List of the best Vera Day movies: The Woman Eater(1959), Up the Creek(1958), The Haunted Strangler(1958), And the Same to You(1960), Quatermass II(1957), Too Many Crooks(1959), A Kid for Two Farthings(1956), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998) ... ...
Horror
1959
70 Minutes
George Coulouris Vera Day Peter Forbes-Robertson Robert MacKenzie Norman Claridge Marpessa Dawn Jimmy Vaughn Sara Leighton
A deranged scientist returns from the Amazon with a carnivorous plant that has the power to restore life to the dead.
Comedy
UK
1958
86 Minutes
Lily
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
UK
1958
81 Minutes
Pearl
Boris Karloff Anthony Dawson Elizabeth Allan Jean Kent Vera Day Tim Turner Diane Aubrey Dorothy Gordon Desmond Roberts Peggy Ann Clifford
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Comedy, Drama
1960
85 Minutes
Cynthia Tripp
Sidney James Brian Rix Leo Franklyn Tommy Cooper Vera Day Renee Houston Dick Bentley
clergyman boxer nephew uncle manager woman airy amusing hilarious heartwarming inspiring charming great britain boxing ring church lie boxing secret career family relationships
The boxing-mad nephew of a pious clergyman embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his boxing career a secret.
Sci-Fi
1957
84 Minutes
Sheila
Brian Donlevy Michael Ripper Sidney James Bryan Forbes John Longden Vera Day William Franklyn
professor soldier government official government agent colleague suspenseful campy creepy playful england moon government building alien invasion saving the world science conspiracy cover-up investigation underdog quest
British Dr. Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) finds a colony of pressure domes built by aliens who are taking over officials.
Comedy
UK
1959
85 Minutes
Charmaine
Terry-Thomas Brenda De Banzie George Cole Bernard Bresslaw Sidney James Joe Melia Vera Day Nicholas Parsons Rosalie Ashley
millionaire kidnapper criminal wife husband amusing madcap london mansion kidnapping theft family dysfunction incompetency mistaken identity ransom revenge pursuit 1950s
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the ... See full summary »
Fantasy
UK
1956
91 Minutes
Mimi
Celia Johnson Diana Dors David Kossoff Joe Robinson Jonathan Ashmore Brenda De Banzie Vera Day Primo Carnera Sydney Tafler Sidney James Daphne Anderson
son mother tailor goat charming touching spirited london childhood mother/child relationship poverty wishes animals growing up discovery underdog 1950s
In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1998
105 Minutes
Jason Flemyng Dexter Fletcher Nick Moran Jason Statham Steven Mackintosh Vinnie Jones Sting Lenny McLean P.H. Moriarty Steve Sweeney Frank Harper
poker player kingpin bodyguard thief drug dealer father cheeky offbeat madcap london apartment building boxing ring gangsters robbery gambling debt escape underdog adventure 1990s
Eddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.