse jeune femme qui l'entraîne dans de mauvaises histoires...

Crime

6

There Is Another Sun

Jun 12, 1951

There Is Another Sun

1951 93 min 1 vues

Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.

Crime

6.3

Crooks Anonymous

Mar 31, 1962

Crooks Anonymous

1962 88 min 21 vues

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Comedy

5.3

Women of Twilight

Jan 16, 1953

Women of Twilight

1953 89 min 6 vues

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.

Drama

6.5

Ecole de secrets

Dec 23, 1946

Ecole de secrets

1946 108 min 2 vues

Pendant WW2, à la veille de la bataille de la Grande-Bretagne, les scientifiques britanniques développent les premiers systèmes de radar à employer contre la Luftwaffe allemande.

Drama

5.955

Father Came Too!

Feb 11, 1964

Father Came Too!

1964 91 min 11 vues

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

Comedy

6

Oh... Rosalinda!!

Nov 21, 1955

Oh... Rosalinda!!

1955 101 min 12 vues

In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.

Music

6.1

To the Public Danger

Sep 01, 1948

To the Public Danger

1948 43 min 9 vues

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

Drama

1

Three for All

May 01, 1975

Three for All

1975 90 min 1 vues

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

Music

6

My Teenage Daughter

Jun 20, 1956

My Teenage Daughter

1956 100 min 3 vues

Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.

Drama

6.6

Le paradis des monte-en-l'air

Dec 20, 1960

Le paradis des monte-en-l'air

1960 84 min 44 vues

Synopsis Alors qu'il séjournent dans une prison aux méthodes basées sur la douceur et l'apprentissage des métiers, trois détenus projettent de commettre des vols, tout en s'évadant et réintégrant leurs cellules, afin que, une fois sortis, ils soient riches et insoupçonnables. Ils réussissent plusieurs fois l'exploit mais, très vite, perdent leur magot...

Comedy

7.5

Oliver Twist

Jun 28, 1948

Oliver Twist

1948 116 min 229 vues

Oliver Twist, dont la mère est morte en le mettant au monde, est confié à un orphelinat à la discipline draconienne. Placé en apprentissage, il est maltraité et décide de s'enfuir à Londres. Il tombe sous la coupe du redoutable Fagin, qui dirige une bande d'enfants voleurs et vit à leurs dépens...

Drama

5.6

Ne me Quitte Jamais

Mar 18, 1953

Ne me Quitte Jamais

1953 94 min 17 vues

Alors qu'il mène une vie comblée en URSS, Philip Sutherland, un journaliste américain, est contraint de quitter le pays... Seul problème, il vient tout juste de se marier à Moscou avec une danseuse étoile. Le couple, fou amoureux l'un de l'autre, serait donc séparé car Marya n'est pas autorisée à partir avec son époux. Celui-ci va donc tout tenter, même le plus dangereux, pour ne pas perdre sa femme et l'emmener avec lui.

Romance

5.2

Time Bomb

Feb 05, 1953

Time Bomb

1953 73 min 19 vues

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.

Thriller

6

The Galloping Major

May 07, 1951

The Galloping Major

1951 82 min 8 vues

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

Comedy

1

Arthur's Treasured Volumes

Jun 06, 1960

Arthur's Treasured Volumes

1960 min 1 vues

Arthur's Treasured Volumes was a black-and-white British television series that aired on ITV in 1960. Starring Arthur Askey, it was written by Dave Freeman and was made for the ITV network by ATV. All episodes are missing having been presumed wiped during the 1960s, although part of the first episode "A Blow In Anger" was recovered by Paul Stroud and shown at the National Film Theatre in November 2003.

5.7

Romany Jones

Jul 11, 1975

Romany Jones

1975 min 3 vues

Romany Jones is a British sitcom made by LWT, It starred Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts as Wally and Lily Briggs and was broadcast between 1973 and 1975, The show was originally designed as a vehicle for James Beck, involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Following the death of Beck in August 1973, aged just 44, Bert and Betty Jones were written out of the series, and Jonathan Cecil and Gay Soper took over the lead roles, playing new neighbours, Jeremy and Susan Crichton-Jones. The show had a pilot broadcast in 1972 and was followed by a spin off sequel in 1976 entitled Yus, My Dear, starring Mullard and Watts.

Comedy

1

The Arthur Askey Show

Apr 22, 1961

The Arthur Askey Show

1961 min 1 vues

The Arthur Askey Show was a short-lived black-and-white British sitcom starring Arthur Askey that ran for six episodes in 1961. It was written by Dave Freeman. It was made for the ITV network by ATV.

5.5

From a Bird's Eye View

Apr 21, 1971

From a Bird's Eye View

1971 min 2 vues

From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pushed it back to the 1970-71 season as a mid-season replacement. The series followed two International Airlines stewardesses, a scatterbrained Briton and a savvy American, as they flew the London-European routes. The series ran for 16 25-minute colour episodes. The series was not a big success in either the UK or the US, but ITC re-used the format for the Shirley MacLaine series Shirley's World. That show also flopped, but ran to one more episode than From a Bird's Eye View.

Comedy

3.7

No Hiding Place

Jun 22, 1967

No Hiding Place

1967 min 3 vues

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

Crime

7.5

Hancock's Half Hour

Jun 30, 1961

Hancock's Half Hour

1961 min 6 vues

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

Comedy

1

A Series Of Bird's

Nov 21, 1967

A Series Of Bird's

1967 min 1 vues

5.333

Yus, My Dear

Nov 26, 1976

Yus, My Dear

1976 min 3 vues

Wally and Lil Briggs have moved from the caravan site where they lived for many years and now live in a council house. Wally has even got a well-paid job on a building site and life is looking good for them. The arrival of Benny, Wally's younger brother, spoils their happiness as he sponges off Wally while looking for a permanent place to stay. Lil is all too aware of his tricks even if the gullible Wally is not ...

Comedy