Basil Dearden Movies

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of...

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of...

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are...

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he...

Merchant sailor Dan MacDonald has a lucrative sideline in smuggling black market goods ashore. While docked in London, MacDonald and his best friend,...

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of...

William Blood is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He's soon fired and offered a job by the...

In early 1960s London, barrister Melville Farr is on the path to success. With his practice winning cases and a loving marriage to his wife, Laura,...

A trio of globetrotting confidence tricksters hatch an elaborate scheme to swindle an African representative by selling him crates of scrap metal...

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

After a Middle Eastern oil-rich nation pulls out of contract negotiations with Great Britain, British Colonel Drexel enlists an American...

Utilising a semi-documentary approach to explore the lives of British probation officers and their charges in London, Henry Allardyce Phipps is a...

Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he...

Jean and Matt Spenser are trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue, they receive a telegram informing them Matt's long-lost uncle has died and left...

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...