Joan Hickson Movies

A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-law, and an amiable but uncomprehending husband in...

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences

After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the...

A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him...

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and...

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help...