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1	Khartoum (1966) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massacres a British-led force of 8,000 and marches on the strategic city of Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The British government of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.19!
2	The Assassination Bureau (1969) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) tries to get the goods on shady businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Ivan is in charge of a wide-reaching organization which, for a price, assassinates those who "need killing." As a ... see all copies from $11.15! new only from $11.15!
3	The Captive Heart (1947) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Basil Radford, Rachel Thomas The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed the identity of a deceased British officer to avoid being executed by the Nazis. When captured and placed in the camp, the British prisoners suspect the still-incognito Redgrave of being a spy. Only his conspicuous courage ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $14.99!
4	The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. They also inherit the theater's ancient, doddering ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
5	Victim (1962) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Peter McEnery In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a blackmailing scheme. What set this one apart is the fact ... see all copies from $6.94! new only from $15.11!
6	Who Done It? (1956) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, George Margo Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual double entendres in favor of pure-and-simple slapstick, Hill plays a would-be private eye named Hugo. Before he quite knows what's happening, Hugo is up to his neck in espionage intrigue. Belinda Lee plays Hugo's dewey-eyed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.35!
7	The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie, Kevork Malikyan Basil Dearden's final film is a psychological thriller, adapted from an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents television series. Roger Moore stars as wealthy business executive Harold Pelham, who becomes involved in a terrible car accident. While recovering from his injuries, his alter ego is unleashed and begins to live Pelham's life where he ... see all copies from $2.72! new only from $13.99!
8	Dead of Night (1945) more movies like this directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer featuring Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Roland Culver Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of supernatural terror from four different directors, yet it ultimately feels like a unified whole. The framing device is simple but unsettling, as a group of strangers find themselves inexplicably gathered at an isolated country estate, ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $14.99!
9	Mission: Monte Carlo (1976) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Roy Ward Baker Mission: Monte Carlo is a "movie" comprised of two episodes from the 1971 British/US TV series The Persuaders - which accounts for the presence of Basil Dearden, who died that year. The only element that the two hour-long episodes truly have in common is their setting: Southern France's Cote D'Azur. The discovery of an exotic dancer's corpse leads ... see all copies from $3.99!
10	All Night Long (1961) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Patrick McGoohan, Marti Stevens, Betsy Blair The British All Night Long is Othello to a jazz beat. Paul Harris is the Othello counterpart, a bandleader happily married to "Desdemona" Marti Stevens. Patrick McGoohan plays the film's funky Iago character, who covets Harris' job. McGoohan hopes to unnerve Harris by spreading rumors that Stevens has been unfaithful. Like the 1956 Joe MacBeth, ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $11.95!
11	The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay featuring Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the Nazis who are trying to prevent the signing of an important trade agreement between South American countries and England. When the professor learns that a Nazi agent has breached security and is posing as the economics expert ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
12	The Goose Steps Out (1942) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay Future action-film expert Basil Dearden cut his directorial teeth on The Goose Steps Out, a wartime espionage comedy. The star (and co-director) is Will Hay, a major British comedian of the era whose stock in trade was playing pompous, inefficient schoolmasters. This time Hay and his confederates cross the path of a gang of Nazi spies, operating ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
13	Woman of Straw (1964) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Johnny Sekka, Laurence Hardy In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry young man enraged that his rich, dying uncle doesn't plan to include him in his will. Instead, Charles Richmond (Ralph Richardson) plans to give his fortune to charity. Anthony recruits a young nurse, Maria (Gina Lollobrigida), ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
14	Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Michael Relph featuring Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
15	My Learned Friend (1943) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay featuring Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Charles Victor, G.H. Mulcaster Will Hay, he of the pince-nez, outraged sniff, and overall demeanor of dignified incompetence, stars in (and codirects) another of his popular British comedies. In My Learned Friend, Hay is a seedy lawyer, one of several people targeted for death by a vengeful escaped convict. As the criminal's victims pile up, Hay can't help but feel a bit ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
16	The Bells Go Down (1943) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Tommy Trinder, James Mason, Mervyn Johns, Phillip Friend, Philippa Hiatt, Finlay Currie, William Hartnell The Bells Go Down is a dramatization of London firefighting efforts during the 1940 Blitz. In structure, the film is very much like any other smoke-eating melodrama, with perhaps more emphasis on comedy than usual. The omnipresence of the Luftwaffe gives the film an urgency that others in its genre tend to lack. Making it all the more remarkable ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
17	Train of Events (1949) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Sidney Cole featuring Jack Warner, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Peter Finch, Joan Dowling, John Gregson The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the wreck. Lonely orphan girl Joan Dowling is killed while ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!

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