MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Frederick Leister

Frederick Leister

Frederick Leister is associated with: The Naked Edge

Sign up to watch Free Frederick Leister Movies

Movies Starring Frederick Leister (59)

The Naked Edge (1961)

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime. ...

Watch Now

Surprise Package (1960)

Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor. ...

Watch Now

Cone of Silence (1960)

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes. ...

Watch Now

Left Right and Centre (1959)

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-f ...

Watch Now

Rx Murder (1958)

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) ha ...

Watch Now

Dangerous Exile (1957)

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed ...

Watch Now

Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...

Watch Now

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife. ...

Watch Now

The Dam Busters (1955)

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'. ...

Watch Now

The End of the Affair (1955)

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair ...

Watch Now

Before I Wake (1955)

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 ...

Watch Now

The Time of His Life (1955)

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be ...

Watch Now

Souls in Conflict (1954)

An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham. ...

Watch Now

Top Secret (1952)

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin do ...

Watch Now

Circumstantial Evidence (1952)

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is m ...

Watch Now

The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval f ...

Watch Now

Green Grow the Rushes (1951)

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to cur ...

Watch Now

The Rossiter Case (1951)

The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor ...

Watch Now

The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a lin ...

Watch Now

Boys in Brown (1949)

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside. ...

Watch Now

Landfall (1949)

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that ...

Watch Now

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth. ...

Watch Now

All Over the Town (1949)

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to ...

Watch Now

For Them That Trespass (1949)

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, ...

Watch Now

Forbidden (1949)

Set on Blackpool's Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch ...

Watch Now

Quartet (1948)

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady. ...

Watch Now

Escape (1948)

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl. ...

Watch Now

Nightbeat (1947)

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman. ...

Watch Now

Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III. ...

Watch Now

So Well Remembered (1947)

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career. ...

Watch Now

The Captive Heart (1946)

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and ...

Watch Now

Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1945)

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home ...

Watch Now

The Agitator (1945)

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his soc ...

Watch Now

One Exciting Night (1944)

A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend. ...

Watch Now

The Hundred Pound Window (1944)

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd. ...

Watch Now

The Shipbuilders (1943)

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by G ...

Watch Now

Dear Octopus (1943)

Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies. ...

Watch Now

The Gentle Sex (1943)

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries. ...

Watch Now

We'll Meet Again (1943)

A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally does and becomes a star. She hooks up with a young musician who composes classical musi ...

Watch Now

The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across ...

Watch Now

The Next of Kin (1942)

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information ...

Watch Now

Atlantic Ferry (1941)

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone. ...

Watch Now

The Spell of Amy Nugent (1941)

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists. ...

Watch Now

The Prime Minister (1941)

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. ...

Watch Now

On the Night of the Fire (1939)

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder. ...

Watch Now

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to ...

Watch Now

The Outsider (1939)

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process. ...

Watch Now

Sixty Glorious Years (1938)

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'. ...

Watch Now

Dinner at the Ritz (1937)

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him. ...

Watch Now

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa. ...

Watch Now

The Show Goes On (1937)

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs. ...

Watch Now

O.H.M.S. (1937)

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's child ...

Watch Now

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936)

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. ...

Watch Now

The Iron Duke (1934)

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington ...

Watch Now

Evensong (1934)

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba... ...

Watch Now

The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1932)

A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance. ...

Watch Now

Down River (1931)

A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking. ...

Watch Now

Dreyfus (1931)

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace an ...

Watch Now

Bracelets (1931)

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them and after collecting the reward for their arrest, uses they money to buy some silver bracelets for his wif ...

Watch Now