Joan Hickson Movies

A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and...

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his...

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and...

43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet...

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he...

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper...

Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile,...

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's...

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has...

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby...

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while...

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes...

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her...

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's...

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy...