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The Court Jester

The Court Jester (1956) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
featuring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker

Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) intends to remove Roderick from the palace and bring ...

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Indiscreet

Indiscreet (1958) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff

Adapted by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir, Indiscreet stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard. While Grant is visiting London, Bergman's sister Phyllis Calvert and brother-in-law Cecil Parker introduce Grant to Bergman. Because he feels he has no time for marriage, Grant pretends to be ...

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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers (1955) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Danny Green

Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter ...

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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes (1938) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker

The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca. The film concerns the young Iris Henderson ...

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The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit (1951) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger

Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Gough) is showing competitor Alan Bimley (Cecil Parker) ...

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) more movies like this

directed by Michael Anderson
featuring Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris

Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going in this drama about the wreck of the Mary Deare. John Sands (Charleton Heston) is the captain of a salvage ship that is almost rammed by the apparently abandoned Mary Deare. Sands boards the ship in search of plunder but as ...

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Heavens Above!

Heavens Above! (1963) more movies like this

directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
featuring Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also follows his conscience whenever possible, resulting ...

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A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities (1958) more movies like this

directed by Ralph Thomas
featuring Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Marie Versini, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler

Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke, the writer of such fifties British comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob and Passport to Pimlico, dips his pen into a more stately inkwell in this stilted adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dirk Bogarde takes the lead role of worn-down, drunken lawyer Sydney Carton, who finally wakes up from ...

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Operation Snafu

Operation Snafu (1961) more movies like this

directed by Cyril Frankel
featuring Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King

Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more the duo screws up, the more they succeed in pulling ...

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The Weaker Sex (1948) more movies like this

directed by Roy Ward Baker
featuring Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris

In this ironically titled British WW II drama, a widowed housewife provides housing for two navy men while her daughters serve as Wrens and her son serves in the military. The woman and one of the daughters end up falling for the sailors and marrying them. Following D-Day and the end of the war, the son returns home. All must now deal with the ...

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Under Your Hat (1940) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Elvey
featuring Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Austin Trevor, Leonora Corbett, Cecil Parker

In this lively spy caper, the male half of a married song-and-dance duo moonlights as a government spy. The trouble begins when he is assigned to monitor a sexy foreign spy, something he must keep from his wife, who soon gets jealous when she sees the two constantly together. To monitor her own husband, the wife gets herself hired as a maid to the ...

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Sons of the Sea (1939) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Elvey
featuring Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Simon Lack, Cecil Parker

Originally released in England by British Consolidated, Sons of the Sea was the last film to be distributed in America by Grand National Pictures. Generally cast in villainous roles, Leslie Banks plays the film's true-blue hero Captain Hyde. Alas, Hyde's young son Philip (Simon Lack), though a graduate of the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, does ...

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The Navy Lark (1959) more movies like this

directed by Gordon Parry
featuring Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Elvi Hale, Nicholas Phipps

Director Gordon Parry's last two films were the 1959 Friends and Neighbors and this so-so, slapstick comedy about a zany naval base on an island just off the southern coast of Britain. Not having a whole lot to do, the klutzy commander (Cecil Parker), a womanizing second officer (Leslie Phillips) and just about everyone else are making money by ...

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The Magnificent Two

The Magnificent Two (1967) more movies like this

directed by Cliff Owen
featuring Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Margit Saad, Cecil Parker

British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise make the movie from the small screen to the silver screen with this zany tale of two traveling salesmen swept up in a South American revolution. Eric and Ernie are eager to test their salesmen skills in a new setting, but upon arriving in South America it quickly becomes apparent that the continent ...

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Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup (1937) more movies like this

directed by Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville
featuring Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans

Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison's filmographies. Set in an old-fashioned Scottish town, Storm in a Teacup features Rex Harrison as an English newpaper reporter who has traveled north in order to take a job. Once there, he meets ...

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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1961) more movies like this

directed by Frank Launder
featuring Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Irene Handl, Eric Barker

One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes terribles have just burnt down the school and shock the world by getting acquitted when hauled into ...

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Tony Draws a Horse (1951) more movies like this

directed by John Paddy, John Paddy Carstairs
featuring Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond, Barbara Murray, Mervyn Johns

This lightweight British satire on Freudianism stars Cecil Parker as a prominent doctor and Anne Crawford as his psychiatrist wife. Parker and Crawford are taken aback when their innocent young son Anthony Lang draws a picture of a horse, with all necessary reproductive equipment lovingly detailed. While Parker is all for paddling his precocious ...

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Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn (1949) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Sr., Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker

Returning to his old Elstree Studios headquarters in England, Alfred Hitchcock did his best with Hume Cronyn's adaptation of the James Bridie novel Under Capricorn. Costume drama was never Hitchcock's forte, as proven by his disappointing Jamaica Inn (1939), but Capricorn does have its moments. Set in Australia in the early 19th century, the film ...

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The Amorous Mr. Prawn (1962) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Kimmins
featuring Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty

Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting salmon fishermen, a circumstance that displeases the ...

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The Admirable Crichton (1957) more movies like this

directed by Lewis Gilbert
featuring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt

Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton. In this Technicolor adaptation of James M. Barrie's oft-filmed stage play, Kenneth More stars as Crichton, the super-efficient butler for a family of haughty British aristocrats. Though More is true master of the household, he keeps his place, honoring the tightly ...

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