Joan Hickson Movies

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...

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

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes...

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing...

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he...

Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent...

Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and...

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.

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....

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.

When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet...

Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but...

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 adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some...

Two male layout artists from a London advertising agency head off on holiday to the Isle of Wight in the hope of finding romance.