Vernon Sewell

Vernon Sewell
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 22 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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The Silver Fleet
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers ? (imdb)
The Blood Beast Terror
A scientist, working with genetics, creates a creature that is capable of transforming back and forth between a giant Death Head moth and a beautiful woman. The creature masquerades as his daughter when she is in her human incarnation and feeds on the blood of her victims when she is in the moth form. (imdb)
The Crimson Cult
When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything. (imdb)
The Black Widow
Murder mystery. Based on the BBC serial "Return from darkness" by Lester Powell. (BFI)
Burke & Hare
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves. (imdb)
Ghost Ship
A luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before. (imdb)
Soho Incident
A Canadian boxer trying to make his way in England is drawn into the criminal activities of the local mob.
Battle of the V-1
Unseen Heroes, along with Missiles from Hell, represented the US titles of the British The Battle of the V1. Set in wartime Poland, the film involves the secret Nazi missile installation at Peenemunde. British guerilla fighter Michael Rennie leads a group of Polish partisans on a mission to destroy the base and cripple the German war effort. The basic storyline is a good one, though it is muddied by several arbitrary plot transitions. (allrovi.com)
A Test for Love
Dramatised documentary on venereal disease. (imdb)
Home and Away
George Knowles (Jack Warner) does the pools every week. One day he is amazed when all his score draws come up and he scoops the jackpot. As the family celebrates his son Johnnie drops a bombshell the coupon is his and his workmate s Sid Jarvis (Harry Fowler). But when Sid s mum finds out about the windfall she decides to kidnap her son in order to cheat Johnnie out of his rightful share of the football pools. (DVD cover)
Frenzy
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife. (imdb)
The Dark Light
The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run from the law. (imdb)
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Ghosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch. (imdb)
House of Mystery
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners. (imdb)
Urge to Kill
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Morgenrot
In 1915, Captain Liers, commander of a submarine is leaving his hometown, where he, his 2nd officer and the radio-operator, who is married there, spend their shore leave. Liers two brothers were already killed in action, so his mother doesn't like the idea of him going back to his sub. Liers thinks his 2nd officer is in love with a local girl, who is really pining for him. On patrol they sink a British armoured cruiser, but while returning to their harbor, they're attacked by a sub trap.
Where There\
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown. IMDB.
The World Owes Me a Living
A pilot loses his memory after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
Strongroom
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom while the crooks escape. Later when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.. (imdb)
Uneasy Terms
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
The Jack of Diamonds
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.
Counterspy
An auditor obtains classified prints/drawings coveted by British govt and others. Villains set traps to retrieve them, capturing him. He's tied to an operating table, facing scalpel torture from the gang leader.