Basil Dearden — Director (33)
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Who Done It? (1956)
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Basil Dearden actor: Benny Hill / Belinda Lee …
other title: Un détective très privé / 谁闯的祸
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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The Bells Go Down (1943)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 汤米·特林德 / James Mason …
other title: 铃声渐悄
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 under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: Steward Granger / 琼·格林伍德 …
other title: 深宫残梦 / 사라밴드 …
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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My Learned Friend (1943)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 / 威尔·海伊 actor: 威尔·海伊 / Claude Hulbert …
other title: 杀机四伏
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end. This black comedy suggests that, had he lived, Will Hay might have moved on to the darker corners of Ealing comedies such as 'The Ladykillers'.
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Cage of Gold (1952)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 简·西蒙斯 / 大卫·法拉尔 …
other title: 金笼彩凤
A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries. But then her "dead" husband comes back and tries to extort money from her.
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The Gentle Gunman (1952)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: Dirk Bogarde / John Mills
other title: 绅士枪匪 / Die Bombe im U-Bahn-Schacht …
IRA member Terry modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows and the local group have to decide what to do about him and about their imprisoned colleagues being shipped to Belfast.
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Frieda (1947)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 大卫·法拉尔 / 格莱妮丝·约翰斯 …
other title: 弗里达
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 helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.
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The Blue Lamp (1950)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 杰克·华纳 Jack Warner / 吉米·汉利 Jimmy Hanley …
other title: 寒夜青灯 / Die blaue Lampe …
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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The Assassination Bureau (1969)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 奥列佛·里德 / 黛安娜·里格 …
other title: 国际暗杀局 / 世界殺人公社 …
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
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The Captive Heart (1946)
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Basil Dearden actor: Michael Redgrave
other title: 深闺梦里人 / 被俘获的心 …
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.