The best Allan Cuthbertson’s drama movies

Allan Cuthbertson

Allan Cuthbertson

07/04/1920- 08/02/1988
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The Adventurers

The Adventurers
5.2/10
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.

Performance

Performance
6.7/10
Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.

Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow
6.6/10
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.

Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex
7.7/10
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.

The Man Who Never Was

The Man Who Never Was
7.4/10
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

Freud: The Secret Passion

Freud: The Secret Passion
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/12/1962
  • Character: Wilkie (uncredited)
An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Assault

Assault
5.5/10
After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the wishes of a psychologist at the local hospital, a young teacher at the school the girls attended uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out. Could it be the creepy husband of the head mistress at the school, the psychologist who seems to be taking an unusual interest in the case, or something altogether more sinister?

The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple
6.9/10
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.

Room at the Top

Room at the Top
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/01/1959
  • Character: George Aisgill
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

The Mouse on the Moon

The Mouse on the Moon
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/05/1963
  • Character: Member of Whitehall Conference
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.

The Running Man

The Running Man
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/10/1963
  • Character: Jenkins
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.

I Was Monty's Double

I Was Monty's Double
6.9/10
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.

The Boys

The Boys
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/08/1962
  • Character: Randolph St. John
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1960
  • Character: Capt. Eric Simpson
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.

The Outsider

The Outsider
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/06/1980
  • Character: Stanley
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

Life at the Top

Life at the Top
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/12/1965
  • Character: George Aisgill
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.

Bitter Harvest

Bitter Harvest
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/03/1963
  • Character: Mr. Eccles
A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

Portrait of Alison

Portrait of Alison
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/11/1955
  • Character: Henry Carmichael
An actress (Terry Moore) and an artist (Robert Beatty) are linked by his brother (William Sylvester) to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

Term of Trial

Term of Trial
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/08/1962
  • Character: Sylvan-Jones
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.

Half a Sixpence

Half a Sixpence
6.4/10
The joyous screen version of the Broadway and London musical hit. "If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps (Tommy Steele). Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness? Multi-talented Steele brings his London and New York stage smash to the screen in this big, cheerful tune-filled production based on H.G. Wells' charming novel "Kipps." Cyril Ritchard costars as a thespian who introduces Arthur to the joys of Edwardian London's music halls. And a huge cast of high-stepping, high spirited singers and dancers have the time of their lives. Enjoy because "Half A Sixpence" gets you a million dollars' worth of fun.

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