Maurice Denham
Actor
Films to Rent
- Blanche Fury (1948)
- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough…
- Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
- My Brother's Keeper (1948)
- Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson…
- Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
- Purple Plain, The (1954)
- Dir. Robert Parrish
Feat. Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee…
- Strong psychological drama, shot in lush Technicolor, with Peck as a shell–shocked pilot stuck with wounded comrades behind enemy lines in the…
- Simon & Laura (Simon and Laura) (1955)
- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurice Denham…
- Prescient satire with a bickering couple, on the brink of splitting up are given the opportunity to revitalise their acting careers by starring in a…
- 23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker…
- Genuine nail–biter with Van Johnson as a blind writer who has the misfortune to overhear a kidnapping plot, enlisting his two friends he sets…
- Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon) (1957)
- Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis…
- Classy occult thriller survives its big reputation through an intelligent script and controlled sense of menace. Dana Andrews' cynical professor…
- Sink the Bismarck (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Laurence Naismith…
- A no–nonsense depiction of the WW2 hunt by the British navy to destroy the German super–warship Bismarck.
Conveying both the allied…
- Long Duel, The (1967)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews…
- MIddling adventure yarn set in India under the British Raj. Idealistic policeman Trevor Howard is given orders to capture a rebellious Sultan dead or…
- Some Girls Do (1969)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers…
- Return outing for Richard Johnson's 'Bulldog Drummond' pits the Bond–wannabe against a cabal of mini–skirted fembots and his…
- Countess Dracula (1971)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
Feat. Ingrid Pitt, Lesley-Anne Down, Nigel Green…
- A moody late–Hammer Horror concerns the bloodthirsty deeds of Countess Bathory, she who liked to bathe in the blood of virgins to retain her…
- Edward and Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-series) (1978)
- Dir. Waris Hussein
Feat. Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Peggy Ashcroft…
- Tasteful, but perceptive television series follows the scandalous romance between British monarch Edward VIII and American socialite (and divorcee)…
- Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…