Alec McCowen Movies

  • 1957
    The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away

    The One That Got Away

    71957HD

    Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the...

    The One That Got Away
  • 1972
    Travels with My Aunt

    Travels with My Aunt

    Travels with My Aunt

    5.91972HD

    At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him...

    Travels with My Aunt
  • 1978
    Stevie

    Stevie

    Stevie

    71978HD

    For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...

    Stevie
  • 1991
    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    The War That Never Ends

    01991HD

    The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

    The War That Never Ends
  • 1957
    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity

    6.61957HD

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...

    Time Without Pity
  • 1983
    Forever Young

    Forever Young

    Forever Young

    01983HD

    A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what...

    Forever Young
  • 1985
    The Assam Garden

    The Assam Garden

    The Assam Garden

    6.51985HD

    An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

    The Assam Garden
  • 1984
    Squaring the Circle

    Squaring the Circle

    Squaring the Circle

    51984HD

    An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

    Squaring the Circle
  • 1995
    Cruel Train

    Cruel Train

    Cruel Train

    4.51995HD

    In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her...

    Cruel Train
  • 1963
    In the Cool of the Day

    In the Cool of the Day

    In the Cool of the Day

    5.41963HD

    After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague...

    In the Cool of the Day
  • 1957
    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    6.51957HD

    When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

    Town on Trial
  • 1980
    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    6.71980HD

    Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...

    Twelfth Night
  • 1979
    Henry V

    Henry V

    Henry V

    61979HD

    The life of King Henry the Fifth.

    Henry V
  • 1988
    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    4.71988HD

    Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary...

    The Importance of Being Earnest
  • 1956
    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm

    71956HD

    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...

    The Long Arm
  • 1993
    Maria's Child

    Maria's Child

    Maria's Child

    11993HD

    Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the...

    Maria's Child
  • 1982
    A Dedicated Man

    A Dedicated Man

    A Dedicated Man

    01982HD

    Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes...

    A Dedicated Man
  • 1989
    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do

    01989HD

    A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec...

    Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
  • 1989
    Dialogue in the Dark

    Dialogue in the Dark

    Dialogue in the Dark

    01989HD

    A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

    Dialogue in the Dark
  • 1978
    When the Actors Come

    When the Actors Come

    When the Actors Come

    01978HD

    On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary....

    When the Actors Come