Ian Hendry Movies

Joan Collins stars as Fontaine Khaled in this sleek and sleazy sequel to her sister Jackie Collins's The Stud. Fontaine is the owner of a high class London nightclub, but after having an extramarital affair, her marriage falls apart and she stands to lose her nightclub. As a result, she hits the jet-set circuit, plying her allure for erotic dividends. She also involves herself in smuggling and in rigged horse races, trying any means necessary to obtain the funding to rescue her beloved nightclub from foreclosure. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Donna Mills plays the new bride of Ian Hendry. It's customary for bridegrooms to keep a few secrets from their wives -- and Hendry's got a pip. It seems that he has a twin brother -- a homicidal maniac. Or is it the brother who's normal, and the husband who's crazy? And why does Donna Mills always seem to get mixed up in dilemmas like this? Videotaped for British television, the 74-minute Killer with Two Faces debuted in the U.S. on December 3, 1974, as part of the ABC Wide World Mystery late-night anthology. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

This Canadian feature was originally marketed in 1973 as softcore pornography but today would likely be considered a slightly steamy romance. The story concerns the love that develops between a young woman employee and a customer at a very unusual photo shop. The store in question invites men in to take pictures of naked women. When the store owner tries to use his photo shop to blackmail the young lovers, their united front thwarts him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

A previously unknown planet is discovered within our solar system, orbiting on the far side of the sun exactly opposite the position of the Earth, and at precisely the same speed. The European space agency Eurosec, headed by Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark), whose solar probe made the discovery, decides to send a manned mission to investigate, teaming America's top astronaut Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) and British astro-physicist John Kane (Ian Hendry). Their voyage aboard the space vehicle Phoenix is supposed to take six weeks, but when the ship returns to orbit in only three weeks -- ending in a crash of their landing vehicle that kills Kane -- Eurosec can only conclude that Ross has engaged in some sort of sabotage. The astronaut is at a loss as to how they could have done a round-trip in just three weeks, until he makes a startling discovery -- that everything that he sees, from the layout of rooms and buildings to all of the writing around him, is reversed, left to right and right to left. It takes Ross, amid his confusion, to arrive at the only possible conclusion -- that he and Kane did, indeed, journey to the new planet, and that world is a duplicate of Earth (and visa versa) down to the last molecule, a perfect mirror-image; and that world dispatched its own mission, with its own Ross and Kane. He and Webb, and Eurosec, scarcely have time to absorb the implications of this discovery -- if true -- as they prepare for a return flight for Ross, despite enormous risks and some potentially very dangerous unknowns in getting him back to the Phoenix. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide

In this spy adventure taken from the TV series The Saint, suave Simon Templar must stop a Sicilian Mafioso from succeeding on his personal vendetta. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Henchmen of the dictator from an unnamed South American country blackmail Nick Thomas (Ian Hendry) into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerillas. For his compliancy, Nick is supposed to receive money and his freedom. Marina (Graciela Borges) poses as a prostitute in hopes of being thrown in jail to contact political prisoners. Maurice Evans plays Father James Keefe, suspected of being a rebel conspirator. Enrique Sandoval is sufficiently sinister as the corrupt police chief who follows the orders of the ruthless dictator. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's most offbeat and outrageous characters in this situation comedy. British blonde bombshell (Diana Dors) co-stars. Watch for Michael Chaplin (son of Charlie) as a beatnik artist. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

This unsavory British programmer stars Ian Hendry as a hustler who seduces anything in skirts. He launches his sexual adventures by trying to put the make on his married boarding house neighbor June Ritchie. She spurns him until he agrees to find her young daughter, who has wandered off. Hendry moves on to Ritchie's sister Annette Andre, but this affair is squelched by Ritchie, who threatens to kill herself and tell all to her husband. Hendry leaves to find new conquests elsewhere. A novel by Nan Maynard was the launching pad for This Is My Street. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and his faithful assistant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are assigned to investigate the murder of a fashion model. they arrive at the scene of the crime, scouring the dead girl's apartment for clues. On the surface, it appears robbery is the motive, and the detectives find a concealed pistol, a ball point pen, and the girls diary. Her last entry is about a luncheon date, the last place the woman was seen alive. The sleuths must sift through a series of bogus clues and interview unwilling potential suspects before uncovering a ring of drug dealers. The duo systematically eliminate the innocent in their effort to bring the murderer to justice. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

One of the minor comedy-dramas to come out of Britain, this story by director Jay Lewis and scripter Jack Trevor Story is about an unscrupulous salesman, Albert (Ian Hendry), who is beset by a whole series of problems, all of his own making. In order to advance his career, Albert makes a habit of seducing his female customers to better convince them to buy beyond their means, on credit. Even though he has thus far spawned two progeny with this technique he is not about to change his ways. Albert is also cheating on his girlfriend in the process, and more directly just simply cheating his boss, his real estate agent, and a long list of creditors -- not a good way to insure an auspicious future. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

After six weeks of live telecasts, The Avengers went back to videotape with this episode, which was originally broadcast on April 1, 1961. Suspecting that a civil servant has been blackmailed into passing secret information to the enemy, Steed allows himself to be blackmailed by the seedy owner of a Soho nightclub. Ordered to drop off a valuable package at the monkey house in a private zoo, Steed watches with a mixture of amazement and amusement as a monkey picks up the parcel and delivers it to the head of the blackmailers. He is even more amazed (and not amused) when he discovers the identity of the "brains" of the outfit. "Please Don't Feed the Animals" was written by Dennis Spooner. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Although Patrick Macnee was already comfortably installed as erudite, bowler-hatted British secret agent John Steed, the first season of The Avengers bore but scant resemblance to the later internationally popular version teaming Macnee with Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson. For one thing, the season's quota of 26 hour-long episodes were originally telecast live or on videotape rather than being filmed. For another, the series was shot in black-and-white rather than color, and its action was generally confined within the walls of the ITV sound stages. Also, Steed's partner in espionage was not an attractive young woman but instead a handsome young man, Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) -- though Ingrid Hafner made sporadic appearances as operative Carol Wilson. Finally, during the first episode the characters played by Patrick Macnee and Ian Hendry were genuine "avengers," hoping to make a gang of drug dealers pay the ultimate price for the murder of Dr. Keel's fiancée -- after which, Keel agreed to team up with Steed to bring a wide variety of international criminals to heel, thus avenging the deaths of several more innocents. (In most of the later seasons, the series' title generally had nothing to do with the action.) Only one of the first nine "live" episodes of The Avengers is known to exist. Only one and a half of the remaining videotaped episodes survive on kinescope. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide