Frank Launder — Producer (8)
Captain Boycott (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Captain Boycott
other title: El rebelde / Capitán Boycott
In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Geordie (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Geordie
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Bill Travers
other title: 若い河
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Folly to Be Wise (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Folly to Be Wise
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Elizabeth Allan
other title: 愚蠢明智 / 畫裡真真
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
The Rake's Progress (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Rake's Progress
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Rex Harrison / Lilli Palmer
other title: Der letzte Sündenfall / 風流公子
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
London Belongs to Me (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
London Belongs to Me
other title: Londres appartient à moi / Londres me pertenece
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
State Secret (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
State Secret
other title: Staatsgeheimnis / Secret d'état
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Ooh...You Are Awful (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ooh...You Are Awful
director: Cliff Owen actor: Dick Emery / Derren Nesbitt
other title: Tatuajes indiscretos / Ooh… You Are Awful
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss bank and after Charlie is released, is about to tell him where...when he is suddenly killed by Sid Sabbath's gang, whose girlfriend was dating the (now) deceased! The only leads are four tattoos on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail, but Sabbath is on Charlie's trail, and the tricked Italians have contracted the mob - to find the money, and then kill him...
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
director: 弗兰克·劳德 actor: Cecil Parker / George Cole
other title: 特里安的纯真地狱 / 烏龍女校
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.