Susan Shaw Movies
Onetime model Susan Shaw was groomed for movie stardom by the British Rank Organisation. Susan was seen to good advantage in such crowd-pleasers as Holiday Camp (1947), My Brother's Keeper (1948), and Quartet (1949), reaching a popularity peak around 1950. Thereafter, her film career slowly dwindled into decorative parts in lower-case productions. It is an apt comment on the vagaries... (read more) of fate to note that Shaw is now best known for her worst movie, Fire Maidens From Outer Space (1955). Married to actor Albert Lieven from 1949 through 1953, her second of three husbands was actor Bonar Colleano; their son, also an actor, was Mark Colleano. Susan Shaw's credits should not be confused with those of the same-named Hollywood starlet of the 1970s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
The Switch
1963
The villains in the British The Switch are members of a wristwatch-smuggling gang. Poor Zena Marshall knows too much, so the gangs abducts her. Stalwart customs official...
Stranglehold
1962
A movie star is typecast as a ruthless gangster. His troubles begin when he gets reality confused with his job and becomes deluded into believing that he really is a mobster. ~...
The Big Day
1960
Veteran British "heavy" Donald Pleasence has the 1960 programmer The Big Day all to himself. Pleasence plays a businessman who has overextended himself financially, and...
Carry On Nurse
1959
The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce. There's not much of a plot, but plenty of nudging and...
The Diplomatic Corpse
1958
The Diplomatic Corpse has been rendered lifeless by a couple of foreign diplomats. London reporter Robin Phillips suspects much, but can prove little. Going beyond the law,...
Chain of Events
1958
A little white lie sets off a harrowing series of increasingly catastrophic events in this thriller. The trouble begins when a bank clerk tells a fib to avoid paying his bus fare....
Davy
1958
Corpulent "Goon Show" regular Harry Secombe plays the title role in the British comedy Davy. Set in the rarefied world of the British music halls, the film focuses in on the...
Time Is My Enemy
1957
In this crime drama a murderer covers his tracks by framing his wife. He does this by posing as his victim and forcing his wife to shoot him (with a blank-filled gun). The woman...
Fire Maidens from Outer Space
1956
This silly British-made space opera finds distant ancestors of the lost civilization of Atlantis -- all of them nubile young ladies, of course, and starved for male company --...
Stock Car
1955
The fast-paced world of stock-car racing provides the backdrop of this British adventure. The story centers on Katie Glebe as she attempts to save her father's failing garage...
Blonde Blackmailer
1955
In this drama, a convicted killer serves his time and after his release sets off in search of those who framed him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
The Good Die Young
1954
The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery. American ex-GI Joe (Richard Basehart) hopes to use his...
The Large Rope
1953
In this drama, an ex-con, who served time for a crime he did not commit, attempts to return to his home village and lead a peaceful, hard working life. Unfortunately, a murder...
Small Town Story
1953
A British football team fights to win a spot on the third division. If they succeed, they will win a tidy fortune. Unfortunately, things look bleak until Canadian ex-soldier Bob...
The Intruder
1953
Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is compounded when the intruder turns out to be one of the...
A Killer Walks
1952
In this murder mystery, the trouble begins when one of two brothers kills his own grandmother so he can steal her fortune and use it to impress a sophisticated city girl. To make...
Wide Boy
1952
In this crime drama, a small-time thief steals so he can provide his material girl with the luxuries she craves. One day he steals a wallet and ends up involved in a blackmail...
Pool of London
1951
Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast of Pool of London. Ever his brass, cheeky self,...
There Is Another Sun
1951
Star-in-the-making Laurence Harvey receives third billing in the British There is Another Sun. Set in the rarefied world of fairground auto racing, the film stars Susan...
The Woman in Question
1950
The alternate title to the British The Woman in Question is Five Angles on Murder. That pretty much sums up the tenor of this investigatory drama, wherein an enigmatic...