Peter Illing

Peter Illing

March 3, 1899 · 127 years old

Known For

10 titles
1
Pursuit of the Graf Spee

Pursuit of the Graf Spee

1956 · 1h 59m · Movie

In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.

6.6
2
The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

1959 · 1h 45m · Movie

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

6.7
3
Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below

1957 · 1h 56m · Movie

A pair of small-time smugglers in the Caribbean have a falling out over their mutual lust for a hot-to-trot floozy who has a weakness for any man who treats her with kindness.

6.0
4
Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction

1956 · 1h 50m · Movie

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

6.4
5
Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

1953 · 1h 34m · Movie

An American reporter stationed in post-war Moscow marries a ballet dancer, but their relationship is threatened by the country's political volatility.

6.3
6
Heat Wave

Heat Wave

1954 · 1h 8m · Movie

An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.

6.0
7
Against the Wind

Against the Wind

1948 · 1h 36m · Movie

A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.

6.3
8
The Devil's Daffodil

The Devil's Daffodil

1961 · 1h 26m · Movie

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

5.6
9
Zarak

Zarak

1956 · 1h 39m · Movie

An Afghan outlaw finally saves a British officer at the cost of his own life.

5.5
10
Friends and Neighbours

Friends and Neighbours

1959 · 1h 19m · Movie

At the height of the Cold War, a working-class British family have to entertain two visitors from Russia resulting in a hilarious clash of cultures.

5.2