Patrick Allen

All posts that Patrick Allen has been featured in
Brett
Reviews 1971 United Kingdom

A globetrotting journalist with a taste for the high life and a penchant for trouble has a shady past which is now catching up with him, as all the people he has crossed now seek revenge

Crane
Reviews 1963 United Kingdom

Richard Crane gives up the life of a city businessman for one of excitement and adventure in Morocco, buys himself a boat and opens a beachfront bar near Casablanca. He also has a nice little operation dealing in illegal contraband

The Dark Number
Reviews 1966 United Kingdom

A man is called back to Glasgow after his estranged wife goes missing, only to find himself accused of her murder

Errol Flynn Theatre
Reviews 1956 United Kingdom

British-produced anthology series along similar lines to Douglas Fairbanks Presents; both were made to cash in on the growing US and British television markets.

Hard Times
Reviews 1977 United Kingdom

Set in the grim fictional world of Coketown, itself inspired by the industrial north of England in the 19th century, this adaptation of Dickens' novel captures the oppressive spirit of mechanised Victorian society with extraordinary precision

Imposter
Reviews 1962 United Kingdom

The Earth has been at war with the Outspacers for many years. The fate of the planet depends on the success of a vital project headed by one man.

Kidnapped
Reviews 1979 United Kingdom, Germany

When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him, then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies

Liza of Lambeth
Reviews 1965 United Kingdom

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of Liza of Lambeth, based on W. Somerset Maugham's experience of poverty-stricken London slum life while he was an intern at St. Thomas’s Hospital, was an ambitious attempt to bring his uncompromising first novel to television

Out of This World
Reviews 1962 United Kingdom

British TV's first attempt at a science fiction anthology series.