Douglas Ives

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• Movie6.3

  AdventureScience Fiction

  The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew comprised of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria, proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

  First Men in the Moon

  1964 · 150 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

  Doctor in the House

  1954 · 31 votes

• Movie7.5

  Drama

  A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

  Innocent Sinners

  1958 · 4 votes

• Movie6.1

  Comedy

  A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.

  No Kidding

  1960 · 9 votes

• Movie6.3

  Comedy

  "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

  Doctor in Distress

  1963 · 16 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  A Home of Your Own is a 1964 British comedy film which is a brick-by-brick account of the building a young couple’s dream house. From the day when the site is first selected, to the day – several years and children later – when the couple finally move in, the story is a noisy but wordless comedy of errors as the incompetent labourers struggle to complete the house. It may well have been inspired by the success of Bernard Cribbins' classic song of the same vein from two years earlier, "Right Said Fred". In this satirical look at British builders, many cups of tea are made, windows are broken and the same section of road is dug up over and over again by the water board, the electricity board and the gas board. Ronnie Barker’s put-upon cement mixer, Peter Butterworth’s short-sighted carpenter and Bernard Cribbins’ hapless stonemason all contribute to the ensuing chaos.

  A Home of Your Own

  1964 · 7 votes

• Movie6.0

  Comedy

  Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford) a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl who can offer him the experience he lacks. Every time Alan tries a manful stride into the jungle of sex, his two left feet turn the attempt into a trip-and-stumble. Then he meets Eileen (Nyree Dawn Porter), the new waitress at the corner cafe, who signal unmistakable messages with her large inviting eyes.

  Two Left Feet

  1963 · 2 votes

• Movie6.2

  Comedy

  After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.

  Carry On Regardless

  1961 · 57 votes

• Movie6.3

  Comedy

  'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?

  Raising the Wind

  1961 · 11 votes

• Movie6.8

  DramaCrime

  Tom Murray's wedding day takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious woman arrives uninvited and claims to be his wife.

  Two Wives at One Wedding

  1961 · 5 votes

• Movie6.6

  Drama

  Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?

  What Every Woman Wants

  1954 · 5 votes

• Movie5.5

  Comedy

  Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

  Doctor in Love

  1960 · 18 votes

• Movie6.1

  ComedyRomance

  At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

  Left Right and Centre

  1959 · 14 votes

• Movie6.6

  Comedy

  The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

  The Iron Maiden

  1963 · 9 votes

• Movie10.0

  Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.

  Room in the House

  1955 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  To beautify his street and trim city spending, stuffy councilman Jack (Francis Matthews) pushes to have the last gas lamp in town removed. But this angers his neighbors Albert (Ian Fleming) and Victoria (Amy Dalby), an inconspicuous pair of serial killers who choose Jack as their next victim. This dark comedy also stars Lisa Daniely as Mary, a local advocate who fights tooth and nail against Jack's modernization efforts.

  The Lamp in Assassin Mews

  1962 · 4 votes

• Movie5.7

  ComedyRomance

  Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).

  Doctor at Large

  1957 · 25 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  A young couple get involved with a smuggler

  Brandy for the Parson

  1952 · 8 votes

• Movie6.9

  CrimeThriller

  Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

  Forbidden Cargo

  1954 · 8 votes

• Movie5.7

  ActionThriller

  Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

  High Treason

  1951 · 11 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyDrama

  After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

  In the Doghouse

  1962 · 7 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaMusic

  A couple inherit a hotel with no guests until their son's pop group turns things around.

  Be My Guest

  1965 · 5 votes

• Movie4.2

  Crime

  A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.

  The Big Chance

  1957 · 4 votes