Search results for "Richard Wattis"
Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle

Second Fiddle
IMDb: 5.4
78

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Time of His Life

The Time of His Life

The Time of His Life
IMDb: 5.8
74

Mr Pastry’s social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives…

Genre: Comedy
Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre
IMDb: 6.2
95

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…

Made in Heaven

Made in Heaven

Made in Heaven
IMDb: 5.4
90

Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery

The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery

The Great St. Trinian’s Train Robbery
IMDb: 6
93

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
The Ballad of Tam Lin

The Ballad of Tam Lin

The Ballad of Tam Lin
IMDb: 6
106

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl,…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Lease of Life

Lease of Life

Lease of Life
IMDb: 6.9
94

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Genre: Drama
Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura
IMDb: 6.4
91

Bickering married performers agree to star in a “Mr. and Mrs.” TV show. Director Muriel Box’s 1956 British comedy also stars Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham and Richard Wattis.

Genre: Comedy
An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy

An Alligator Named Daisy
IMDb: 5.3
85

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Song of Paris

Song of Paris

Song of Paris
IMDb: 6
83

An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.

Genre: Comedy
Wonderwall

Wonderwall

Wonderwall
IMDb: 5.6
92

The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated of her. He drills holes in her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Take Me High

Take Me High

Take Me High
IMDb: 4.8
87

Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
IMDb: 7.2
158

All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to…

Genre: Drama, War
The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
IMDb: 7
94

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an “escape-proof” German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Genre: Drama, War
The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman

The Abominable Snowman
IMDb: 6.4
85

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

Genre: Adventure, Horror
Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice

Hobson’s Choice
IMDb: 7.7
107

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Appointment in London

Appointment in London

Appointment in London
IMDb: 6.5
96

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is…

Genre: Drama, War
High Flight

High Flight

High Flight
IMDb: 5.6
89

The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

Genre: Drama, War
The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life
IMDb: 7.3
81

Nutbourne 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…

Genre: Comedy
Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill
IMDb: 6.9
87

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’

Genre: Comedy
The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl
IMDb: 6.5
115

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Confessions of a Window Cleaner
IMDb: 4.5
90

Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is,…

Genre: Comedy
Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying

Carry On Spying
IMDb: 6.2
87

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely…

Genre: Comedy
A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun
IMDb: 5.7
80

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

Genre: Comedy
The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table
IMDb: 5.9
90

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship,…

Genre: Comedy
Play It Cool

Play It Cool

Play It Cool
IMDb: 5.8
82

A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with…

Genre: Drama, Music
Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell
IMDb: 6.5
93

Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Small Town Story

Small Town Story

Small Town Story
IMDb: 6.5
69

Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club,…

Genre: Drama
The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest
IMDb: 7.5
95

Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend — whom he knows as “Ernest” — is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job
IMDb: 5.3
88

Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise “Dreem”, a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn…

Genre: Comedy
Your Money or Your Wife

Your Money or Your Wife

Your Money or Your Wife
IMDb: 4.7
91

A domestic comedy about a couple who take in boarders to pay the rent on their large house.

Genre: Comedy
Libel

Libel

Libel
IMDb: 7.1
100

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
IMDb: 5.5
84

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…

Genre: Comedy, Crime