British Box Office 1954

 

Big British hits of the Year:

1) Doctor in the House

2) Trouble in Store

3) The Bells of St Trinians

This year kicked off three franchises that would power through the 50s and 60s: the Doctor series, the St Trinians series, and the Norman Wisdom series (I count that as a franchise).

A golden year for popular British film.

The Other Money Makers list is interesting. The British films on it were:

* Dance Little Lady (a forgotten Val Guest film with Mandy Miller and Terence Morgan - I had never heard of it)

* Duel in the Jungle (basically American adventure tale)

* Father Brown (Alec Guiness as the crime solving man of God... why no franchise?)

*For Better, for Worse (hideous newly wed Dirk Bogarde comedy)

* The Green Scarf (random mystery)

* Happy Ever After (musical with David Niven)

*Hell Below Zero (basically American adventure tale with Alan Ladd)

*His Majesty O'Keefe (lots of Aussies in that - shot on Fiji)

*Hobson's Choice (David Lean, Laughton, Mills)

*The Kidnappers

*Knights of the Round Table

*The Maggie (late Ealing comedy I had heard was a flop)

*The Purple Plain

*Rob Roy

*The Seekers ( Glynis Johns in New Zealand)

*The Sleeping Tiger

*Trouble in the Glen (so this did okay!)

* The Weak and the Wicked

It's an interesting array of movies. Lots of adventure tales shot here. Comedies very big. Some war movies. Thrillers.