Richard Leech
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-11-24
Locus Natus: Dublin, Ireland
Et ut: Richard Leeper McClelland
A Night to Remember
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...
release : 1958.07.03popularis : 18.196
The Flood
Eight youngsters are cut off by the East Anglian floods in a farmhouse with no grown-ups to help them. The story tells how they deal with the...
release : 1963.01.01popularis : 1.095
Night of the Demon
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...
release : 1957.11.09popularis : 18.213
The Terror of the Tongs
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets,...
release : 1961.03.15popularis : 2.594
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...
release : 1957.04.01popularis : 3.359
The Iron Petticoat
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain...
release : 1956.09.01popularis : 2.806
A Handful of Dust
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance...
release : 1988.06.24popularis : 4.021
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then...
release : 1966.10.01popularis : 1.573
The Wind Cannot Read
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy...
release : 1958.06.10popularis : 4.554
The Unborn
A physicist has apocalyptic visions of his unborn baby.
release : 1980.05.15popularis : 0.498
I Thank a Fool
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has...
release : 1962.09.14popularis : 3.781
Dublin Nightmare
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 1.236
Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
release : 1957.03.21popularis : 5.32
The Mirror Crack'd
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
release : 1980.09.19popularis : 10.184
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court...
release : 1958.10.10popularis : 0.742
Walk a Tightrope
Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has been killed and she's under suspicion despite the...
release : 1963.08.26popularis : 0.86
The Moonraker
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future...
release : 1958.08.02popularis : 2.346
The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...
release : 1956.06.01popularis : 5.223
The Dam Busters
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...
release : 1955.05.16popularis : 14.111
The War Lover
Buzz Rickson is a dare-devil World War II bomber pilot with a death wish. Failing at everything not involving flying, Rickson lives for the most...
release : 1962.10.25popularis : 5.152
Men's Madness - The Myth of Male Reason
Provocative, feminist critique of man’s technological progress.
release : 1991.01.01popularis : 1.292
Occupations
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.749
Champions
The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National
release : 1984.04.20popularis : 3.623
Ice Cold in Alex
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader...
release : 1958.06.24popularis : 17.315
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
release : 1982.12.01popularis : 18.89
The Birthday Present
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....
release : 1957.10.31popularis : 6.748
Choice
When a married woman decides to leave her husband for a much younger man she incurs the wrath of her family. But is this her only chance of happiness?
release : 1974.06.30popularis : 0.283
Lease of Life
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.
release : 1954.10.18popularis : 3.537
Ricochet
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her...
release : 1963.01.01popularis : 1.84
Got It Made
Drama set in Norfolk, England. An aristocratic girl whose world falls apart three days before her wedding. She discovers the hideous truths about the...
release : 1974.12.12popularis : 0.897
Children Galore
As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive...
release : 1955.02.01popularis : 4.261
Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing Mankind to colonise first Mars and then Pluto. No longer the coldest planet in the...
release : 1977.12.17popularis : 2.664
These Dangerous Years
A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
release : 1957.07.03popularis : 2.34
The Good Companions
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
release : 1957.04.22popularis : 1.578
The Shooting Party
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal...
release : 1985.02.01popularis : 6.623
Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war...
release : 1972.07.20popularis : 8.298
A Choice of Evils
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but...
release : 1977.04.19popularis : 2.26
The Cruel Sea
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....
release : 1953.02.24popularis : 9.78
Madama Butterfly - The Met
With Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese geisha at the heart of his Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini created one of the most commanding soprano roles in...
release : 1994.12.21popularis : 0.605
Life at the Top
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But...
release : 1965.12.14popularis : 3.989
It's Never Too Late
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is...
release : 1956.05.07popularis : 2.458
Twelfth Night
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of identity, gender and love in Tony Award-winner John...
release : 1970.07.12popularis : 3.063
A Lady Mislaid
Esther and her sister Jennifer have just taken a remote country cottage. But there is strange gossip about the previous occupants.
release : 1958.01.01popularis : 0.365
Brassneck
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property...
release : 1975.05.22popularis : 1.219
The Feminine Touch
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...
release : 1956.06.19popularis : 3.818