Movies: Valentine Dyall

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis with...

An offbeat anthology film, mix of sex, horror and humor filmed in varied styles....

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city....

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships ont...

Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the o...

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping....

A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife....

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison)....

An aristocratic widow discovers that her former lover, a medical officer in the British army, is secretly a German spy....

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent....

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram w...

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two....

Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy....

When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman's late wife, and her lover, whom the sailor had shot....

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria - a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers - and thereafter devotes his b...

In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes hers...

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden....

An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name....

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance....

An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act....