The best Edward Underdown’s movies

Edward Underdown

Edward Underdown

03/12/1908- 15/12/1989
Today we present the best Edward Underdown’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Edward Underdown’s movies.
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Thunderball

Thunderball
6.9/10
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil
6.4/10
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.

Khartoum

Khartoum
6.8/10
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.

Triple Cross

Triple Cross
6.3/10
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
6.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 23/02/1965
  • Character: Tod (segment 1 "Werewolf")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.

Traitor's Gate

Traitor's Gate
5.7/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 18/12/1964
  • Character: Inspector Adams
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
7.2/10
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.

Dr. Crippen

Dr. Crippen
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1963
  • Character: The Governor
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

The Camp on Blood Island

The Camp on Blood Island
6.5/10
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.

The Two-Headed Spy

The Two-Headed Spy
6.9/10
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.

Running Scared

Running Scared
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/05/1972
  • Character: Mr. Betancourt
When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.

Brass Monkey

Brass Monkey
5.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 01/12/1948
  • Character: Max Taylor
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.

The Third Alibi

The Third Alibi
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 01/09/1961
  • Character: Dr. Peter Murdoch
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

The October Man

The October Man
7/10
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Man on the Run

Man on the Run
6.7/10
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.

The Voice of Merrill

The Voice of Merrill
6.7/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/12/1952
  • Character: Hugh Allen
A convicted female blackmailer is found murdered in her flat and suspicion falls on three men, all of whom the police believe may have had reason to wish her dead

Recoil

Recoil
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1953
  • Character: Michael Conway
A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.

Inspector Hornleigh

Inspector Hornleigh
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 07/03/1939
  • Character: Peter Dench
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.

Doctor Who: Meglos

Doctor Who: Meglos
On the lush planet Tigella, two opposing factions are divided over the usage of the Dodecahedron, an ancient and powerful artefact which provides the entire planet's energy. The Doctor is summoned to arbitrate the conflict, but the power-crazed Meglos intercepts the call and impersonates him in order to steal the Dodecahedron.

Tarka the Otter

Tarka the Otter
6.7/10
Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows the life of Tarka the Otter from his birth into adulthood. We witness his close shaves, and his struggle with a man who tries to keep our furry hero as a pet.

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