Most Popular Wendy Hiller Trailers
Total trailers found: 41
01 June 1957
A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way.
24 December 1983
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago.
20 October 1981
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old.
09 October 1980
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak.
01 January 1989
A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.
22 November 1974
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
01 June 1983
An aging school teacher remembers times gone by and thinks about her own past.
22 December 1976
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
01 December 1969
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
23 December 1987
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
09 December 1986
his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband.
13 December 1966
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
01 January 1981
Adaptation from Oscar Wilde's play.
08 May 1957
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama.
10 December 1978
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people.
19 May 1987
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College.
08 February 1978
An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now it seems they will be homeless.
18 December 1958
The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel.
08 May 1980
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
04 December 1982
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
11 June 1953
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son.
01 November 1978
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune.
01 January 1991
Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Sir Sydney Cockerell (museum curator), and George Bernard Shaw (playwright/critic).
03 May 1987
A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who seems to be courting her.
14 May 1941
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army.
01 April 1960
The 152nd issue of the long running industry cinemagazine. Includes the articles: '35 Years After', 'Stormy Genius' ( documenting the filming of 'Sons and Lovers'), 'East Wemyss' and 'Lot 150'.
15 November 1951
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges.
06 October 1938
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
16 November 1945
Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist.
12 February 1982
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
23 June 1960
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
01 January 1983
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
31 July 1963
Julian Berniers returns from Illinois with his young bride Lily Prine to the family in New Orleans. His spinster sisters Carrie and Anna welcome the couple, who arrive with expensive gifts.
01 January 1957
George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.
24 January 1993
A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Grafin von Holzendorf, has agreed to be interviewed.
22 February 1994
Nancy Franklin was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see the places where it was made and to find out more about the people who made it.
02 January 1951
Documentary arguing the case for equal pay for women. Women are seen employed in their homes, in factories, teaching, nursing, in politics and in the professions.
26 September 1972
The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.
10 May 1981
Two British women claim to have been thrown into a time warp where they saw Marie Antoinette as they were strolling through the gardens at Versailles Palace in France.
30 May 1938
Working class family win £5oo and move to the country. They quickly run into the snooty upper class establishment who resent the newcomers.
11 February 1968
Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov.