Eric Portman Movies

A Canterbury Tale

76/100

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

The Colditz Story

71/100

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle.

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

71/100

When Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.

The Naked Edge

67/100

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.

Dear Murderer

69/100

When successful business man Lee Warren suspects his wife is having an affair, he sets out find her lover, kill him, and make it look like suicide. Complications set in, when he finds out ... See full summary »

Corridor of Mirrors

67/100

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

A Voice in the Night

70/100

The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. The young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a ... See full summary »

The Deep Blue Sea

69/100

A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

59/100

In 1820's rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage by a villainous Squire, and when she becomes pregnant, and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.

The Spider and the Fly

70/100

A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

Great Day

64/100

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Daybreak

67/100

A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his ... See full summary »

The Golden Mask

52/100

A British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope of stealing the precious relic.

The Good Companions

62/100

A touring variety troupe, the "Dinky Doos" are in financial trouble. An encounter with three strangers - Inigo Jollifant (a romantic, song-writing ex-schoolmaster), Miss Trant (a ... See full summary »

Cairo Road

60/100

The never-ending struggle of an Egyptian Narcotics Bureau unit. This time around,the murder of a rich Arab named Bashiri leads colonel Yussef Bey and his right-hand man Lieutenant Mourad to... See full summary »

West 11

67/100

This Michael Winner directed film looks into life at Notting Hill, London, then a seedy slum. A down on his luck Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) is recruited into crime by Richard Dyce (Eric Portman).

The Mark of Cain

62/100

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.

Hyde Park Corner

56/100

In this British farce, a legendary duel is destined to be repeated in an old house at Hyde Park Corner when the two descendants of the original combatants mysteriously reconvene. Based on Walter Hackett's play.

Child in the House

72/100

Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. Her father, an often absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret one day.

Men of Two Worlds

57/100

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land.

The Cardinal

60/100

Squadron Leader X

79/100

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British ... See full summary »

Escape to Danger

35/100

The Blind Goddess

64/100

Lord Brasted is in charge of a postwar fund for displaced persons. His secretary, Derek Waterhouse,...

His Excellency

56/100

The post-war Labour government appoints an ex-docker as Governor of a Mediterranean colony.