The Adventurers 1951  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Fortune in Diamonds
The Great Adventure
Director: David MacDonald
Cast: Dennis Price, Jack Hawkins, Siobhan McKenna, Peter Hammond, Gregoire Aslan, Charles Paton, Bernard Lee, Ronald Adam, Martin Boddey, Phillip Ray
Set during the early 1900s, this is the story of a trio of adventurers (Dennis Price, Jack Hawkins, and Siobhan McKenna) in Africa seeking a stolen treasure of jewels.
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A Canterbury Tale 1944  N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet, Esmond Knight, Charles Hawtrey, Hay Petrie, George Merritt, Edward Rigby, Freda Jackson, Betty Jardine, Eliot Makeham
Along the road to Canterbury, "Land Girl" Alison Smith (Sheila Sim), U.S. Army Sgt. Bob Johnson (Sergeant John Sweet), and British soldier Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price) become involved with a local prankster, "Glue Man," when he dumps glue on Alison's hair. The mysterious local magistrate (Eric Portman) helps as the trio tries to track down "Glue Man." In the process, they learn about the past and present English countryside, which ultimately leads to answers to their own personal troubles.
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Curse of Simba 1965  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Curse of the Voodoo
Lion Man
Director: Lindsay Shonteff
Cast: Bryant Haliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Mary Kerridge, John Witty, Jean Lodge, Dennis Alaba Peters, Danny Daniels, Tony Thawnton, Louis Mahoney, Michael Nightingale
Mike (Bryant Haliday) kills a lion while on a hunting trip in Africa. There is one small problem: the lion was sacred to a cult of lion-worshipers, and the Chief places a curse on Mike. When he returns to London, Mike experiences violent hallucinations, and the only way out of his curse is to return to Africa and kill the Chief.
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Danger Within 1959  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Breakout
Director: Don Chaffey
Cast: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston, William Franklyn, Vincent Ball, Peter Arne, Hazel Court
A pretty good tale of British POWs attempting to break out of a prison camp during World War II. There must be a traitor amongst them.
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Dracula Contra Frankenstein 1972 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Screaming Dead
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: Howard Vernon, Dennis Price, Alberto Dalbes, Fernando Bilbao, Genevieve Robert, Paca Gabaldon, Anne Libert, Mary Frances, Luis Barboo, Josyane Gibert, Britt Nichols
Vampire hunter Seward (Alberto Dalbes) "kills" Dracula (Howard Vernon), but before you know it, Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price), along with his mute helper (Luis Barboo), comes along and revives Dracula by using the blood of a nightclub singer. Certainly, Dr. Frankenstein can soon rule the world by teaming up his Monster (Fernando Bilbao) and Dracula. But along comes a werewolf to do battle, and Dr. Stewart might be heard from again.
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The Earth Dies Screaming 1964  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Horror / Sci-Fi
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Vanda Godsell, Thorley Walters, David Spenser, Anna Palk
When American test pilot Jeff Nolan (Willard Parker) lands in England, he finds it destroyed by alien robots and the victims turned into zombies. But, there are a few survivors, and they work with Nolan to destroy the aliens' transmission station and fend off the invading robots.
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A High Wind in Jamaica 1965 N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Cast: Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Gert Frobe, Lila Kedrova, Kenneth J. Warren, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean
This entertaining film is about the dilemma faced by a Spanish pirate, Chavez (Anthony Quinn), when he discovers seven children aboard his ship.
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Horror Hospital 1973 PG, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Computer Killers
Director: Anthony Balch
Cast: Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock, Skip Martin, Dennis Price, Kurt Christian, Barbara Wendy, Kenneth Benda, Martin Grace
Young pop-singer Jason (Robin Askwith) needs a vacation from his tough schedule, so he heads to a retreat. He meets Judy (Vanessa Shaw), the niece of Aunt Harris (Ellen Pollock), who runs the retreat with her crazed husband, Dr. Storm (Michael Gough). Jason uncovers the REAL story concerning the retreat, as the place abounds with the doctor's monstrous creations. When he finds out that he is to become part of the doctor's mind-control experiments, Jason and Judy, with the help of one of the creatures, attempt to get out.
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I'll Never Forget You 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
aka: The House in the Square
Man of Two Worlds
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, Raymond Huntley, Irene Browne, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Denton, Robert Atkins, Peter Drury
American nuclear physicist Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) is working in England and living in an 18th-century mansion he inherited from an ancestor. One rainy evening, Peter is strolling in the neighborhood when he is hit by lightening. He awakens transported back into the 18th century and is now his own ancestor. While "living" in the past, he meets and falls in love with his cousin Helen (Ann Blyth) and uses his scientific knowledge to help improve 18th-century living conditions. Another thunderstorm shoots Peter back to the 20th century, and he learns from old, family documents that Helen had died before ever marrying. Now his friend Roger (Michael Rennie) introduces him to his sister Martha (also played by Ann Blyth) who looks just like Helen, and Peter and Martha instantly fall in love. This film begins in black and white, and then switches to color when Peter awakens in the 18th century.
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I'm All Right, Jack 1959  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, Raymond Huntley, Liz Fraser, Marne Maitland, Kenneth Griffith, Fred Griffiths
This film provides great satire on the world of labor/management relations. Set in 1950s England, Oxford educated Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) takes a job as a laborer at his uncle's (Dennis Price) munitions factory. His incompetence is noticed by his fellow workers, but he gets sympathy from union official Fred Kate (Peter Sellers). Then, Stanley really messes up and finds that he has been set up by his uncle and is now in the middle of a scheme by his uncle to control his workers.
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Lady Godiva Rides Again 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Pauline Stroud, Gladys Henson, Bernadette O'Farrell, George Cole, Diana Dors, Eddie Byrne, Kay Kendall, Renee Houston, Joan Collins, Sid James, Tommy Duggan, Dana Wynter
Waitress Marjorie Clark (Pauline Stroud) enters a national beauty contest and wins money and a movie contract in London. But, Marjorie has no acting talents and ends up performing nude on the stage–until her boyfriend Larry (John McCallum) makes her promise to leave the show business world and settle down in the domestic world with him.
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The Millionairess 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond, Alfie Bass, Miriam Karlin, Noel Purcell, Graham Stark
This film, based on George Bernard Shaw's play, is about the dilemma of wealthy Epifania (Sophia Loren) who meets Doctor Kabir (Peter Sellers), a man whose love she cannot buy.
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Murder Most Foul 1964 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
aka: Agatha Christie's Murder Most Foul
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank, Megs Jenkins, Dennis Price, Ralph Michael, James Bolam, Stringer Davis, Francesca Annis, Pauline Jameson, Maurice Good
While serving on a jury, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) suspects that the accused is innocent and forces a mistrial. Then, she sets out to uncover the truth and identify the real killer.
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The Naked Truth 1957 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Your Past Is Showing
Director: Mario Zampi
Cast: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Miles Malleson, Joan Sims, Kenneth Griffith, Moultrie Kelsall, Wally Patch, Georgina Cookson, Bill Edwards, David Lodge, John Stuart
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) edits a tabloid newspaper through which he blackmails British celebrities to prevent him from printing stories about them. With their backs to the wall, several of the celebrities (Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, and Shirley Eaton) plot to kill Nigel. The celebrities attempt poisoning, bombing, and even a drowning–all of which are met with amusing complications.
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Oscar Wilde 1960 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Ralph Richardson, Dennis Price, Alexander Knox, Edward Chapman, Martin Benson, Robert Harris, Henry Oscar
The famed libel trial of Oscar Wilde (Robert Morley) is depicted in this film, which was released at the same time as "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" with Peter Finch in the title role.
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A Place of One's Own 1945  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Bernard Knowles
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price, Helen Haye, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Shepley, Dulcie Gray, Moore Marriott, Gus McNaughton
Annette (Margaret Lockwood) works for the Smedhursts (James Mason and Barbara Mullen) at their haunted home and becomes possessed by the spirit of a former owner who was murdered.
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Private's Progress 1956 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: John Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Terry-Thomas, Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones, William Hartnell, Ian Bannen, George Coulouris, Miles Malleson, Christopher Lee
Life in the British army is satirized in this delightful comedy–the British version of "No Time for Sergeants."
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Pulp 1972 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mike Hodges
Cast: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott, Nadia Cassini, Dennis Price, Al Lettieri, Leopoldo Trieste, Amerigo Tot, Robert Sacchi
Following the success of "Get Carter" the previous year, Mike Hodges and Michael Caine team up again, this time for laughs. Mickey King (Caine) is a fiction writer who is asked to ghost-write for the autobiography of retired actor–and, possibly, mobster–Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). After Preston is murdered, Mickey decides to solve the mystery as a method of finishing his story. Good acting, especially by Rooney.
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Rocket to the Moon 1967 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Comedy
aka: Blast Off
Those Fantastic Flying Fools
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe, Klaus Kinski, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries, Daliah Lavi, Dennis Price, Graham Stark
This sci-fi comedy is loosely based on a Jules Verne novel ("De la terre a la lune") and tells the story of Phineas T. Barnam and his friends who try to finance the first trip to the Moon. Many obstacles stand in the way.
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School for Scoundrels 1960 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Hamer
Cast: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott, Dennis Price, Peter Jones, Edward Chapman, John Le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Kynaston Reeves
Based on Stephen Potter's books, the plot for this film involves a training school–Lifeman College–that teaches how to succeed in life's games. Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is a loser who enrolls in the school and under the guidance of Professor Potter (Alastair Sim) learns the art of playing those games that will help him succeed.
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 Son of Dracula 1974  PG, 90 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Horror
aka: Young Dracula
Director: Freddie Francis
Cast: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Rosanna Lee, Freddie Jones, Dennis Price, Skip Martin, Suzanna Leigh, Peter Frampton, Keith Moon, Morris Bush
This rock/horror/comedy film was produced by Ringo Starr, but even several songs by Harry Nilsson were not enough to make this film worth watching.
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Ten Little Indians 1965 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
Director: George Pollock
Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Fabian, Shirley Eaton, Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daliah Lavi, Dennis Price, Marianne Hoppe, Mario Adorf
This version of Agatha Christie's novel at least keeps the author's ending. Guests are invited to an Austrian castle, and after the host announces that each guest has caused the death of an innocent person, the guests begin being killed–one-by-one.
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That Lady 1955 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Francoise Rosay, Dennis Price, Christopher Lee, Anthony Dawson, Robert Harris, Peter Illing, Jose Nieto
This historical drama is about Princess Eboli of Spain, Ana de Mendoza (Olivia de Havilland), who is jailed by King Philip (Paul Scofield) after her affair with a commoner (Gilbert Rowland) is discovered.
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Tower of Evil 1972 R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Beyond the Fog
Horror of Snape Island
Director: James P. O'Connolly
Cast: Bryant Haliday, Jill Haworth, Anna Palk, Jack Watson, Mark Edwards, Derek Fowlds, Dennis Price, John Hamill, Candace Glendenning, George Coulouris, Robin Askwith, Seretta Wilson
Archeologists search for an old Phoenician treasure on Snape Island where it was rumored that a woman had gone mad and killed her companion. One-by-one, team members are brutally murdered, and the trail leads to an old lighthouse. A substantial amount of gore and some nudity.
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Tunes of Glory 1960  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, Susannah York, John Fraser, Allan Cuthbertson, John Mackenzie, Gordon Jackson, Peter McEnery
Contrasting styles of two very different soldiers, Jack Sinclair (Alec Guinness) and Basil Barrow (John Mills), leads to opposite results from the men they lead.
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Twins of Evil 1971 R, 87 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: John Hough
Cast: Peter Cushing, Mary Collinson, Madeleine Collinson, Dennis Price, Kathleen Byron, Isobel Black, Damien Thomas, David Warbeck, Harvey Hall, Katya Wyeth, Alex Scotgt, Judy Matheson, Luan Peters
In this final film of the Hammer Films' trilogy based on Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla," the twin Playboy centerfolds Madeleine and Mary Collinson play twin sisters Frieda and Maria who are sent to stay with tough Uncle Gustof (Peter Cushing) who is a witch hunter. Unfortunately, he lives next to a vampire castle, and Frieda must have a look at the castle. Before you know it, she is out sucking blood and involved with satanic rites. The uncle comes to the rescue.
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Venus in Peltz 1969 R, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Venus in Furs
Director: Jesus Franco
Cast: James Darren, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm, Barbara McNair, Paul Muller, Aldo Lastretti, Margaret Lee, Dennis Price, Mirella Pamphili, Jesus Franco
Jesus Franco–the man with dozens of aliases and dozens of cheap, sex-oriented films–brings another one to the screen. This bizarre entry follows druggie jazz-musician Jimmy (James Darren) in Turkey as he finds the body of a woman who had been brutally murdered by a trio of sadistic men. Later, he thinks he sees her in a Brazilian nightclub, and the horror begins.
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Victim 1961 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Derren Nesbitt, John Barrie, John Cairney, Alan MacNaughtan
Homosexuality was illegal in England in the 1960s, and this film is one of the first to influence the "opening up" of the discussion on the subject. Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is a married lawyer who had demonstrated homosexual tendencies in the past and had a male lover. Being illegal, such people were often blackmailed, and Melville gets involved with the issue when he takes on the blackmailing in court.
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What a Carve Up! 1961 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Horror
aka: No Place Like Homicide
Director: Pat Jackson
Cast: Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Donald Pleasence, Dennis Price, Michael Gough, Valerie Taylor, Michael Gwynn, Esma Cannon, Philip O'Flynn, Timothy Bateson, Frederick Piper
Members of the Broughton family gather together in an eerie mansion for the reading of Uncle Gabriel's (Philip O'Flynn) will. Several of the family end up murdered, and it turns out that the murderer is Uncle Gabriel who faked his death to get even with the rest of his family.
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| 1. The Adventurers (1951)
aka: Fortune in Diamonds
aka: The Great Adventure
2. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
3. Curse of Simba (1965)
aka: Curse of the Voodoo
aka: Lion Man
4. Danger Within (1959)
aka: Breakout
5. Dracula Contra Frankenstein (1972)
aka: Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
aka: Dracula vs. Frankenstein
aka: Screaming Dead
6. The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
7. A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
8. Horror Hospital (1973)
aka: Computer Killers
9. The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
10. I'll Never Forget You (1951)
aka: The House in the Square
aka: Man of Two Worlds
11. I'm All Right, Jack (1959)
12. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
13. Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
14. The Millionairess (1960)
15. Murder Most Foul (1964)
aka: Agatha Christie's Murder Most Foul
16. The Naked Truth (1957)
aka: Your Past Is Showing
17. Oscar Wilde (1960)
18. A Place of One's Own (1945)
19. Private's Progress (1956)
20. Pulp (1972)
21. Rocket to the Moon (1967)
aka: Blast Off
aka: Those Fantastic Flying Fools
aka: Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
22. School for Scoundrels (1960)
23. Son of Dracula (1974)
aka: Young Dracula
24. Ten Little Indians (1965)
aka: And Then There Were None
aka: Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians
25. That Lady (1955)
26. Tower of Evil (1972)
aka: Beyond the Fog
aka: Horror of Snape Island
27. Tunes of Glory (1960)
28. Twins of Evil (1971)
29. Venus in Peltz (1969)
aka: Venus in Furs
30. Victim (1961)
31. What a Carve Up! (1961)
aka: No Place Like Homicide
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