Basil Dearden Movies

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

The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.

Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.

Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous,...

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

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

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

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...

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

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

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...

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

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 professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...

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...

A day following workers at an airport

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...