Basil Dearden Movies

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble...

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

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

A day following workers at an airport

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis),...

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness...

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.

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British...

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers...

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.