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- DirectorMichael AndersonPeter UstinovStarsGodfrey TearleMaria DenisPeter UstinovAngelo has been draft into the Italian Army in World War II. He does not like people shooting at him, so he tries all sorts of tricks to avoid being caught up in the action. However, events always seem to lead him back to the fighting.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRobert NewtonKathleen HarrisonAvis ScottA worthless sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives, but the eldest daughter is not happy when her father decides to return.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMai ZetterlingIvor BarnardNicholas HannenA book entitled "Hell Is Sold Out" is sent to the publishers under the name of "Danges", a popular writer long believed to be dead. Then, the real and very much alive Dominic Danges turns up and meets the authoress who has been using his name.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsElizabeth SellarsMichael GoughRonald HowardMartin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil and nobody believes he survived. His wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man while Martin is found and returns. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsOscar HomolkaRobert UrquhartYvonne FurneauxA rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge ColeVeronica HurstHeather ThatcherAfter a mix-up at a music hall, a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddMichael RedgraveUrsula JeansDrama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.The film is over-long and the music score is, regrettably, very blatant; but despite these drawbacks, a mood of sober respect is maintained.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsEdmond O'BrienMichael RedgraveJan SterlingIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.It's undeniably shallow, but its cheerful lack of pretense -- as well as its grand scale and star-stuffed cast -- help make Around the World in 80 Days charmingly light-hearted entertainment.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddWilliam HartnellAkim TamiroffIn 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard ToddAnne BaxterHerbert LomAt Kimberley Prescott's villa, a stranger shows up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsJames CagneyDon MurrayDana WynterIn 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGary CooperCharlton HestonMichael RedgraveA disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
- DirectorMichael AndersonVincente MinnelliStarsRobert WagnerNatalie WoodSusan KohnerSalome, pregnant by Chad, runs away from her rural-Texas home and marries wealthy Yale student Tony. Years later she runs into Chad, who is now a successful musician in New York.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGary CooperDeborah KerrEric PortmanFive years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsYul BrynnerRichard WidmarkGeorge ChakirisA flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsTony CurtisChristine KaufmannLarry StorchCognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsSophia LorenGeorge PeppardTrevor HowardAllied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.Takes an unlikely scenario and ends it with an explosive fantasy James Bond-like finale.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsGeorge SegalAlec GuinnessMax von SydowIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.It relies on a straight narrative storyline, simple but holding, literate dialog and well-drawn characters.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsAnthony QuinnLaurence OlivierOskar WernerAfter spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.Critics have comically dubbed it Zorba the Pope.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsLiv UllmannJeremy KempNatasa NicolescuIn medieval Europe, a pious young woman becomes a scholar of theology, disguises herself as a man, rises through the Catholic Church hierarchy and is elected Pope.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRon ElyPaul GleasonWilliam LuckingDoc and the Amazing Five battle Captain Seas and "the green death" for control of a fabulous resource.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkRichard AttenboroughTrevor HowardAt a British Regimental party in Colonial India, the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden, and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior Lieutenants of the crime.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard JordanA police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.Logan's Run is a vast, silly extravaganza that delivers a certain amount of fun, once it stops taking itself seriously.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsRichard HarrisCharlotte RamplingWill SampsonA hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.The kind of movie that is so deranged in every way that you legitimately cannot guess where it's going next, and sort of can't wait to see it get there.