Philip Saville
Director · 1930 – 2016 · London, UK
Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Saville had flown over to the UK specifically to take part in the play. Other notable programmes on which Saville worked included Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet. In film Saville directed The Fruit Machine (1988, released as Wonderland in the USA), Metroland (1997) and The Gospel of John (2003). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie5.2CrimeInterpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.2DramaFour people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
To the Public Danger
1948 · 10 votes
- Movie7.0DramaCrime
An ex-boxer on the run from gangsters for refusing to throw a fight, helps a garage owner and his daughter to improve their business.
On the Run
1958 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyFantasySet in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
A Piece of Cake
1948 · 4 votes
Movie6.1DramaMysteryA glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
Penny and the Pownall Case
1948 · 5 votes
Movie5.8DramaJustice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.
The Blind Goddess
1948 · 7 votes
Movie7.2DramaTwo small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
Bang! You're Dead
1954 · 4 votes
Movie6.2CrimeDramaAn FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
Contraband Spain
1955 · 8 votes
MovieDramaHorrorBased on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, a young reprobate who visits a jeweler with the intention of killing and robbing him, but has an ugly interview with himself before a mirror and quickly changes his mind.
Movie6.7CrimeThree men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
Three Crooked Men
1958 · 3 votes
Movie6.3ThrillerA newly married man is convicted of murdering a former lover in his apartment, and sentenced to hang. With a payout on his life worth 20,000 pounds, the insurance company sends an investigator to find out the truth.
The Straw Man
1953 · 3 votes
Movie6.3WarCrimeFourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
The Betrayal
1957 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerMysteryA police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Murder at 3am
1953 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
An Honourable Murder
1960 · 3 votes