Muriel Box — Director (13)
Eyewitness (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Eyewitness
director: Muriel Box actor: Donald Sinden / Muriel Pavlow
other title: Testigo en peligro / 目擊者
Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
The Happy Family (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Happy Family
other title: La maison des Lords n'est pas à vendre
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rattle of a Simple Man
director: Muriel Box actor: Harry H. Corbett / Diane Cilento
other title: 楞個叨比 / 楞个叨比
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Accepting a bet from friend Ginger, he accompanies Cyrenne back to her flat, and a boast-worthy night of lust seems to be on the cards. However, drained of beer and bravado, Percy's innocence and vulnerability become all too evident.
Subway in the Sky (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Subway in the Sky
director: Muriel Box actor: 范·约翰逊 / Hildegard Knef
other title: U-Bahn in den Himmel / 空中車廂
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
The Lost People (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Lost People
other title: 同是天涯淪落人
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
The Beachcomber (1954) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Beachcomber
other title: 浪淘沙 / El vagabundo de las islas
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
To Dorothy, a Son (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
To Dorothy, a Son
director: Muriel Box actor: 雪莉·温特斯 / Peggy Cummins
other title: Das Millionenbaby / To Dorothy a Son
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
The Passionate Stranger (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Passionate Stranger
other title: 激情的陌生人 / 假鳳虛凰
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!