Released Date:
1956-02-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
93 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (550 Reviews)
Director:
Ralph ThomasGenres:
ComedyRichard Gordon (by)
Richard Gordon (adapted for the screen by)
Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)
Jack Davies (screenplay)
With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship. As soon as he sets foot on board, Simon encounters various eccentric characters (including quick-tempered, authoritarian, whisky- addicted captain Hogg)and gets involved in many an embarrassing situation (including seasickness). In Rio he gets to know Hèlène Colbert , a sexy young French singer and falls under her spell. When woman hater Hogg is forced to take on two female characters, Muriel Mallet, the daughter of the shipping company and her friend ... Hèlène on his freighter, Simon is delighted!
Released Date:
1956-06-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (12515 Reviews)
Director:
John HustonHerman Melville (novel)
Ray Bradbury (screenplay)
John Huston (screenplay)
This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick.
Released Date:
1957-04-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
(530 Reviews)
Director:
Ralph ThomasGenres:
ComedyRichard Gordon (novel)
Nicholas Phipps (screenplay)
Dr. Sparrow graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital's governors and finally gets his place on the staff.
Released Date:
1958-07-25
Languages:
English, French, German
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
93 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (183 Reviews)
Director:
Anthony AsquithPaul Dehn
Donald Downes (novel)
George St. George
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
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