Alec McCowen Movies

  • 1957
    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    Town on Trial

    6.71957HD

    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
  • 1995
    Cruel Train

    Cruel Train

    Cruel Train

    4.51995HD

    In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he...

    Cruel Train
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1955
    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    The Deep Blue Sea

    5.21955HD

    A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can...

    The Deep Blue Sea
  • 1959
    The Doctor's Dilemma

    The Doctor's Dilemma

    The Doctor's Dilemma

    6.11959HD

    Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.

    The Doctor's Dilemma
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1957
    Rope

    Rope

    Rope

    01957HD

    British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.

    Rope
  • 1979
    Henry V

    Henry V

    Henry V

    61979HD

    The life of King Henry the Fifth.

    Henry V
  • 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
  • 1976
    Private Lives

    Private Lives

    Private Lives

    6.51976HD

    Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked...

    Private Lives
  • 1957
    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    The Good Companions

    01957HD

    The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

    The Good Companions
  • 1983
    The Secret Adversary

    The Secret Adversary

    The Secret Adversary

    6.81983HD

    After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...

    The Secret Adversary
  • 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
  • 1972
    Triple Exposure

    Triple Exposure

    Triple Exposure

    01972HD

    Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each...

    Triple Exposure
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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