Most Popular Leo McKern Trailers
Total trailers found: 65
07 February 1958
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay.
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.
16 December 1977
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize.
21 September 1956
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village.
17 July 1959
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid.
05 July 1980
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island.
16 February 1968
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
25 June 1976
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife.
20 October 1981
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old.
20 February 1985
When Miss Jane Marple arrives at palatial Stonygates, one thing is certain. Before there's time to lather a warm scone with marmalade and place a tea cozy, murder most foul is bound to occur.
03 April 1983
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
01 November 1961
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right.
28 May 1979
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
30 July 1963
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis.
26 May 1965
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
01 January 1984
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
27 March 1985
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day.
10 September 1951
Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.
09 March 1964
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000.
09 June 1978
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school.
22 August 1968
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder.
04 April 1961
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault.
28 December 1966
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
10 September 1993
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy.
12 January 1960
An Englishman and a cabby try to save an heiress from murder in Spain.
28 April 1959
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
28 August 1981
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles.
10 January 1964
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
31 October 1959
A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
13 December 1966
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
30 September 1958
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
15 March 1964
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off.
30 December 1980
A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.
30 October 1968
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
01 January 1985
Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a Communist Mayor.
19 March 1970
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
01 June 1960
A bumbling gang of thieves crash a jazz party.
06 May 1973
Ahead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his brother.
26 November 1994
Based upon the true story that inpired the Christmas carol about a young king's care for his people.
21 December 1955
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter.
17 December 1978
The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
14 December 1975
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes.
21 March 1957
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford.
31 July 1982
Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.
17 August 1978
The story of the genocide of the Tasmanian aborigine population by British settlers. Specifically Truganini, the last living full-blood aborigine.
16 December 1975
An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.
24 May 1962
At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
19 June 1987
Travelling North tells the story of Frank, a crotchety old man with an unending zest and passion for life and Frances his much younger companion travelling to Queensland to enjoy their retirement and each other.
15 May 1988
Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself.
04 October 1973
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship.
05 September 1964
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
14 November 1968
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope.
29 April 1964
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
29 July 1965
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off).
01 January 1974
A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.
29 March 1992
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
27 November 1968
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.
07 May 1961
In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.
01 January 1967
A BAFTA award nominated documentary about Danilo Dolci's 1967 march across Sicily as an expression of his fight against poverty, corruption and violence, together with transcripts of an interview with Dolci.
17 March 1999
The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.