The best Barbara Murray’s movies

Barbara Murray

Barbara Murray

27/09/1929- 20/05/2014
We present our ranking of the best Barbara Murray’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Barbara Murray.
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Passport to Pimlico

Passport to Pimlico
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/10/1949
  • Character: Shirley Pemberton
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt
6.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/03/1972
  • Character: Enid Jason
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.

Up Pompeii

Up Pompeii
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1971
  • Character: Ammonia
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
4.8/10
After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off.

Campbell's Kingdom

Campbell's Kingdom
6.3/10
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has been diagnosed with an unspecified terminal illness and decides to see if he can find the oil that his grandfather believed was present on his land, and to clear his family name; his grandfather had wrongly been found guilty of fraud when his oil exploration company went broke. Owen Morgan (Stanley Baker) is the boss of a company that is constructing a dam that when complete will flood the "Kingdom". It's a race against time to prove that the oil is there before the dam is completed.

Street Corner

Street Corner
6.7/10
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

A Dandy in Aspic

A Dandy in Aspic
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 02/04/1968
  • Character: Miss Vogler
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.

Doctor at Large

Doctor at Large
6/10
The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Doctor in Distress

Doctor in Distress
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/07/1963
  • Character: Iris Merchant
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

Meet Mr Lucifer

Meet Mr Lucifer
5.9/10
A T.V. set given as a retiremant present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. One of the Ealing comedies.

The Punch and Judy Man

The Punch and Judy Man
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1963
  • Character: Lady Jane Caterham
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.

Another Man's Poison

Another Man's Poison
6.8/10
Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly appears, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

Operation Bullshine

Operation Bullshine
5.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 30/06/1959
  • Character: Pvt. Betty Brown
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

A Cry from the Streets

A Cry from the Streets
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/08/1958
  • Character: Ann Fairlie
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.

Mystery Junction

Mystery Junction
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1951
  • Character: Pat Dawn
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.

Don't Ever Leave Me

Don't Ever Leave Me
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/07/1949
  • Character: Joan Robbins
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.

Death Goes to School

Death Goes to School
5.9/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/05/1953
  • Character: Miss Shepherd
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.

Doctor Who: Black Orchid

Doctor Who: Black Orchid
The TARDIS arrives in 1925 England where the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match due to a case of mistaken identity. The travellers accept an invitation to a masked fancy dress ball, but events take on a more sinister tone as murders are perpetrated at the country home of their host, Lord Charles Cranleigh.

Poet's Pub

Poet's Pub
6.1/10
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.

To the Public Danger

To the Public Danger
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1948
  • Character: (uncredited)
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.

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