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Sidney Gilliat (15 February 1908 – 31 May 1994) was an English film director, producer and writer.
He was born in the district of Edgeley in Stockport, Cheshire. In the 1930s he worked as a scriptwriter, most notably with Frank Launder on The Lady Vanishes (1938) for Alfred Hitchcock, and its sequel Night Train to Munich (1940), directed by Carol Reed. He and Launder made their directorial debut co-directing the home front drama Millions Like Us (1943). From 1945 he also worked as a producer, starting with The Rake's Progress, which he also wrote and directed. He and Launder made over 40 films together, founding their own production company Individual Pictures. While Launder concentrated on directing their comedies, most famously the four St Trinian's School films, Gilliat showed a preference for comedy-thrillers and dramas, including Green for Danger (1946), London Belongs to Me (1948) and State Secret (1950).
He wrote the libretto for Malcolm Williamson's opera Our Man in Havana, based on the novel by Graham Greene. He had also worked on the film.
He married Beryl Brewer in the early 30s. He had two children: Joanna Gilliat, who is a journalist and is married to Edward Russell, a pilot and Caroline Gilliat, who was an opera singer and teacher, who was married to Anthony Cave Brown (journalist). He had 3 grand children, Amanda Eliasch, Toby Brown and Camilla Horn.
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22 September 1931
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force.
01 May 1938
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident.
15 June 1933
In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland.
05 February 1945
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
01 September 1935
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum.
11 September 1936
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked.
04 December 1931
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial.
01 November 1933
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road.
24 July 1930
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
21 April 1955
Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world.
01 May 1934
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
29 April 1939
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
04 December 1952
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables.
10 August 1936
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later.
20 September 1982
Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham.
30 December 1941
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
03 September 1940
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence.
11 May 1939
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast.
02 September 1955
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength.
07 October 1938
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy.
13 March 1957
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
28 August 1940
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted.
06 December 1945
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career.
31 March 1931
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
28 June 1941
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
31 October 1932
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
01 March 1949
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor.
01 January 1937
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
14 February 1953
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
09 April 1957
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough.
11 September 1950
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery.
31 August 1940
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
01 December 1939
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
21 September 1942
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
05 November 1948
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939.
28 September 1954
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.
11 March 1966
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover £2.5 million hidden in their school.
10 December 1957
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army.
05 October 1993
Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion.
21 December 1956
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs.
05 October 1972
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age.
07 December 1946
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
22 December 1960
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed.
01 December 1972
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an American and a dog.
01 March 1936
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor.
26 August 1947
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt.
19 January 1962
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him.
01 June 1943
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts.
04 July 1946
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J.
01 February 1932
A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
08 March 1950
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions.
02 June 1942
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
23 December 1933
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
18 February 1938
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
01 June 1936
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival.
27 October 1938
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
23 June 1959
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists.
01 October 1931
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
15 December 1936
Instead of accepting a well-to-do suitor, an orphan marries a tramp as a bet, but he turns out to be an English peer on the run for a murder he did not commit.
