Norman Wooland Movies
British actor Norman Wooland has worked on stage, screen, television, and in radio. He started out in local British theater in the mid-'20s and from there became a regular performer in Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean productions. He continued doing Shakespeare onscreen with Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Richard III. He also appeared in Romeo and Juliet in 1954. During WWII,... (read more) Wooland announced for BBC radio and afterward returned to his previous activities. He has also appeared in numerous television dramas and sit-coms. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
International Velvet
PG 1978
Thirty-four years after the release of National Velvet, MGM came up with this attractively filmed sequel. Tatum O'Neal stars as the niece of Velvet Brown, Elizabeth...
The Projected Man
1967
An experiment gone wrong gives new meaning to the saying "you can't get there from here" in this sci-fi drama. Professor Steiner (Bryant Halliday) is a scientist working...
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
1966
During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of Donegal and his son Red Hugh, his successor. This...
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average...
Saul e David
1964
This biblical epic chronicles the rocky relationship between David the giant-killer and Saul, King of the Israelites who listens to the subversive whispers of his jealous...
Condemned to Life
1962
Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he refused to grant his dying daughter badly needed...
Barabbas
NR 1962
This 1962 Biblical epic was adapted by Christopher Fry from the novel by Pär Lagerkvist. Anthony Quinn stars as Barabbas, the thief who was pardoned in place of Jesus....
The Guns of Navarone
NR 1961
The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put...
Night Train for Inverness
1960
In this crime thriller, a convicted embezzler kidnaps his son after his release from prison, not knowing that the boy is diabetic and will die without insulin injections. The...
An Honourable Murder
1959
Julian Caesar, the board chairman of a large company deals with jealousy and treachery among his underlings as he fights to maintain control and power in this reworking of...
Portrait of a Sinner
1959
After spending most of the 1950s in Europe, writer/director Robert Siodmak filmed his only picture in England: The Rough and the Smooth (US title: Portrait of a Sinner)....
The Bandit of Zhobe
1959
Bandit of Zhobe is what actor Hans Conried once described as a "western in burnoose." Victor Mature plays the title character, one Kasim Khan. Cutting a swath of terror...
The Flesh Is Weak
1957
This once-notorious British expose film now seems as innocent as a community choir rehearsal. Based on the real-life activities of London's Messina gang, The Flesh is Weak...
No Road Back
1957
Produced in England, No Road Back was released worldwide by RKO Radio Pictures. Margaret Rawlings dominates the proceedings as Mrs. Railton, the blind and deaf owner of a...
Guilty?
1956
In this thriller a French woman is arrested for the death of her cruel lover. She certainly had motive as the man was a real snake. She hides him from the Nazis during WW II; he...
Richard III
1955
Laurence Olivier was the director, co-screenwriter (with Alan Dent), and star of this robust adaptation of Shakespeare's drama, which, as Bruce Eder has written,...
The Master Plan
1955
An American army officer is stationed in West Germany and assigned with keeping classified information out of the hands of the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he...
My Teenage Daughter
1955
What was the lady-like Dame Anna Neagle doing in something called Bad Girl -- or, as it was renamed in certain regions, Teenage Bad Girl? In point of fact, the film was...
Romeo and Juliet
1954
Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy. Cast as the "star cross'd lovers" this time...
Background
1953
Background is a tearful flashback drama centering around a dysfunctional family. Valerie Hobson and Philip Friend play a long-married couple on the verge of divorce. As...