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Bryan Forbes (22 July 1926 – 8 May 2013) was an English film director, screenwriter, film producer, actor and novelist.
Total trailers found: 71
10 September 1959
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy.
28 May 1958
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships.
15 April 1960
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project.
10 March 1960
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
19 June 1964
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy.
17 September 1970
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.
26 August 1954
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight.
17 February 1959
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
09 October 1952
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
19 June 1966
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
31 October 1980
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy).
16 October 1950
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
27 October 1965
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison.
16 March 1954
An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances.
25 July 1961
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
01 June 1985
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands.
21 July 1956
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
12 October 1969
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others.
11 September 1968
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
12 April 1953
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800.
21 October 1958
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
17 February 1953
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 showing.
01 November 1964
This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
26 September 1980
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him.
12 February 1975
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
09 April 1956
During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin.
27 April 1961
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
11 January 1963
A beautiful blonde joins a small group of men running an oil station in the Sahara Desert and starts the emotions soaring.
25 April 1949
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing.
04 December 1973
A documentary detailing the production of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" LP featuring footage from the recording session in France, interviews, and concert footage.
17 December 1992
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
21 January 1971
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home.
20 August 1989
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered.
18 July 1967
Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress.
07 November 2006
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the famous stage actor, 'Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree' , Reed was brilliant with actors, especially child actors, making him the perfect person to bring Oliver! to the screen.
21 February 1983
Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress.
23 September 1964
Medical student Philip falls in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair.
10 September 1956
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him.
30 December 1969
In his 70th year, Alfred Hitchcock came to the National Film Theatre in London to talk to fellow director Bryan Forbes and to answer questions from an audience of film enthusiasts.
31 October 1960
William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need.
23 December 1980
A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family.
23 June 1964
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
05 June 1970
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
28 May 1995
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
26 December 1956
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles.
07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
06 November 1951
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes.
01 January 1956
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
01 August 2000
A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors.
24 August 2003
Two-part Arena special celebrating the life and distinguished career of one of Britain's best-loved public figures.
01 July 1953
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder.
24 May 1957
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space.
01 January 2001
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
23 December 1984
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
19 July 1978
Sarah Brown is sent to England after her parents die in a car crash. There, she lives with her aunt Velvet who introduces Sarah to the world of equestrian competition and gives her the last foal of her own prize horse, The Pie.
20 November 1962
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion.
25 March 1976
Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what.
01 January 1954
A maritime farce set in the South Seas. A strong supporting cast includes Brian Rix, Anthony Newley & Harry Fowler.
23 October 1956
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
