Reginald Beckwith

Reginald Beckwith

Born: November 2, 1908
Died: June 26, 1965
in York, England, UK

Movies for Reginald Beckwith...

Where the Spies Are
Title: Where the Spies Are
Character: Mr. Kahn
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
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Thunderball
Title: Thunderball
Character: Kenniston
Released: December 11, 1965
Type: Movie
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
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The Secret of My Success
Title: The Secret of My Success
Character: Gen. Ferdinand Velez
Released: September 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Women (Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens) and his mother help an English constable (James Booth) rise to ruler of a banana republic.
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How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
Title: How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs.
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Gonks Go Beat
Title: Gonks Go Beat
Character: Professor
Released: May 24, 1965
Type: Movie
A swiftly assembled musical fantasy movie made to capitalise on the mid-Sixties, British craze for gonks (a sort of soft, furry toy). Today it is of more interest for featuring music by such artists as Lulu, The Nashville Teens, and The Graham Bond Organisation.
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Mister Moses
Title: Mister Moses
Character: Parkhurst
Released: May 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
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The Big Job
Title: The Big Job
Character: Register Office Official
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Title: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Title: The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Character: Reporter
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Receptionist
Released: June 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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Never Put It in Writing
Title: Never Put It in Writing
Character: Lombardi
Released: April 27, 1964
Type: Movie
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Kiss Me Kate
Title: Kiss Me Kate
Character: Cast Member
Released: April 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Abridged version of the classic Cole Porter musical.
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Doctor in Distress
Title: Doctor in Distress
Character: Meyer
Released: July 30, 1963
Type: Movie
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Title: Lancelot and Guinevere
Character: Sir Dagonet
Released: June 2, 1963
Type: Movie
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
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Just for Fun
Title: Just for Fun
Character: Opposition Leader
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Enderby
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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The Password Is Courage
Title: The Password Is Courage
Character: Unterofficer
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.
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Night of the Eagle
Title: Night of the Eagle
Character: Harold Gunnison
Released: April 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Landlord
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
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Title: Sir Francis Drake
Character: Sir Henry Rainsford
Released: November 12, 1961
Type: TV
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Title: The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Character: Harry
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
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Dentist on the Job
Title: Dentist on the Job
Character: Mr. Duff
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
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Double Bunk
Title: Double Bunk
Character: Alfred Harper
Released: May 6, 1961
Type: Movie
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
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Five Golden Hours
Title: Five Golden Hours
Character: Brother Geronimo
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
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The Night We Got the Bird
Title: The Night We Got the Bird
Character: Chippendale Charlie
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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There Was a Crooked Man
Title: There Was a Crooked Man
Character: Station Master
Released: August 31, 1960
Type: Movie
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.
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Dentist in the Chair
Title: Dentist in the Chair
Character: Mr Watling
Released: August 8, 1960
Type: Movie
The misfortunes that befall three dental students when they become unwitting accessories to a burglary.
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Doctor in Love
Title: Doctor in Love
Character: Wildewinde
Released: July 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
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Bottoms Up!
Title: Bottoms Up!
Character: Bishop Wendover
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
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Expresso Bongo
Title: Expresso Bongo
Character: Rev. Tobias Craven
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
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Upstairs and Downstairs
Title: Upstairs and Downstairs
Character: Parson
Released: November 2, 1959
Type: Movie
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
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The Ugly Duckling
Title: The Ugly Duckling
Character: Reginald
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
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The 39 Steps
Title: The 39 Steps
Character: Lumdsen
Released: March 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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Friends and Neighbours
Title: Friends and Neighbours
Character: Wilf Holmes
Released: January 11, 1959
Type: Movie
During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
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The Captain's Table
Title: The Captain's Table
Character: Burtweed
Released: January 6, 1959
Type: Movie
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
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Desert Mice
Title: Desert Mice
Character: Fred
Released: January 5, 1959
Type: Movie
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to camp.
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The Horse's Mouth
Title: The Horse's Mouth
Character: Capt. Jones
Released: November 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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Rockets Galore
Title: Rockets Galore
Character: Mumford
Released: October 19, 1958
Type: Movie
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 would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
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Next to No Time
Title: Next to No Time
Character: Warren
Released: August 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
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Law and Disorder
Title: Law and Disorder
Character: Vickery
Released: June 9, 1958
Type: Movie
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
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Up the Creek
Title: Up the Creek
Character: Publican
Released: May 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
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Night of the Demon
Title: Night of the Demon
Character: Mr. Meek
Released: November 9, 1957
Type: Movie
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
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Lucky Jim
Title: Lucky Jim
Character: University Porter
Released: September 17, 1957
Type: Movie
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
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Light Fingers
Title: Light Fingers
Character: Gates
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
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These Dangerous Years
Title: These Dangerous Years
Character: Hairdresser
Released: July 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
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Carry on Admiral
Title: Carry on Admiral
Character: Receptionist
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, including torpedoing the First Lord of The Admiralty. The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they decide to trade places for a while. One of the boozers is a public relations man who knows nothing about sailing, while the other is a captain for the Royal Navy. Comic mayhem ensues as the hapless "captain" tries to run his ship and follow orders.
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A Touch of the Sun
Title: A Touch of the Sun
Character: Herbert Hardcastle
Released: October 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
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It's a Wonderful World
Title: It's a Wonderful World
Character: Professional Manager
Released: August 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
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Title: Hancock's Half Hour
Released: July 6, 1956
Type: TV
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
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Charley Moon
Title: Charley Moon
Character: Vicar
Released: May 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
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Jumping for Joy
Title: Jumping for Joy
Character: Smithers
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
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The March Hare
Title: The March Hare
Character: J. Blacker
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
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They Can't Hang Me
Title: They Can't Hang Me
Character: Harold
Released: October 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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Title: The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: The Tax Collector
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: TV
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
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The Lyons in Paris
Title: The Lyons in Paris
Character: Captain le Grand
Released: February 11, 1955
Type: Movie
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
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Break in the Circle
Title: Break in the Circle
Character: Dusty
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
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A Yank in Ermine
Title: A Yank in Ermine
Character: Kimp
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship. Unsure if he is prepared to make the sacrifice he takes a trip with his two best friends to try our his new title, but will he be able to cope with the British aristocracy?
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Aunt Clara
Title: Aunt Clara
Character: Alfie Pearce
Released: November 22, 1954
Type: Movie
A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: Friar Tuck
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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Lease of Life
Title: Lease of Life
Character: Journalist Foley
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Fast and Loose
Title: Fast and Loose
Character: Rev. Tripp-Johnson
Released: February 12, 1954
Type: Movie
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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The Million Pound Note
Title: The Million Pound Note
Character: Rock
Released: January 7, 1954
Type: Movie
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
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Don't Blame the Stork
Title: Don't Blame the Stork
Character: Jonathan
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
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The Runaway Bus
Title: The Runaway Bus
Character: Telephone Man
Released: September 28, 1953
Type: Movie
When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
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Genevieve
Title: Genevieve
Character: J. C. Callahan
Released: May 28, 1953
Type: Movie
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt
Title: The Titfield Thunderbolt
Character: Coggett
Released: March 4, 1953
Type: Movie
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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Brandy for the Parson
Title: Brandy for the Parson
Character: Scout Master
Released: May 2, 1952
Type: Movie
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
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Penny Princess
Title: Penny Princess
Character: Minister of Finance - Blacksmith
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Manson
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
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Another Man's Poison
Title: Another Man's Poison
Character: Mr. Bigley
Released: November 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.
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Mr. Drake's Duck
Title: Mr. Drake's Duck
Character: Mr. Boothby
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.
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You're Only Young Twice
Title: You're Only Young Twice
Character: BBC Commentator
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal as his new secretary so she jumps headlong into the role
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Circle of Danger
Title: Circle of Danger
Character: Oliver
Released: April 17, 1951
Type: Movie
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
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The Body Said No!
Title: The Body Said No!
Released: April 30, 1950
Type: Movie
A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical she warns Rennie, but things are not what they seem.
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Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Title: Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Character: Mr. Jenkins
Released: November 29, 1949
Type: Movie
An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Lt. H. R. Bowers RIM
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself
Title: In Which We Live: Being the Story of a Suit Told by Itself
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Government information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.
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Freedom Radio
Title: Freedom Radio
Character: Emil Fenner
Released: February 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.