The best Richard Wattis’s drama movies

Richard Wattis

Richard Wattis

25/02/1912- 01/02/1975
Today we present the best Richard Wattis’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 Richard Wattis’s movies.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/06/1949
  • Character: Defence Counsel (uncredited)
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much
7.4/10
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

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.

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1963
  • Character: Sanders
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

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.

Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1954
  • Character: Albert Prosser
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

Libel

Libel
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/10/1959
  • Character: The Judge
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing
7.3/10
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Ten Seconds to Hell

Ten Seconds to Hell
6.5/10
Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 11/12/1958
  • Character: Mr. Murfin
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.

High Flight

High Flight
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/09/1957
  • Character: Wilson
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.O. of himself when young.

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 25/01/1955
  • Character: Richard Gordon
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.

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 Battle of the Villa Fiorita

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/05/1965
  • Character: Travel Agent
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.

Lease of Life

Lease of Life
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1954
  • Character: Solicitor
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Appointment in London

Appointment in London
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/02/1953
  • Character: Pascal
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.

I Am a Camera

I Am a Camera
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/07/1955
  • Character: Bespectacled Man at Book Launch
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.

Wonderwall

Wonderwall
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/05/1968
  • Character: Perkins
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated of her. He drills holes in her walls and ceiling and peeps on her day and night. He loses himself in daydreams and delusions

Park Plaza 605

Park Plaza 605
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/12/1953
  • Character: Theodore Feather
Suave private investigator, Norman Conquest, (Tom Conway) intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady, Nadina Rodin (Eva Bartok), in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams (Sid James) following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathisers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.

The Crowded Day

The Crowded Day
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1954
  • Character: Mr. Christopher
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

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