
Desmond Davis
Desmond Davis (1926-2021) was a British film and television director.
- Title: Desmond Davis
- Popularity: 0.6508
- Known For: Directing
- Birthday: 1926-05-24
- Place of Birth: London, England
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Desmond Davis (1926-2021) was a British film and television director.
6.9 1981 HD
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...
6.6 1964 HD
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
4.92 1984 HD
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed...
6.2 1967 HD
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
5.6 1984 HD
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...
6.719 1983 HD
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
4 1952 HD
Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.
6.1 1966 HD
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return...
4 1988 HD
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous...
1 1981 HD
One of Shaw's "pleasant plays", The Man of Destiny is a one-act lighthearted comedy of egos and social hypocrisy. Set in 1796 in northern Italy, it...
6 1979 HD
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is...
6.8 1965 HD
Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...
5.8 1959 HD
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which...
6 1994 HD
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years...
6.5 1986 HD
Beautiful wealthy American businesswoman meets eccentric Irishman on an Italian train, who sets out to woo her. What ensues is something neither...
1 1977 HD
For 51 years, the Comtesse has bought a new hat to celebrate her wedding anniyear, she invites her granddaughter Sylvie to the ceremony.
1 1977 HD
"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
1 1984 HD
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in...
1 1969 HD
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for...
1 1969 HD
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for...
6.1 1966 HD
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return...
3.8 1952 HD
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...
6.8 1965 HD
Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...
6.8 1965 HD
Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew Tom comes to spend the summer holidays with his...
1 1979 HD
British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
5.2 1944 HD
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a...
5.9 1944 HD
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady...
6 1949 HD
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife,...
6.4 1950 HD
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The...
6.8 1950 HD
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
5.2 1950 HD
A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
7.354 1952 HD
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed...
6.2 1952 HD
Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
5.2 1952 HD
When police inspector Gerald Blake wants to infiltrate a London stolen-goods gang, he does a thorough job of it. First, he robs a jewelry store, gets...
7.2 1952 HD
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing...
5.9 1952 HD
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to...
6 1953 HD
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
6.5 1953 HD
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...
5.5 1953 HD
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...
4 1953 HD
Two brothers work in their invalid father's repair garage. Johnny is the quiet, reliable one while Ted is younger and wilder. The brothers feud over...
6 1953 HD
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes)...
5.5 1953 HD
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend.
6.2 1953 HD
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
4.9 1953 HD
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister,...
6.4 1953 HD
A U.S. sailor (Scott Brady) docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows.
5.6 1955 HD
On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...
6 1954 HD
Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
9 1955 HD
A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance...
5 1955 HD
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose...
4.5 1955 HD
Special investigator Duke Martin is in London to investigate the authenticity of a rare postage stamp called the Barbados Overplate. Someone is...
5.2 1955 HD
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...
5.2 1955 HD
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's...
5.2 1956 HD
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to...
5.8 1956 HD
After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put...
5.5 1956 HD
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
8 1957 HD
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
4.6 1957 HD
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a...
1 1957 HD
A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence...
1 1957 HD
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
5.2 1957 HD
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
6.5 1957 HD
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
6 1957 HD
A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
4.9 1957 HD
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
4.7 1958 HD
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been...
4.8 1958 HD
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland...
7.4 1958 HD
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
1 1958 HD
Tempers and sexual jealousies flare when five men and a woman share a mountain cabin while mining for gold.
7.2 1959 HD
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his...
6.2 1960 HD
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
7 1961 HD
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and...
7.062 1961 HD
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on...
5.927 1963 HD
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
6.479 1962 HD
An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique...
7.207 1962 HD
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its...
6 1956 HD
A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in...
1 1974 HD
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper...
7 1988 HD
A U.S. soldier sees the Berlin Wall go up in 1961 and helps a group of East Germans escape to the West.
1 1982 HD
Is Richard the pub bore, or is he someone very intriguing? Arthur is a man of habit - four pints a night and home by 7.0, but tonight it's past 11.0...
6.2 1953 HD
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...
6.905 1970 HD
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...
6.333 1970 HD
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
6 1970 HD
The Chief is a British television crime drama series that aired on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995, starring Michael Cochrane, Tim...
5.2 1970 HD
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...
6.7 1970 HD
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had...
5.5 1970 HD
Follyfoot is a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent...
6 1970 HD
An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories written by novelist Thomas Hardy.
8.5 1970 HD
The trials and tribulations of a daring group of young pilots in the Royal Flying Corps as they prepare for battle in World War I. The lead character...
6.5 1970 HD
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...
1 1970 HD
A half-hour anthology series.
1 1970 HD
A half-hour anthology series.