The best Ian Carmichael’s movies

Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

18/06/1920- 05/02/2010
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The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes
6/10
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other passengers are led into confrontation with the Nazis and a desperate race for freedom.

Heavens Above!

Heavens Above!
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/05/1963
  • Character: The Other Smallwood
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

Betrayed

Betrayed
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 07/09/1954
  • Character: Capt. Jackie Lawson
Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an American colonel who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").

From Beyond the Grave

From Beyond the Grave
6.6/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 21/02/1974
  • Character: Reginald Warren
Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". A nasty fate awaits all of them—particularly those who cheat the shop's Proprietor.

I'm All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/08/1959
  • Character: Stanley Windrush
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.

Private's Progress

Private's Progress
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 17/02/1956
  • Character: Pte. Stanley Windrush
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/01/1955
  • Character: Robin Cartwright
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.

Smashing Time

Smashing Time
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/12/1967
  • Character: Bobby Mome-Rath
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.

Brothers in Law

Brothers in Law
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1957
  • Character: Roger Thursby
Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge (Miles Malleson) and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels
7.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1960
  • Character: Henry Palfrey
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

Happy Is the Bride

Happy Is the Bride
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/03/1958
  • Character: David Chaytor
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

Double Bunk

Double Bunk
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/05/1961
  • Character: Jack Goddard
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.

Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship
5.3/10
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to come slowly to realize it really is haunted..

Bond Street

Bond Street
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/05/1948
  • Character: Waiter
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1971
  • Character: Mr. Ferris (segment "Pride")
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..

Storm Over the Nile

Storm Over the Nile
6.2/10
Storm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but exactly the same screenplay, almost line-for-line also then directed by Zoltan Korda as well as several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Horden and Christopher Lee.[2] The film was shot on location in the Sudan.

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows
7.6/10
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machinations of the Weasels and is badly beaten. And it requires a plan of attack and all four comrades to regain Toad Hall.

Trottie True

Trottie True
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaMusic
  • Release: 29/09/1949
  • Character: Bill the Postman (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre
6.2/10
  • Release: 23/06/1959
  • Character: Robert Wilcot
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/11/1955
  • Character: David Prentice
Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show. Director Muriel Box's 1956 British comedy also stars Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham and Richard Wattis.

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