Movies by Donald Pleasence

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie

The descendants of Baron Frankenstein return to the family castle to search for the family fortune that is supposed to be hidden there.

Heart of a Child

Heart of a Child

A young boy goes to desperate lengths to save the family dog when his father agrees sell it to the local butcher.

Black Arrow

Black Arrow

In 15th century England, a civil war called Wars of the Roses is being fought between two rival houses who want the throne. Fresh from battle, a knight finds his family dead. He joins the outlaws led by the Black Arrow (Stephan Chase) to seek justice. The noble Black Arrow foils Sir Brackley's (Oliver Reed) plan to kill one ward (Benedict Taylor) and marry the other. This is a classic story by Robert Louis Stevenson turned into film by Disney pictures.

Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Cul-de-sac

Cul-de-sac

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.

Eye of the Devil

Eye of the Devil

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

Lonely Water

Lonely Water

Warning children not to play near 'dark and lonely' water, a horror film style look and voice-over is used in this film to highlight the dangers.

Will Penny

Will Penny

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters. He finds that his cabin in the high mountains has been appropriated by a woman whose guide to Oregon has deserted her and her son. Too ashamed to kick mother and child out just as the bitter winter of the mountains sets in, he agrees to share the cabin until the spring thaw. But it isn't just the snow that slowly thaws; the lonely man and woman soon forget their mutual hostility and start deve...

The Inspector

The Inspector

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Spare the Rod

Spare the Rod

It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?

Gila and Rik

Gila and Rik

The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagonists.

Creature of Comfort

Creature of Comfort

A series of vignettes are tied together by a story involving a carnivorous entity which masquerades as a bedcover. The creature absorbs evil and greedy people into its body, but leaves the innocent unharmed.

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.

The Beachcomber

The Beachcomber

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.