Philip Latham

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From a Far Country
3.9

From a Far Country

Sep 15, 1981
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
Drama
Les pirates du diable
5.82

Les pirates du diable

Aug 01, 1964
En juillet 1588, l'Invincible Armada est mise en déroute par la flotte britannique sur la mer de la Manche. Le capitaine Robeles, un pirate espagnol qui s'était enrôlé avec son équipage au sein de l'Armada, décide d'aborder les côtes de Cornouailles afin de réparer son navire, durement touché. Il réquisitionne main-d'œuvre et nourriture dans un village proche, faisant croire à ses habitants que les Espagnols sont vainqueurs. Si le châtelain du village, Sir Basil, collabore pleinement, d'autres — comme Tom et son fils Harry — organisent la résistance...
Action
L'ouragan vient de Navarone
6.2
Après une dangereuse mission sur l'île de Navarone, le major Mallory et le sergent Miller doivent se rendre en Yougoslavie pour démasquer un traître qui a infiltré les partisans.
Drama
Spy Story
5.5

Spy Story

Jan 01, 1976
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.
Drama
Ring of Spies
6.9

Ring of Spies

Mar 23, 1964
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
Drama
Les Briseurs de barrages
6.8
En 1942, alors que l'Angleterre ne cesse d'être victime des raids aériens allemands, l'ingénieur Barnes N. Wallis étudie le moyen de faire sauter les trois barrages de la Moehne sur la Ruhr. Seule une bombe explosant au fond de l'eau pourra, l'onde de choc aidant, ébranler la formidable maçonnerie. Wallis parvient à ses fins en imaginant un engin cylindrique de cinq tonnes qui, lâché à une vitesse précise et une distance bien déterminée, rebondira par ricochets sur la surface de l'eau pour couler au pied du barrage. Après plusieurs tentatives infructueuses sur des maquettes, Wallis réussit à faire adopter son projet par la R.A.F. grâce à l'intervention du général Arthur Harris. Aidé du commandant Whitworth, le lieutenant-colonel Gibson, à la tête d'un imposant groupe d'aviateurs, met au point la technique très délicate du bombardement...
Drama
Left Right and Centre
5.6

Left Right and Centre

Jun 23, 1959
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
Comedy
The Man from the Pru
1

The Man from the Pru

Jun 30, 1990
The 20 January 1931 slaying of Julia Wallace remains unsolved, despite an ongoing stream of investigative writers giving an impression that a solution to the crime has been found through a surfeit of working hypotheses.
Drama
Le secret de l’île sanglante
1
Dans les îles du Pacifique, en 1944, aux alentours d'un camp de prisonniers anglais, un avion est abattu et son pilote se cache dans la jungle. Les japonais partent à la recherche du fugitif qui est, en réalité, une jeune femme investie d'une importante mission dont le but est l'anéantissement de la résistance déjà affaiblie des nippons. Les prisonniers anglais recueillent la jeune femme et, en attendant de la faire passer dans une zone moins dangereuse, la cachent, habillée en homme, parmi eux...
Drama
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
7.8
Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon.
Science Fiction
Name for the Day
1

Name for the Day

Dec 16, 1980
Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive does something that makes her realise he means it.
Drama
The Two Faces of Evil
5.2

The Two Faces of Evil

Nov 29, 1980
A family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
Horror
Destination Danger
7.4

Destination Danger

Jan 12, 1968
John Drake (Patrick McGoohan), solitaire et non violent, jamais armé, préférant utiliser son intelligence. Néanmoins, tout comme James Bond, il est équipé de gadgets mis au point par le service pour lequel il travaille. Très apprécié par ses supérieurs pour son efficacité, il lui arrive cependant de s'opposer à eux et d'aller à l'encontre de leurs ordres, quand il estime qu'ils ont tort.
Action & Adventure
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
7.7
John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
UFO, alerte dans l'espace
7.6
En 1980, la Terre est menacée d'invasion par une race extraterrestre en voie d'extinction. Seule une organisation secrète militaire, appelée le SHADO (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization), dont le quartier-général est camouflé sous les studios de cinéma Harlington-Straker en Angleterre peut empêcher cette invasion... Pour cela, cette organisation dispose d'une base lunaire, d'un véhicule amphibie à la fois sous-marin et avion, et de véhicules tout-terrain d'intervention.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Scales of Justice
6.7

The Scales of Justice

Mar 01, 1967
Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.
Crime
Les Professionnels
7.4

Les Professionnels

Feb 06, 1983
Cette série met en scène les aventures de William Bodie et Raymond Doyle deux des meilleurs agents du CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), une organisation secrète chargée de maintenir la sécurité en Angleterre dont le patron est l'irascible George Cowley.
Action & Adventure
Le Saint
7.303

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969
Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure
The Wednesday Play
4.5

The Wednesday Play

May 27, 1970
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Drama
Les Aventures de Robin Des Bois
6.4
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
Action & Adventure
No Hiding Place
3.7

No Hiding Place

Jun 22, 1967
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
The Pallisers
6.7

The Pallisers

Nov 02, 1974
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
Drama
Play for Today
5.9

Play for Today

Aug 28, 1984
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
The Fourth Arm
5

The Fourth Arm

Mar 25, 1983
The twelve-part serial dealt with secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during the Second World War, following their progress through initial recruitment and training, and finally their first mission in enemy territory.
Drama
The Cedar Tree
1

The Cedar Tree

Sep 24, 1978
The Cedar Tree was a television serial that ran from 1976-1979 on ITV in the United Kingdom. It involved the story of the Bourne family, hailing from an aristocratic background, before the turn of the Second World War. The Cedar Tree was an ATV Production and recorded at the ATV Centre, Birmingham. Two established cast members were the veteran actress Joyce Carey and Susan Skipper, who played one of the Bourne family's daughters. In February 2013 it was announced the first 1976 series was to be released on DVD.
ITV Play of the Week
4

ITV Play of the Week

Sep 18, 1967
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.
Leaving
5

Leaving

Jun 13, 1985
The forbidden love between a middle-aged family woman and a callow youth working in the same hotel.
Maigret
6.9

Maigret

Dec 24, 1963
Maigret (titre original) est une série télévisée policière britannique, en quatre saisons et cinquante-deux épisodes (+ un épisode pilote), diffusée originellement de 1960 à 1963. Les enquêtes du commissaire Jules Maigret, basées sur les romans de Georges Simenon.
Crime
Detective
1

Detective

Nov 09, 1969
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
Crime
Justice
5

Justice

Apr 08, 2011
Justice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode was originally broadcast on 4 April 2011 on BBC One.
Drama
The Troubleshooters
5

The Troubleshooters

Jan 03, 1972
The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.
Drama
The Human Jungle
8.2

The Human Jungle

Dec 21, 1964
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
Doctor Who
7.864

Doctor Who

Dec 06, 1989
Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement britannique ressemblant à une cabine téléphonique), le système de camouflage étant resté bloqué. Comme tous les Seigneur du Temps, le Docteur possède treize vies, ce qui explique sa capacité à changer de corps lorsqu'il est proche de la mort.
Drama
Le Saint
7.303

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969
Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure
Justice
6

Justice

Aug 16, 1974
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Drama