Movies: Richard Wattis

  • 1952
    Derby Day

    Derby Day (1952)

    Derby Day

    6.51952HD

    Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class cou...

    Derby Day
  • 1960
    Your Money or Your Wife

    Your Money or Your Wife (1960)

    Your Money or Your Wife

    41960HD

    Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on hal...

    Your Money or Your Wife
  • 1952
    Song of Paris

    Song of Paris (1952)

    Song of Paris

    5.51952HD

    An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle....

    Song of Paris
  • 1962
    I Thank a Fool

    I Thank a Fool (1962)

    I Thank a Fool

    5.51962HD

    After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emoti...

    I Thank a Fool
  • 1959
    Left Right and Centre

    Left Right and Centre (1959)

    Left Right and Centre

    61959HD

    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...

    Left Right and Centre
  • 1953
    Blood Orange

    Blood Orange (1953)

    Blood Orange

    5.31953HD

    Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered....

    Blood Orange
  • 1956
    A Touch of the Sun

    A Touch of the Sun (1956)

    A Touch of the Sun

    5.61956HD

    A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties....

    A Touch of the Sun
  • 1972
    That's Your Funeral

    That's Your Funeral (1972)

    That's Your Funeral

    2.31972HD

    Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other....

    That's Your Funeral
  • 1971
    Games That Lovers Play

    Games That Lovers Play (1971)

    Games That Lovers Play

    3.61971HD

    Joanna Lumley and Penny Brahms star as notorious prostitutes Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley faced with the challenge of seducing the seemingly impossible in this 1970s sex comedy...

    Games That Lovers Play
  • 1956
    It's a Wonderful World

    It's a Wonderful World (1956)

    It's a Wonderful World

    5.31956HD

    Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer....

    It's a Wonderful World
  • 1952
    Made in Heaven

    Made in Heaven (1952)

    Made in Heaven

    41952HD

    Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid....

    Made in Heaven
  • 1949
    The Chiltern Hundreds

    The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)

    The Chiltern Hundreds

    51949HD

    Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in ...

    The Chiltern Hundreds
  • 1965
    Up Jumped a Swagman

    Up Jumped a Swagman (1965)

    Up Jumped a Swagman

    41965HD

    A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time....

    Up Jumped a Swagman
  • 1973
    Take Me High

    Take Me High (1973)

    Take Me High

    4.51973HD

    Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his promised New York for his posting! But comedy reig...

    Take Me High
  • 1961
    Very Important Person

    Very Important Person (1961)

    Very Important Person

    5.21961HD

    Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a ...

    Very Important Person
  • 1953
    Background

    Background (1953)

    Background

    61953HD

    Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causin...

    Background
  • 1962
    Venus fra Vestø

    Venus fra Vestø (1962)

    Venus fra Vestø

    5.61962HD

    Vestø island's isolated community's prize cow is in danger of being abducted by German WWII occupation forces....

    Venus fra Vestø
  • 1960
    Follow That Horse!

    Follow That Horse! (1960)

    Follow That Horse!

    01960HD

    A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies....

    Follow That Horse!
  • 1956
    The Silken Affair

    The Silken Affair (1956)

    The Silken Affair

    11956HD

    An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree....

    The Silken Affair
  • 1965
    The Bargain

    The Bargain (1965)

    The Bargain

    01965HD

    A BAFTA award nominated animation....

    The Bargain