Valentine Dyall Movies

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the...

Showcasing a trip around London in 1964, including the London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, and various markets, monuments, and features.

A fascinating compilation of scenes showing diversity and disparity in 1940s China. The ancient Forbidden City and Great Wall are followed by Shanghai’s metropolitan skyline; primitive farming methods are juxtaposed with mechanised factories; children in rags...

A short film looking at the production of small coins by the UK's Royal Mint.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the...

A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.

An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more em...

A portrait of the English city of York on the occasion of its 1900th anniversary.

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

This documentary seems to be aimed at the same audience who paid to see Mondo Cane. Scenes include the birth of 12 piglets, the removal of a dog's cornea to be transplanted into a human, and a human tooth extraction. Visits to a wax museum, a ride on a roller...

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.

A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical she warns Rennie, but things are not what they seem.

The magnificent castles of the Dordogne province of France and the fairytale countryside surrounding them, narrated by Valentine Dyall.

Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

An early cinema influenced tale of rags to riches by Bob Godfrey. Bruce Lacey stars as the hapless ‘little man’ who longs to stand in the shoes of his hero: conductor Lance Corporal.

Spike stars with Bob Todd, Bill Kerr, Graham Stark, Valentine Dyall, and Sheree Winton & a final TV outing for moustachioed 'token Italian' comedy actor Mario Fabrizi, who died 18 months later, aged just 38.