Olwen Brookes
Actor · 1901 – 1976 · Chelsea, London, England, UK
Movies18
Movie7.7DramaActionThe sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
A Night to Remember
1958 · 304 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryAt the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · 59 votes
Movie6.1HorrorMysteryA French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Eye of the Devil
1966 · 63 votes
Movie6.7ComedyNutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
The Happiest Days of Your Life
1950 · 43 votes
Movie7.0ComedyTwice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Twice Round the Daffodils
1962 · 8 votes
Movie6.4ActionAdventureJohn, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
The Black Knight
1954 · 11 votes
Movie7.2CrimeDramaAn upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
An Inspector Calls
1954 · 112 votes
Movie7.0MusicDramaTottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Trottie True
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.1ComedyRomanceAt 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
Movie7.0TV MovieAnimationA poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.
Under Milk Wood
1992 · 2 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaA British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals.
Something Money Can't Buy
1952 · 3 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyThe story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
The Good Companions
1957 · 1 votes
Movie6.5HistoryThe story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
The First Gentleman
1948 · 4 votes
Movie5.7RomanceAt the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Appointment with Venus
1951 · 9 votes
Movie6.4MusicHistoryThe life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
After the Ball
1957 · 5 votes
Movie6.8DramaFollowing a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
The Feminine Touch
1956 · 6 votes
Movie6.7MysteryA British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
The High Terrace
1956 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0Family
The story of the attempted kidnapping of the son of a visiting African potentate.
On the Run
1968 · 1 votes
Series1
TV8.5DramaThe Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
The Forsyte Saga
1967 · 8 votes