The best Maxwell Reed’s movies

Maxwell Reed

Maxwell Reed

02/04/1919- 31/10/1974
Today we present the best Maxwell Reed’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 Maxwell Reed’s movies.
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Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
6.1/10
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady
6.7/10
An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Sea Devils

Sea Devils
5.6/10
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.

Daybreak

Daybreak
6.6/10
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Picture Mommy Dead

Picture Mommy Dead
5.3/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 02/11/1966
  • Character: Anthony Flagmore
Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.

The Brothers

The Brothers
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/05/1947
  • Character: Fergus Macrae
An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Roadhouse Girl

Roadhouse Girl
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1953
  • Character: Tom Price
A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.

Der Korsar des Königs

Der Korsar des Königs
4.8/10
A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.

Flame of Araby

Flame of Araby
5.5/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 18/12/1951
  • Character: Prince Medina
An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.

Night Beat

Night Beat
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1947
  • Character: Felix Fenton
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

There Is Another Sun

There Is Another Sun
5.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 12/06/1951
  • Character: Eddie 'Racer' Peskett
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.

Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 21/01/1948
  • Character: Dan
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...

Madness of the Heart

Madness of the Heart
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 20/12/1949
  • Character: Joseph Rondolet
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

Dear Murderer

Dear Murderer
6.9/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 23/06/1947
  • Character: Jimmy Martin
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

The Brain Machine

The Brain Machine
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 01/01/1955
  • Character: Frank Smith
A British psychiatrist (Elizabeth Allan) reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

The Clouded Yellow

The Clouded Yellow
6.9/10
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.

The Years Between

The Years Between
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 08/07/1946
  • Character: American (uncredited)
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.

The Square Ring

The Square Ring
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/07/1953
  • Character: Rick Martell
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

Shadow of Fear

Shadow of Fear
6.4/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 01/01/1954
  • Character: Michael Elder
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

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