Biography: Donald Houston |
Hardworking Welsh actor Donald Houston would sometimes indulge his Welsh accent as well as hide it behind an English public school veneer. Houston had a solid career as a character actor in English film and television, with good parts in several... more
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Cast: Louis Gossett, Jr. Laurence Naismith
Length: 100min
Jackie (Margaret Brooks) is presented an African bush baby as a lovely parting gift from Tembo (Louis Gossett Jr.). She tries to board an outbound ship with her father and the annoying, squalling animal. Jackie jumps ship to plant the animal in a...
Cast: Donald Houston John Newland
Tags: Psychological Drama Family Drama Drama
Length: 96min
The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert (Donald Houston). When her lover is accidentally drowned, Frances turns to her teenaged son James (Dennis Waterman) for...
Cast: Niall MacGinnis Patrick Troughton Don Murray Andrew Keir
Tags: Adventure Sword-and-Sandal Historical Film
Length: 91min
Set in first century England, The Viking Queen is a loose retelling of the legend of Boadicea (also sometimes known as Boudica), the queen of the native Britons, who were known as the Iceni. In the year 60 A.D., the Roman governor general Justinian...
The Prince and the Pauper (1962)
Tags: Drama
Length: 93min
Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons learned by two disparate and discontented look-a-likes who swear that the grass really is greener on the other side of the...
Cast: Nadia Gray Kerwin Mathews Donald Pleasence
Tags: Thriller
Length: 86min
An American artist travels to rural France for a relaxing vacation and ends up falling for a lovely young woman, whose father is the owner of a cafe. Unfortunately, her father is not in town, as he is locked up in the local looney bin for immolating...
Cast: Desmond Dickinson
Tags: Thriller Mystery Detective Film
Length: 94min
In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack the Ripper in this well-made and exciting mystery produced, written and directed by James Hill. In this adaptation of the...
Cast: Cliff Robertson
Tags: Combat Films Action
Length: 102min
Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris star in this dumbed-down version of The Guns of Navarone. During World War II, the story concerns a Scandinavian underground leader, Erik Bergman (George Chakiris), who reports to British authorities the location of...
Cast: Juliet Mills
Tags: Adventure Comedy Sea Adventure Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 91min
Carry on Venus was originally titled Carry On Jack. A parody of seafaring epics, this one takes place in 1805 (give or take a few years). Kenneth Williams stars as Captain Fearless, doing battle against pirates, mutineers and the Spanish Armada (in...
Twice Round the Daffodils (1962)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 89min
This entertaining farce is from the director who brought the world the highly successful "Carry On..." comedies -- Gerald Thomas -- and exhibits some of his hand at slapstick situations. The premise, based on the play ~Ring for Catty, is hardly...
Cast: Rod Steiger
Tags: Crime Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 127min
Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered by sex. After an affair with a woman his own age ends badly, Mark finds himself increasingly drawn to young girls, who he...
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