Sidney Gilliat

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

Cast: Frankie Howerd Eric Barker   

Tags: Comedy Crime Comedy Slapstick 

Length: 90min

Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul...

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Only Two Can Play (1962)

Cast: Richard Attenborough Peter Sellers Kenneth Griffith Sidney Gilliat   

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy 

Length: 106min

Welsh librarian John Lewis (Peter Sellers), unhappily married to Jean Lewis (Virginia Maskell), falls in love with the glamorous Elizabeth Gruffydd Williams (Mai Zetterling). Zetterling is likewise saddled with a dull spouse, wealthy Vernon...

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She Played With Fire (1957)

Tags: Crime Drama 

Length: 95min

Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he makes a business call, to assess the damage from a fire, on Tracey Moreton (Dennis Price) and meets Morton's wife Sarah (Arlene...

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Left, Right and Center (1959)

Tags: Political Satire Comedy Romance 

Length: 95min

This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a group of political managers who talk him into running on the Conservative ticket during a political campaign. The managers...

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The Great Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)

Cast: Maurice Evans   

Tags: Docudrama Biopic Musical 

Length: 105min

Robert Morley and Maurice Evans play W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, 19th-century composers of such imperishable comic operettas as ~H.M.S. Pinafore, ~Pirates of Penzance and ~The Mikado. Much is made of the inescapable fact that Gilbert and...

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The Constant Husband (1955)

Cast: Rex Harrison   

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 84min

Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better...

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The Great Manhunt (1949)

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Jack Hawkins   

Tags: Political Thriller Thriller 

Length: 97min

It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the two former Hitchcock collaborators responsible for the screenplay of The Master's The Lady Vanishes...

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Dulcimer Street (1948)

Cast: Alastair Sim Muir Mathieson   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 112min

Assembled by the reliable team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, London Belongs to Me stars Richard Attenborough as a young, full-of-beans boy looking for fun. Bursting into a staid, wearisome London neighborhood, Attenborough exhorts the others to...

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Green for Danger (1947)

Cast: Trevor Howard Rosamund John   

Tags: Whodunit Police Detective Film Mystery 

Length: 91min

At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses who was present announces that the man's death was no accident, but a murder -- and then she, too, is murdered. The police are...

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