The best Ursula Howells’s movies

Ursula Howells

Ursula Howells

17/09/1922- 16/10/2005
Today we present the best Ursula Howells’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 Ursula Howells’s movies.
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The Long Arm

The Long Arm
7/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 01/06/1956
  • Character: Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
6.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 23/02/1965
  • Character: Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (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.

Torture Garden

Torture Garden
6.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/11/1967
  • Character: Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.

Crossplot

Crossplot
5.4/10
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.

A Rather English Marriage

A Rather English Marriage
7.7/10
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.

80,000 Suspects

80,000 Suspects
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1963
  • Character: Joanna Duten
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

The Constant Husband

The Constant Husband
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/04/1955
  • Character: Ann
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
6.5/10
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.

The Oracle

The Oracle
6.4/10
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Account Rendered

Account Rendered
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeMystery
  • Release: 01/08/1957
  • Character: Lucille Ainsworth
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.

Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood
5.9/10
  • Release: 06/03/1951
  • Character: Harriet Marshall
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.

The Weak and the Wicked

The Weak and the Wicked
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/02/1954
  • Character: Pam Vickers
Jean Raymond (Glynis Johns) an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

The Tichborne Claimant

The Tichborne Claimant
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/08/1998
  • Character: Lady Doughty
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.

The Cold Room

The Cold Room
5/10
A girl visiting modern day East Germany with her estranged father begins reliving the horrifying events that happened to a young girl living there during World War II.

I Believe in You

I Believe in You
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/03/1952
  • Character: Hon. Ursula
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

A Pinch of Snuff

A Pinch of Snuff
Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.

Track the Man Down

Track the Man Down
6.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/06/1955
  • Character: Mary Dennis
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

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