Biography: Jack Warner |
British character actor Jack Warner began his film career in the early '40s. He is usually cast as a sympathetic fellow and occasionally played leads. Before coming to film, he worked as a comedian. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide more
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Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
Cast: Michael Caine Paul Scofield Virginia McKenna Billie Whitelaw
Tags: Spy Film War Drama War Spy Film War Resistance Film
Length: 119min
The true story of Violette Szabo, a heroine of the Second World War for her espionage activities on behalf of the British government. Born Violette Bushell (Virginia McKenna) to a French mother and an English father, she chances to meet Etienne Szabo...
Cast: Janette Scott Mario Zampi Pamela Brown
Length: 90min
Now and Forever is a very slight piece, buoyed by the charm and attractiveness of its young stars. Janette Scott and Vernon Grey play Janette Grant and Mike Pritchard, who fall in love despite the objections of Janette's wealthy parents. Realizing...
Tags: Thriller Crime Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 85min
Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick is determined that the drug traffic will not spread into his territory. He finds an unexpected ally in Joyce Grenfell, an...
Cast: Val Guest
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 107min
Jigsaw was based on Hilary Waugh's play +Sleep Long My Love. The scene is Brighton: A woman's body is found in an isolated beach house. The local constabulary painstakingly assemble the "jigsaw" of random clues to reconstruct the woman's history and...
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Tags: Alien Film Science Fiction Thriller Sci-Fi Horror
Length: 82min
A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), a forceful, misanthropic American scientist, the Q-1 had three astronauts aboard when it left Earth, but...
Cast: William Sylvester Malcolm Arnold Robert Beatty
Tags: War War Drama Escape Film
Length: 88min
The title character of Albert, R.N is portrayed by-well, by no one. Albert is a papier-mache dummy, constructed by the British inmates of a German POW camp. The dummy is used as a diversion in a daring escape plan. Anthony Steel plays the mastermind...
Cast: Anthony Asquith
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 91min
This British comedy centers around the game of Cricket. It is set as the British team and their legendary cricket player Sam Palmer, prepare for a big match with the Australians. It will be his swan song in the game. His son Reggie, a fledgling poet,...
Cast: Basil Dearden Michael Relph George Rose Bill Travers
Tags: Sports Drama
Length: 73min
The contentious world of prizefighting provides the setting of this episodic drama that chronicles the lives of five different fighters. Each of the fighters explains their reasons for becoming professional pugilists. One of the fighters, Kid Curtis,...
Cast: Gordon Harker Derek Farr Philip Saville Michael Medwin
Tags: Childhood Drama Mystery Adventure Action Detective Film
Length: 88min
In the tradition of The Window (1949) and The Yellow Balloon, Bang! You're Dead juxtaposes the innocence of childhood with the bleak realities of the adult world. Two rural British youngsters come across an abandoned gun. One of the boys accidentally...
Tags: Medical Drama Drama
Length: 88min
The Hundred Hour Hunt was originally released in Britain as Emergency, then as Emergency Call. A woman lies in a hospital near death. She needs a transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare. It's up to Inspector Lane (Jack Warner) to track down...
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