List of the best Eric Portman movies: 49th Parallel(1941), We Dive at Dawn(1943), Corridor of Mirrors(1948), Great Day(1945), The Good Companions(1957), A Canterbury Tale(1944), The Spider and the Fly(1949), The Whisperers(1967), One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942), Child in the House(1956), Men of Two Worlds(1946), The Naked Edge(1961) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada
1941
107 Minutes
Eric Portman Laurence Olivier Anton Walbrook Leslie Howard Raymond Massey Glynis Johns Niall MacGinnis Finlay Currie
nazi soldier trapper inuit native american priest patriotic melodramatic offbeat train canada hudson bay trading post countryside world war ii nazism war politics pursuit 1940s
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
War
UK
1943
98 Minutes
Eric Portman John Mills Leslie Weston Reginald Purdell Niall MacGinnis Joan Hopkins Josephine Wilson Louis Bradfield Ronald Millar Jack Watling Caven Watson
commanding officer sailor military officer enemy resistance fighter patriotic underwater military base england denmark world war ii submarine military engagement chase pursuit escape 1940s
All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
Drama
UK
1948
105 Minutes
Eric Portman Edana Romney Barbara Mullen Hugh Sinclair Bruce Belfrage Joan Maude Alan Wheatley Leslie Weston Lois Maxwell Valentine Dyall Christopher Lee
artist wealthy man beautiful woman lover eerie tense england mansion museum reincarnation romance obsession wealth art history mystery discovery fall 1940s
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Drama
UK
1945
82 Minutes
Eric Portman Flora Robson Sheila Sim Isabel Jeans Walter Fitzgerald Philip Friend Marjorie Rhodes Margaret Withers Beatrice Varley
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Musical
UK
1957
104 Minutes
Jess Oakroyd
Eric Portman Celia Johnson Hugh Griffith Janette Scott John Fraser Bobby Howes Rachel Roberts John Salew Mona Washbourne Paddy Stone Irving Davies
singer spinster songwriter dancing girl love interest spirited lighthearted england wales west end backstage music hall show business musical revue theater companionship romance revitalization transformation growing up
A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1944
124 Minutes
Thomas Colpeper, JP
Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Sheila Sim John Sweet Dennis Price Esmond Knight Charles Hawtrey Hay Petrie
soldier sergeant shopkeeper criminal lighthearted suspenseful amusing cathedral england small town hotel world war ii traveling mystery friendship discovery transformation mystery pursuit 1940s
A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Drama
1949
95 Minutes
Eric Portman Guy Rolfe Nadia Gray Maurice Denham James Hayter Arthur Lowe
police chief bank robber accomplice government official beautiful woman crafty intricate patriotic paris bank prison police station bank heist world war i crime police work investigation rivalry transformation pursuit
A police chief (Eric Portman) recruits his safecracker nemesis (Guy Rolfe) for a government job in World War I Paris.
Drama
UK
1967
106 Minutes
Edith Evans Eric Portman Nanette Newman Gerald Sim Avis Bunnage Ronald Fraser Leonard Rossiter Kenneth Griffith Harry Baird Margaret Tyzack Clare Kelly
old woman husband friend son thief brooding disheartening tense suspenseful apartment england welfare office alley old age schizophrenia senility robbery deception family discovery
Elderly Mrs. Ross lives alone in her meager flat, scraping by on government assistance even as she claims to have great wealth. After finding stolen money she is victimized, making it necessary to find her support in her declining years.
War
UK
1942
106 Minutes
Tom Earnshaw
Godfrey Tearle Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Hugh Williams Bernard Miles Hugh Burden Emrys Jones Googie Withers Pamela Brown
pilot co-pilot gunner schoolteacher resistance fighter nazi patriotic thrilling holland countryside farm small town school resistance world war ii nazi occupation air raids plane crash escape 1940s
During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
Drama
UK
1956
88 Minutes
young girl mother father relative emotional melodramatic intense touching hospital house great britain family relationships health loneliness destiny love rivalry quest escape rescue
Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. Her father, an often absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret one day.
Drama
UK
1946
109 Minutes
Phyllis Calvert Eric Portman Robert Adams
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1961
99 Minutes
Jeremy Clay
Gary Cooper Deborah Kerr Eric Portman Diane Cilento Hermione Gingold Peter Cushing Michael Wilding Ronald Howard Ray McAnally Sandor Eles Wilfrid Lawson
suspect employee business partner wife blackmailer husband engaging suspenseful office courtroom household blackmail murder case husband/wife relationship investigation false accusations quest mystery 1960s
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.
Drama
UK
1955
99 Minutes
Miller
Vivien Leigh Kenneth More Eric Portman Emlyn Williams Moira Lister Alec McCowen
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Horror
USA
1936
69 Minutes
Matthew Trimble
Tod Slaughter Marjorie Taylor Eric Portman Charles Penrose
Injured scientist Eric Godfrey asks his protege to give him a fatal dose of opiates to end his misery. When he dies the doctor is accused of murder.
Gay & Lesbian, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1968
120 Minutes
Richard Moreau
Michael Caine Giovanna Ralli Eric Portman Nanette Newman David Buck Leonard Rossiter Geraldine Sherman Carlos Pierre
jewel thief mastermind wife lover millionaire striking confident melodramatic shocking sanatorium mansion concert hall spain villa apartment heist sexual taboo secret past marriage unlikely allies
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices, the Moreaus, attempt to steal diamonds from the château of millionaire Salinas. However, Henry's partners in crime aren't the most emotionally stable people.
Crime, Drama
1963
93 Minutes
Richard Dyce
Alfred Lynch Kathleen Breck Eric Portman
ex-soldier aunt loser jazz musician criminal intense gory suspenseful thrilling emotional melodramatic london jazz club coffee shop accidental murder murder witness wealth deal police pursuit fear
A London loser (Alfred Lynch) with an ear for jazz agrees to kill an ex-army man's (Eric Portman) aunt.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK
1963
98 Minutes
Inspector Hofmeister
Stanley Baker Peter Cushing Mai Zetterling Eric Portman Niall MacGinnis Nigel Green Barbara Everest Harold Scott
father son immigrant brooding tense somber dark bavaria hometown iron curtain cover-up escape mystery underdog 1960s
A mysterious call summons Joe Newman to Bavaria in search of the father he believed dead for 20 years.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1966
93 Minutes
British Ambassador
Laurence Harvey Daliah Lavi Lionel Jeffries Eric Portman Denholm Elliott Colin Blakely Paul Ford Eric Sykes
A British spy (Lionel Jeffries) plants a bugging device on a bulldog officially presented to the Soviet premier.
Drama
1934
67 Minutes
Carlos
Tod Slaughter Sophie Stewart D.J. Williams Clare Greet Eric Portman Gerrard Tyrell Ann Trevor Antonia Brough Quentin McPherson Dennis Hoey
An English squire (Tod Slaughter) preys on a Victorian farmer's (D.J. Williams) daughter (Sophie Stewart).
Crime, Drama
1968
102 Minutes
Notary
Patrick O'Neal Joan Hackett John Gielgud Herbert Lom Eric Portman Peter Van Eyck Oscar Homolka Leon Greene
An insurance sleuth (Patrick O'Neal) goes to Switzerland to learn why a shipping tycoon's (John Gielgud) ships are sinking.
Adventure
UK|USA
1965
102 Minutes
Commodore Wolfgange Schrepke Deutsche Marine
Richard Widmark Sidney Poitier Martin Balsam James MacArthur Wally Cox Eric Portman Michael Kane Phil Brown Gary Cockrell Brian Davies Warren Stanhope
reporter naval officer medical officer commodore seaman captain tense chilling gripping arctic ocean ship infirmary naval warfare nuclear attack obsession journalism communism military life rivalry pursuit
An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
Biography
USA
1951
103 Minutes
Arthur Collings
Robert Donat Maria Schell Margaret Johnston Janette Scott Bernard Miles Frederick Valk John Howard Davies Eric Portman Richard Attenborough
inventor photographer family wife somber solemn moving england inventions movie camera family dysfunction quest fall love victorian era
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Biography
USA
1962
140 Minutes
Montgomery Clift Susannah York Larry Parks Susan Kohner Eileen Herlie Fernand Ledoux David McCallum Rosalie Crutchley David Kossoff Joseph Fürst Alexander Mango
psychiatrist patient mentor wife brooding dreamy inspiring vienna mental institution paris sigmund freud psychoanalysis dreams ambition mental illness discovery transformation underdog 1880s
An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.