List of the best Wensley Pithey movies: Guilt Is My Shadow(1950), Serious Charge(1959), Oh! What a Lovely War(1969), The Knack, and How to Get It(1965), Oliver!(1968) ... ...
Crime, Drama
UK
1950
85 Minutes
Tillingham
Elizabeth Sellars Patrick Holt Lana Morris Peter Reynolds Lawrence O'Madden Esma Cannon Wensley Pithey Avice Landone
getaway driver uncle estranged wife mother love interest brooding melodramatic suspenseful intense engaging devon, england accidental murder reunion guilt self-defense conscience discovery escape fall 1950s
After a failed bank robbery the getaway driver flees to the Devon countryside and the farm of his uncle.
Drama
1959
105 Minutes
Police Sergeant
Anthony Quayle Sarah Churchill Andrew Ray Irene Browne Percy Herbert Noel Howlett Wensley Pithey Leigh Madison Judith Furse Jean Cadell Wilfrid Brambell
vicar petty criminal pregnant teen jealous woman parishioner wrongly accused brooding melodramatic intense dark engaging uneasy england wrongfully accused allegation teen pregnancy small-town life religion child abuse discovery
A punk (Andrew Ray) commits murder and accuses the new minister (Anthony Quayle) in town of the crime.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1969
144 Minutes
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ralph Richardson Laurence Olivier John Gielgud Kenneth More John Clements Ian Holm Meriel Forbes Wensley Pithey Ruth Kettlewell Paul Daneman Corin Redgrave
recruiter soldier singer archduke franz ferdinand quirky profound emotional disheartening pier stage trenches united kingdom belgium brighton, england world war i family song and dance anti-war class distinctions growing up
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Comedy
UK
1965
84 Minutes
Teacher
Rita Tushingham Ray Brooks Michael Crawford Donal Donnelly William Dexter Charles Dyer Margot Thomas John Bluthal Wensley Pithey Helen Lennox Peter Copley
schoolteacher artist roommate country girl ladies' man madcap creative london house park seduction sex changing times competition revolution underdog temptation love growing up 1960s
A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
Musical
1968
146 Minutes
Ron Moody Oliver Reed Mark Lester Shani Wallis Harry Secombe Jack Wild Hugh Griffith Joseph O'Conor Peggy Mount Leonard Rossiter Hylda Baker
oliver twist pickpocket criminal wealthy man kidnapper girlfriend spirited cheeky london orphanage street hideout kidnapping class distinctions child abuse crime growing up escape 1830s
Dickens' Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) goes from parish boy to Fagin's (Ron Moody) pickpocketing school to the clutches of murderous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed).