State Secret
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
Sidney Gilliat
Casts & Crew
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Glynis Johns
Jack Hawkins
Herbert Lom
Walter Rilla
Karel Stepanek
Hans Olaf Moser
Guido Lorraine
Robert Ayres
Howard Douglas
Martin Boddey
Russell Waters
Arthur Howard
Carl Jaffe
Gerard Heinz
Leonard Sachs
Leslie Linder
Leo Bieber
Nelly Arno
Paul Demel
Danny Green
Anton Diffring
Olga Lowe
Therese Van Kye
Peter Illing
Arthur Reynolds
Richard Molinas
Eric Pohlmann
Louis Wiechert
Gerik Schjelderup
Henrik Jacobsen
Robert Cawdron
Alexis Chesnakov
Marianne Deeming
Arsene Kirilloff
Richard Marner
Pat Neal
Arthur Skinner
Gordon Tanner
Alessandro Tasca
Joe Wadham
Ian Wallace
Also Directed by Sidney Gilliat
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fifteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
An insurance man (Jack Hawkins) discovers his ex-girlfriend (Arlene Dahl) and her husband's (Dennis Price) art-forgery/arson scam.
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.