Appointment in London 1953  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Philip Leacock
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bill Kerr, Bryan Forbes, William Sylvester, Anne Leon, Walter Fitzgerald, Terence Longdon
This is a very good story of a British bomber squadron on raids from their home in England during World War II. Nearing retirement after many dangerous missions, Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) starts showing the strain.
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The Colditz Story 1955  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Ian Carmichael, Richard Wattis, David Yates, Frederick Valk, Denis Shaw, Anton Diffring, Eugene Deckers
During World War II, Germany used "escape proof" Colditz Castle to imprison the Allied officers who tried to escape from conventional camps. This is the true story of Maj. P.R. "Pat" Reid (John Mills) about his successful attempt to escape from Colditz through a subterranean tunnel.
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 The Guns of Navarone 1961  N/R, 157 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas, Gia Scala, James Darren, James Robertson Justice, Richard Harris, Bryan Forbes, Allan Cuthbertson, Michael Trubshawe, Percy Herbert, George Mikell
This film is at the top in both quality and action for the World War II genre. It involves a multinational force commanded by Major Franklin (Anthony Quayle). The commandos are ordered to blow up two immense German guns that are guarding the sea against the arrival of Allied troop transports. The film won an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, and there were six other nominations, including Best Picture and Director.
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International Velvet 1978 PG, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth, Dinsdale Landen, Sarah Bullen, Jeffrey Byron
In this sequel to "National Velvet," Tatum O'Neal plays Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah Brown. Sarah, like her Aunt Velvet (Nanette Newman) before her, enters the Olympics and takes home the gold medal for her equestrian event.
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The Key 1958 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Oskar Homolka, Kieron Moore, Bernard Lee, Noel Purcell, Bryan Forbes, James Hayter, John Crawford
In this, Sophia Loren's first British film, she plays "Stella," a kept woman, whose key is passed from one naval officer to the next one who arrives in port during World War II.
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King Rat 1965 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, Todd Armstrong, John Mills, Leonard Rossiter, Gerald Sim, John Standing, Alan Webb
Based on James Clavell's novel, the story takes place in a Japanese POW camp during World War II. Corporal King (George Segal) is quite a schemer and has a number of rackets going on, including selling rats to fellow prisoners for food. When he finds out that prisoner Peter Marlowe (James Fox) can speak Malay, the language of the locals, he sees an opportunity to expand his business. Academy award nominations were received for Black and White Cinematography and Art Direction.
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The L-Shaped Room 1963 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Emlyn Williams, Patricia Phoenix, Harry Locke, Bernard Lee, Kay Walsh, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Leslie Caron deftly portrays a single, French woman, June, who is pregnant–but not alone. Living in a London boarding house, she intermingles with the other residents as she tries to make sense out of her predicament. Caron received an Oscar nomination.
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The League of Gentlemen 1960 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Richard Attenborough, Bryan Forbes, Kieron Moore, Terence Alexander, David Lodge, Patrick Wymark, Robert Coote
To aid in his efforts to rob a bank, ex-Army Colonel Hyde (Jack Hawkins) recruits former officers and uses military discipline with great success.
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The Madwoman of Chaillot 1969  G, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans, Danny Kaye, Paul Henreid, Margaret Leighton, Richard Chamberlain, Yul Brynner, Donald Pleasence
The eccentric countess, Aurelia (Katharine Hepburn) tries to fight those who, for greed, would destroy a section of Paris in the name of progress. Good caste can't help this one.
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The Million Pound Note 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man with a Million
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffith, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Thesiger, A.E. Matthews, Maurice Denham, Bryan Forbes
Based on the Mark Twain fable, this is the story of a poor American in London who receives a million pound note and the problems he encounters during the month he is to keep it in his possession.
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Quatermass II 1957 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
aka: Enemy from Space
Director: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James, Bryan Forbes, Vera Day, William Franklyn, Charles Lloyd Pack, Percy Herbert, John Van Eyssen, Michael Ripper
Aliens invade and take over human bodies in this "Quatermass" episode featuring Brian Donlevy in the role of the gruff Dr. Quatermass.
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The Raging Moon 1971 PG, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: Long Ago, Tomorrow
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim, Michael Flanders, Margery Mason, Barry Jackson, Geoffrey Whitehead, Chris Chittell, Jack Woolgar, Norman Bird, Geoffrey Bayldon, Constance Chapman
Bruce Pitchard (Malcolm McDowell) was injured in a soccer game and is now confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. While at the home, Bruce meets and falls in love with Jill (Nanette Newman) who has been crippled by polio. While Bruce learns much from Jill about living with adversity, living happily ever after is just not in the cards.
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Sea Devils 1953  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea, Michael Goodliffe, Bryan Forbes, Jacques B. Brunius, Ivor Barnard, Arthur Wontner, Gerard Oury, Larry Taylor, Keith Pyott
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story revolves around the efforts of British agent Drouette (Yvonne De Carlo) who is trying to get close enough to spy on Napoleon (Gerard Oury). She runs into smuggler Gilliatt (Rock Hudson), and the two of them try to outsmart each other. But, by story's end, Gilliatt rescues Drouette and, in the process, saves England from an invasion by the French.
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon 1964 N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden, Nanette Newman, Judith Donner, Patrick Magee, Gerald Sim, Margaret Lacey, Maria Kazan, Lionel Gamlin
Kim Stanley was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role of Myra Savage, a fake medium, who hatches a plot to kidnap young Amanda Clayton (Judith Donner). She then plans to offer her "clairvoyant" abilities to the Claytons as the means of locating Amanda and bringing her home–for a price.
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 The Stepford Wives 1975 PG, 115 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Fantasy
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Josef Sommer, Mary Stuart Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, John Aprea, William Prince, Carol Eve Rossen, Carol Mallory, Judith Baldwin, Barbara Rucker, Toni Reid
Ira Levin's best-selling novel is brought to the screen as mysteries unfold behind the personalities of "perfect" housewives in the town of Stepford, Connecticut. Joanna (Katherine Ross) and Walter (Peter Masterson) move with their children to Stepford to enjoy what they believe is an ideal suburban community. But, Stepford has a dark secret: the husbands are replacing their wives with robots that will perform domestic tasks and exist only to please their husbands. Will Joanna be able to escape this nightmare?
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The Wooden Horse 1950 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Lee
Cast: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene, Peter Burton, Patrick Waddington, Michael Goodliffe, Anthony Dawson, Bryan Forbes, Dan Cunningham, Peter Finch, Hans Meyer, Jacques B. Brunius
During World War II, British soldiers find an way to escape from their German POW camp by digging a tunnel under a wooden vaulting horse used for exercising. After digging for months, they escape and now must find the way out of enemy territory on their way to freedom.
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The World in His Arms 1952 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
Director: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Eugenie Leontovich, Hans Conried, Rhys Williams, Sig Ruman, Carl Esmond, Gregory Gaye, Bill Radovich, Bryan Forbes, Henry Kulky, Gregg Barton
Set in the 1850s, this film is about a sea captain, Jonathan Clark (Gregory Peck), who illegally hunts seals. He falls in love with a beautiful Russian princess, the Countess Marina (Ann Blyth), while helping her flee from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon (Carl Esmond). Now, Clark and the Countess are about to wed, but the Countess is kidnapped by Prince Semyon and taken to Alaska. After recovering from a drunken stupor, Clark races fellow seal hunter Portugee (Anthony Quinn) to Alaska, but they are both arrested by the Russians. In an effort to save them, Countess Marina says she will marry Semyon when he orders the release of Clark and Portugee.
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The Wrong Box 1966 PG, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Nanette Newman, Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers, Cicely Courtneidge, Peter Graves
Based loosely on a story co-authored by Robert Louis Stevenson, this gag-filled farce concerns two brothers who haven't seen each other for over 40 years. They were among 12 children whose parents each put up money, now drawing interest, which will go to the last survivor. The two brothers are the last ones and each awaits getting his hands on the money. John Mills and Ralph Richardson are great as the two brothers.
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| 1. All Over the Town (1949)
2. Appointment in London (1953)
3. The Colditz Story (1955)
4. Deadfall (1968)
5. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
6. International Velvet (1978)
7. The Key (1958)
8. King Rat (1965)
9. The L-Shaped Room (1963)
10. The League of Gentlemen (1960)
11. The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
12. The Million Pound Note (1954)
aka: Man with a Million
13. The Naked Face (1984)
14. Quatermass II (1957)
aka: Enemy from Space
15. The Raging Moon (1971)
aka: Long Ago, Tomorrow
16. Sea Devils (1953)
17. Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
18. The Stepford Wives (1975)
19. The Wooden Horse (1950)
20. The World in His Arms (1952)
21. The Wrong Box (1966)
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