List of the best Michael Goodliffe movies: The Day the Earth Caught Fire(1961), Jigsaw(1961), The End of the Affair(1955), The 7th Dawn(1964), Up the Creek(1958), To the Devil a Daughter(1976), Sea Devils(1953), The Fifth Day of Peace(1972), The Wooden Horse(1950), 633 Squadron(1964), The 39 Steps(1959), Peeping Tom(1960) ... ...
Sci-Fi
UK
1961
99 Minutes
Jacko Jackson the Night Editor
Janet Munro Leo McKern Edward Judd Michael Goodliffe Bernard Braden Reginald Beckwith Gene Anderson Renee Asherson
journalist government official russian general weather forecaster president friend bleak powerful chilling london united states destroyed city office abandoned building nuclear weapons testing apocalypse natural disasters journalism race against time epidemic
When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.
Mystery & Thriller
1961
107 Minutes
Clyde Burchard
Jack Warner Ronald Lewis Yolande Mallott Michael Goodliffe John Le Mesurier Moira Redmond Christine Bocca Brian Oulton Ray Barrett Norman Chappell John Barron
murderer victim detective investigator creative dark engaging gripping intricate uneasy united kingdom murder murder case murder investigation mystery mystery 20th century
Two detectives (Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis) try to solve a woman's brutal murder by reconstructing her past.
Drama
UK|USA
1955
106 Minutes
Smythe
Deborah Kerr Van Johnson John Mills Peter Cushing Michael Goodliffe Stephen Murray Charles Goldner Nora Swinburne
writer wife priest detective lover husband melodramatic suspenseful family home inn apartment london adultery god love triangle world war ii disillusionment bombing forbidden love sacrifice
In WW2 London, a writer falls in-love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man.
Action
UK|USA
1964
123 Minutes
Trumphey
William Holden Susannah York Capucine Tetsuro Tamba Michael Goodliffe Allan Cuthbertson Maurice Denham Sydney Tafler Beulah Quo Hugh Robinson David Keith
businessman girlfriend revolutionary daughter tense gritty thrilling fiery british malaya jungle guerrilla warfare political coup unusual friendship death row hostage situation world war ii pursuit rescue 1950s
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Comedy
UK
1958
86 Minutes
Nelson
David Tomlinson Peter Sellers Wilfrid Hyde-White Vera Day Michael Goodliffe Liliane Sottane
During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|West Germany
1976
95 Minutes
George de Grass
Richard Widmark Christopher Lee Honor Blackman Denholm Elliott Michael Goodliffe Nastassja Kinski Eva Maria Meineke Anthony Valentine Derek Francis Izabella Telezynska Constantine Gregory
occultist frightening convent possession satanism rescue 1970s
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
Adventure
UK
1953
90 Minutes
Ragan
Yvonne De Carlo Rock Hudson Maxwell Reed Denis O'Dea Michael Goodliffe Bryan Forbes Jacques B. Brunius Ivor Barnard Arthur Wontner Gérard Oury Larry Taylor
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon, if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Douchette, an English agent, whose cover has been blown,and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Drama
1972
98 Minutes
Gen. Snow
Richard Johnson Franco Nero Larry Aubrey Bud Spencer Michael Goodliffe Helmut Schneider
Several disillusioned German soldiers aimlessly wander the war-ravaged Italian countryside following the armistice.
War
UK
1950
101 Minutes
Robbie
Leo Genn Anthony Steel David Tomlinson David Greene Peter Burton Michael Goodliffe Anthony Dawson
prisoner of war captain british soldier british officer nazi commandant lieutenant intense tense suspenseful gripping engaging gutsy nazi germany concentration camp survival prisoners of war world war ii nazism tunneling gymnastics
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
War
UK|USA
1964
101 Minutes
Squadron Leader Frank Adams
Cliff Robertson George Chakiris Maria Perschy Harry Andrews Donald Houston Michael Goodliffe
pilot soldier british officer nazi resistance fighter sister patriotic tense solemn inspiring norway england mountain fjord airplane military base world war ii secret mission suicide mission aviation
An RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1959
93 Minutes
Brown
Kenneth More Taina Elg Brenda De Banzie Barry Jones Reginald Beckwith Faith Brook Michael Goodliffe James Hayter
man diplomat spy assassin schoolteacher police officer spectacular frenetic thrilling suspenseful scotland london train music hall boarding school police station espionage treason escape pursuit
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
109 Minutes
Don Jarvis
Karl Boehm Moira Shearer Anna Massey Maxine Audley Esmond Knight Bartlett Mullins Shirley Anne Field Michael Goodliffe Brenda Bruce Martin Miller Pamela Green
murderer victim neighbor police officer psychiatrist photographer dark fascinating intense disturbing london film set hotel apartment voyeurism fear serial murders filmmaking secret research
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Comedy
USA
1959
88 Minutes
Detective
Peter Sellers Robert Morley Constance Cummings Jameson Clark Ernest Thesiger Donald Pleasence Moultrie Kelsall Alex Mackenzie Roddy McMillan Michael Goodliffe Noel Howlett
accountant business woman american business owner colleague hilarious lighthearted playful amusing edinburgh factory comedy battle of the sexes male/female relationship failing business sexism modernization rivalry 20th century
A detective is assigned to track down and capture a crazed serial rapist.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1964
117 Minutes
Gina Lollobrigida Sean Connery Ralph Richardson Johnny Sekka Alexander Knox Laurence Hardy Danny Daniels Peter Madden Joseph Wise Ronald Hatton Michael Goodliffe
nephew uncle nurse detective butler millionaire suspenseful melodramatic england mansion yacht wedding scam marrying for money manipulation inheritance deception investigation temptation rivalry
Tyrannical, but ailing, tycoon Charles Richmond becomes very fond of his attractive Italian nurse, Maria. The nurse, in turn, falls in love with Charles' ne'er-do-well nephew Anthony, who plots ways to gain control of his uncle's fortune.
Drama, History
UK|USA
1955
101 Minutes
Robert Taylor Kay Kendall Robert Morley George Cole Alec Clunes Duncan Lamont Laya Raki Marius Goring Wilfrid Hyde-White Eric Pohlmann Harcourt Williams
louis xi duke of burgundy knight countess gypsy lord thrilling passionate scotland castle france chateau arranged marriage royalty gallantry sword battles historical events love adventure underdog
A Scottish knight in France to facilitate a marriage between a rich and beautiful countess and his aging uncle becomes involved in court intrigue.
History, Drama, Biography
UK|USA
1970
145 Minutes
Richard Harris Alec Guinness Robert Morley Dorothy Tutin Frank Finlay Timothy Dalton Patrick Wymark Patrick Magee Nigel Stock Charles Gray Michael Jayston
king charles i earl queen prince general patriotic powerful dense rousing england battlefield palace parliament oliver cromwell civil wars english history power struggle parliament patriotism rise
Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.
Drama, History
UK|Italy
1973
106 Minutes
Alec Guinness Simon Ward Adolfo Celi Diane Cilento Gabriele Ferzetti Eric Porter Doris Kunstmann Joss Ackland John Barron John Bennett Sheila Gish
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
Adventure
UK
1953
89 Minutes
Richard Todd Glynis Johns James Robertson Justice Michael Gough Jean Taylor Smith Geoffrey Keen Finlay Currie Archie Duncan Russell Waters Marjorie Fielding Eric Pohlmann
The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.