Movies starring Percy Herbert

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

97 mins     Action , Drama, War      

The Cockleshell Heroes - drama based on Operation Frankton as a group of volunteers set about destroying a German held shipyard in France...

Quatermass 2 (1957)

85 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi      

It came from out of space, it zombified those it came in to contact with, people in high office attempted to cover things up, one man attempts to get to the bottom of things and putting himself in danger doing so. Those state...

Sea of Sand (1958)

97 mins     Drama, War      

When you watch "Sea of Sand" now you can't but help feel like you've seen it before and that's because the underlying storyline of a dangerous mission has been used over and over again in both movies which came out before and...

No Time to Die (1958)

86 mins     Drama, War      

There are war movies which are about realism and then there are war movies about boys own entertainment and "No Time to Die", which is also known as "Tank Force", is all about the boys own entertainment. And in truth if I had...

Serious Charge (1959)

87 mins     Drama      

It's amusing that "Serious Charge" is promoted as a Cliff Richard movie whilst in fact he only has a very small part in it. In fairness he acts well and sings a few times but "Serious Charge" is really an Anthony Quayle movie...

Tunes of Glory (1960)

107 mins     Drama, Romance      

"Tunes of Glory" is one of those movies which takes something incredibly simple and makes it absolutely fascinating. That something simple is the situation presented to us with Barrow trying to drum an undisciplined bunch of ...

Mysterious Island (1961)

101 mins     Adventure , Family, Sci-Fi      

Younger audiences may not know the name Ray Harryhausen but for those who grew up in the 50s and 60s and to be honest the 70s and 80s will probably recognize it. Why? Well he was the man who created some of the most memorable...

Carry on Jack (1963)

91 mins     Comedy      

"Carry on Jack" isn't the worst "Carry On" movie it's not even a bad "Carry On" movie but it almost doesn't feel like a "Carry On" movie at all. Firstly it actually has a storyline, a comedy one but still a storyline which is...

Guns at Batasi (1964)

103 mins     Drama      

With an image of John Leyton brandishing a machine gun on its cover it would be easy to mistake "Guns at Batasi" as a war movie especially when you see it stars many an actor who appeared in numerous British war movies over t...

Carry on Cowboy (1966)

93 mins     Comedy, Western      

In 1958 there was a comedy western called "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" which was about an English gentleman who rolls into the Wild West and through a matter of mistaken identity and confusion ends up becoming sheriff of a ...

One Million Years B.C. (1966)

100 mins     Adventure , Fantasy      

In "One Million Years B.C." John Richardson stars as Tumak, a prehistoric man banished from his savage tribe to roam the volcanic and dangerous earth. Stumbling exhausted upon a peace loving tribe he learns a lot and falls fo...

Tobruk (1967)

107 mins     Drama, War      

Like with so many war movies from the 50s and 60s "Tobruk" takes something which really happened and then creates a fictional story surrounding it giving us a "men on a mission" set up as we have a group of soldiers on a miss...

Broken Wing (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So here we go with another episode from "Cimarron Strip" which now tends to be broken up and shown as movie shorts here in the UK. And "Broken Wing" comes early on in the first series as Jim Crown has not been Marshal for lon...

Journey to a Hanging (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

I tell you what, if I have been alive in 1967 and of an age to be a fan of TV westerns I might have ended up a little confused by "Cimarron Strip" and episode 1 "Journey to a Hanging" as it just tosses us into a western town ...

The Legend of Jud Starr (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie      

If you go looking for information on "The Legend of Jud Starr" chances are you won't find much as it was in fact part of "Cimarron Strip" a 23 part series of westerns which I believe were mainly stand alone storylines which i...

The Battleground (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So to state the facts quickly; "The Battleground" is actually episode four of "Cimarron Strip" the 60s series which starred Stuart Whitman as lawman Marshal Jim Crown. Now usually I say that these episodes work as stand alone...

The Hunted (1967)

74 mins     TV Movie, Western      

So as I have mentioned before, the 1960s series "Cimarron Strip" is often split up and shown as stand alone movies here in the UK. And like many old TV series they work remarkably well as individual movies as whilst there wer...

The Battle of Bloody Stones (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

For those who don't know "The Battle of Bloody Stones" was part of "Cimarron Strip" a western TV series which ran for 23 episodes during 1967 and 1968. Nowadays these episodes frequently get shown as individual movies here in...

The Roarer (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

It's interesting when considering "The Roarer", which was originally episode 8 of "Cimarron Strip", as whilst the synopsis tells what happens it doesn't really tell you what it is about. So on one hand there is the obvious st...

Till the End of Night (1967)

75 mins     TV Movie, Western      

"Till the End of Night" is a curious episode of "Cimarron Strip" as it was only episode 10 of the series and yet it felt comfortable enough to dispense with the central character of Jim Crown for what feels like most of the m...