Joan Hickson Movies

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's...

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy...

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....