List of the best Jack Watling movies: Three on a Spree(1961), Journey Together(1945), Meet Mr. Lucifer(1954), Paradise Lagoon(1957), Under Capricorn(1949), The Winslow Boy(1948), The Demi-Paradise(1943), Mr. Arkadin(1955), We Dive at Dawn(1943), Quartet(1948), Gideon of Scotland Yard(1958) ... ...
Comedy
1961
83 Minutes
Jack Watling Carole Lesley Renee Houston John Slater Colin Gordon John Salew Julian Orchard Libby Morris
An Englishman (Jack Watling) inherits a fortune but must spend a million in 60 days, and prove it, to get it.
War
UK
1945
95 Minutes
pilot friend cadet instructor brash patriotic rousing england united states canada flight school airplane training camp world war ii basic training mission aspirations aviation friendship quest
British propaganda film from WW2 stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
Comedy
UK
1954
81 Minutes
Jim Norton
retiree lucifer couple amusing charming witty spirited playful madcap england home television modern life technology discovery wretched excess 1950s
A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time.
Comedy
UK|USA
1957
94 Minutes
Treherne
Kenneth More Diane Cilento Cecil Parker Sally Ann Howes Martita Hunt Jack Watling Peter Graves Gerald Harper Mercy Haystead Miranda Connell Miles Malleson
lord lady butler staff member maid charming confident creative dreamy lighthearted positive manor london yacht deserted island paradise class conflict survival survival skills discovery
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
Drama
UK
1949
117 Minutes
Winter
Ingrid Bergman Joseph Cotten Michael Wilding Margaret Leighton Cecil Parker Denis O'Dea Jack Watling Harcourt Williams John Ruddock Ronald Adam Francis De Wolff
A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.
Drama
1948
117 Minutes
Dickie Winslow
Robert Donat Cedric Hardwicke Margaret Leighton Basil Radford Kathleen Harrison Francis L. Sullivan Marie Lohr Jack Watling Frank Lawton Neil North Walter Fitzgerald
father son sister mother lawyer emotional spirited england courtroom school court battles lawsuit family justice school quest sacrifice 1900s
The plight of a young boy unjustly accused of stealing touches off a massive lawsuit for defamation of character.
Romance
1943
115 Minutes
Tom
Laurence Olivier Penelope Dudley Ward Marjorie Fielding Margaret Rutherford Felix Aylmer Edie Martin Joyce Grenfell Jack Watling Miles Malleson John Laurie Wilfrid Hyde-White
russian landlady englishman scientist inventor communist cheeky winsome england apartment building russia cross-cultural romance culture clash inventions immigration allied forces world war ii love rivalry discovery
The Russian inventor (Laurence Olivier) of a new marine propeller falls in love with a woman (Penelope Ward) in 1939 London.
Drama
1955
99 Minutes
Marquis of Rutleigh
Orson Welles Michael Redgrave Robert Arden Paola Mori Patricia Medina Akim Tamiroff Mischa Auer Katina Paxinou Jack Watling Gregoire Aslan Peter Van Eyck
wealthy man ex-convict murderer smuggler gangster daughter creative dark dense copenhagen, denmark mexico amsterdam railyard street amnesia investigation deception mystery transformation adventure
A shady financier (Orson Welles) pays a man (Robert Arden) to research his past, in order to erase it with murder.
War
UK
1943
98 Minutes
Lt. Gordon
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
120 Minutes
Harold French Ralph Smart Dirk Bogarde Francoise Rosay Mervyn Johns Ian Fleming James Robertson Justice Mai Zetterling Bernard Lee Cecil Parker
tennis player father pianist colonel mistress poet amusing lighthearted charming england paris monte carlo, monaco hobby tennis poetry piano sacrifice transformation adventure 1940s
Four of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author. In the first story, "The Facts of Life", a young man with great potential on the ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
UK|USA
1958
91 Minutes
Jack Hawkins Dianne Foster Cyril Cusack Anna Lee Anna Massey Andrew Ray James Hayter Ronald Howard Howard Marion-Crawford Laurence Naismith Derek Bond
scotland yard detective daughter police officer brash confident engaging frenetic gutsy witty london office crime bribery pursuit 1950s
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.