Martin Benson Movies

Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess...

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a...

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man.

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely...

A young locksmith becomes involved in crime.

Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate...

World War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so they can steal Japanese codes that are keys to...

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he...

A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go...

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

A reporter feigns death, in order to trap a fugitive and uncover a spy ring.

During WWII, a German garrison is stationed in the small French town of Mereux. French local Maria falls in love with a German captain. However, the...

A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a...

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the...

The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run...