Lewis Gilbert
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Good Die Young, The (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins…
- Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
- Reach for the Sky (1956)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More
- British WW2 favourite tells the courageous true story of pilot Douglas Bader who overcame the amputation of both legs to miraculously continue his…
- Admirable Crichton, The (1957)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes
- Comedy about an impeccable butler (Kenneth More) who becomes the ruler of an aristocratic family when social order is flipped after they all become…
- Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner…
- Brit war–time romance centred on a lady living in London during WW2 who marries and has a child with a French soldier. Upon hearing of his…
- Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Curt Jurgens
- Maritime adventure in which Orson Welles portrays a reluctant sea captain forced to take a shady rogue deportee from Hong Kong onboard his vessel…
- 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…
- Light Up the Sky! (1960)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Benny Hill, Dick Emery…
- Ian Carmichael leads an inept searchlight unit during in this bumbling and occasionally tragic wartime comedy. Larrikins Benny Hill and Tommy Steele…
- Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle
- Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
- Alfie (1965)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Michael Caine, Shelley Winters
- The film that made Michael Caine a household name. His eponymous anti–hero is that of a likely lad who likes to 'ave a go wiv the birds. They…
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Sean Connery, Donald Pleasence, Tetsuro Tamba
- The fifth Bond film starring Sean Connery as the agent supreme. A space flight is hijacked by sinister crime organisation Spectre, bringing the world…