Basil Dearden Movies

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis),...

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

A day following workers at an airport

Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.