John Bentley

Still of the Night (1982)

When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being ...

The Front (1976)

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand. ...

Shadow of Treason (1963)

Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard come detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors a ...

The Sinister Man (1961)

When a corpse is found in the Thames, the only clue is that the dead man was killed by a karate or judo expert. ...

Mary Had a Little... (1961)

A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby. ...

The Singer Not the Song (1961)

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order. ...

Alice Through the Looking Box (1960)

A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set. ...

Sacred Waters (1960)

Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs. ...

Submarine Seahawk (1958)

For his first command in the Pacific war a by-the-book officer is ordered to take his submarine on a reconnaissance mission to locate a fleet of Japanese fighting ships the Allies have lost track of. At first, the rest of the crew resent his distant manner ...

Istanbul (1957)

A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he? ...

Escape in the Sun (1956)

Flight from Vienna (1956)

A Hungarian Secret Service official attempts to defect the country and earn political asylum in the West. ...

Dial 999 (1955)

A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more the ...

The Flaw (1955)

A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans. ...

Stolen Assignment (1955)

Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied a ...

Confession (1955)

A falling-out between thieves over the proceeds of a stickup results in several deaths and a priest being marked for murder because of a confession he receives from one of the gang members. ...

Golden Ivory (1954)

Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century. ...

Final Appointment (1954)

A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July ...

Profile (1954)

The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then he's accused of embezzling funds. ...

Double Exposure (1954)

A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer! ...

The Scarlet Spear (1954)

In colonial Kenya, chief's son believes he must kill another tribe's chief in ancient ritual before he can claim father's throne; district officer and female reporter try to stop him before he breaks colonial law. ...

River Beat (1954)

British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befriended an Inspector for the Thames River Patrol. ...

Men Against the Sun (1953)

An adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century. ...

Black Orchid (1953)

Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John ...

Salute the Toff (1952)

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films. ...

Tread Softly (1952)

Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre. ...

Paul Temple Returns (1952)

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from ...

The Big Frame (1952)

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered. ...

Hammer the Toff (1952)

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula. ...

The Woman's Angle (1952)

The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable l ...

A Christmas Carol (1950)

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is fac ...

She Shall Have Murder (1950)

A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive. ...

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the ...

Torment (1950)

A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. ...

Bait (1950)

John Bentley stars as a man who returns home to claim his inheritance. ...

Ten Little Indians (1949)

Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. Th ...

Calling Paul Temple (1948)

Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women. ...

The Hills of Donegal (1947)

Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley). ...