Ann ToddFilmography

The McGuffin

Actors: Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ritza Brown, Francis Matthews, Phyllis Logan

Synopsis: In this standard suspense thriller, Paul Hatcher (Charles Dance) has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a Read More

Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio

Actors: Patricia Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Anne Baxter, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master of suspense" is shown according to stereotypes Read More

The Human Factor

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Robert Morley, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a trap. Castle (Nicol Williamson) has a desk job in British intelligence. Around him are heavyweights like Col. Daintry (Richard Attenborough), Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Read More

Beware My Brethren

Synopsis: This psychological horror movie revolves around a religious sect, one of whose number roams the streets of London murdering prostitutes, believing that he is on a holy mission. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fiend

Actors: Tony Beckley, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: An emotionally disturbed cult member loses grip on his sanity and sets off on a killing spree. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Ninety Degrees in the Shade

Actors: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Ann Todd, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good for nothing, she remains with him because of the intensity of their physical relationship. Company Read More

Il Figlio del Capitano Blood

Actors: Sean Flynn, Alessandra Panaro, Jose Nieto, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This sequel to the classic adventure, stars Sean Flynn, the son of the swashbuckling actor who played Captain Blood in the original. In this version, the son of the notorious pirate is raised by his mother. She wants him to be a doctor, but unfortunately, the lad has salt-water in his veins and Read More

Scream of Fear

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs, John Serret

Synopsis: The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's something Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Sylvia

Synopsis: Suicidal Sylvia (Ann Todd) desperately wants to be reunited with Peter, the callous fortune-hunter whom she'd married after a whirlwind courtship, and whom she was forced to divorce by her wealthy father John Leeds (John McIntire). Aware of Sylvia's ardor, Peter approaches John and offers to leave Read More

Time Without Pity

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Peter Cushing, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted director was permitted to use his own name on a film. This British-made suspense film was based on a play by Emlyn Williams. Michael Redgrave stars an anguished father whose son (Alec McCowan Read More

The Green Scarf

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Kieron Moore, Richard O'Sullivan

Synopsis: The Green Scarf may be set in France, but its cast, crew, and overall tone is impeccably British. Michael Redgrave, hidden beneath a mattress of whiskers, portrays a French lawyer who takes on a seemingly hopeless case. His client, Kieron Moore, is a blind deaf-mute seaman accused of murder. Moore Read More

Breaking the Sound Barrier

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, Dinah Sheridan

Synopsis: Breaking the Sound Barrier juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story. Ralph Richardson plays a wealthy aircraft manufacturer, stubbornly determined to develop a jet that will travel faster than the speed of sound. Richardson's seemingly cavalier attitude Read More

Madeleine

Actors: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Barbara Everest

Synopsis: David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th century. Told in flashback, the film explains why aristocratic young Scotswoman Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd, then the wife of director Lean) is on trial for murder. The Read More

The Passionate Friends

Actors: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel Dean

Synopsis: David Lean directed this romantic drama, scripted by Eric Ambler from a novel by H.G. Wells. Mary Justin (Ann Todd) is married to wealthy financier Howard Justin (Claude Rains), and while their marriage allows her to lead a comfortable lifestyle, there's little excitement in their relationship. Read More

So Evil My Love

Actors: Ann Todd, Ray Milland, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Moira Lister, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in London. Based on a novel by Joseph Shearing, whose previous Gothic romances included Moss Rose and Blanche Fury, the film stars Ray Milland in his first (but hardly his last) Read More

The Paradine Case

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Ethel Barrymore

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband. British barrister Anthony Keane (played by the aggressively American Gregory Peck) takes on the case-and in the process, falls in love with Anna, despite Read More

Daybreak

Actors: Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby, Bill Owen

Synopsis: Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman who marries Frankie (Ann Todd) after meeting her in a bar. The couple live on a barge and one day Portman returns home unexpectedly to finds Frankie in the arms of handsome longshoreman Olaf (Maxwell Reed Read More

Gaiety George

Actors: Richard Greene, Ann Todd, Peter Graves, Morland Graham, Hazel Court

Synopsis: Though its title suggests that Gaiety George is yet another vehicle for British comedian George Formby, the film is in fact a biopic. Richard Greene plays Irish theatrical impresario George Howard, whose elaborately staged musical entertainments were highlights of the early 20th century. Wounded Read More

Vacation From Marriage

Actors: Robert Donat, Deborah Kerr, Glynis Johns, Ann Todd, Roland Culver

Synopsis: A couple's wartime separation provides an unexpected tonic for their romance in this drama. Robert and Catherine Wilson (Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr) are a married couple whose relationship has hit a dry patch; neither of them have much enthusiasm for each other, and when Robert is drafted into Read More

The Seventh Veil

Actors: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Albert Lieven, Hugh McDermott

Synopsis: Ann Todd stars as an amnesiac mental patient, Francesca Cunningham, who hopes that psychiatrist Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lom) will help her lift the veils of her memory. In a series of flashbacks counterpointed by a lush piano concerto background score, Francesca discovers that she has been a victim of Read More

Dixie Dugan

Actors: James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Charlie Ruggles, Lois Andrews, Helene Reynolds

Synopsis: Lois Andrews, best known in 1943 as the ex-wife of comedian Georgie Jessel, plays the title character in this cinemadaptation of Joseph P. McEvoy's popular comic strip Dixie Dugan. Swept up in the war effort, Dixie gets a job as secretary to government official Roger Hudson (James Ellison). Though Read More

On the Sunny Side

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Katherine Alexander, Donald Douglas

Synopsis: Roddy McDowall stars Hugh Aylesworth, as a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London blitz. Hugh moves into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (Don Douglas and Katherine Alexander), both of whom are charmed by their little guest's impeccable manners. Less charmed is the Read More

Danny Boy

Actors: David Farrar, Wilfred Lawson, Ann Todd, Grant Tyler, John Warwick

Synopsis: A courageous canine, a former mascot for the Marines during WW II, almost ends up destroyed after he is framed by thwarted dognappers who claim that the dog attacked them without provocation. Believing that Danny Boy is suffering from shell-shock and is therefore dangerous, the court send's down a Read More

The Men in Her Life

Actors: Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt, Dean Jagger, Otto Kruger, Eugenie Leontovich, Ann Todd

Synopsis: Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor (Conrad Veidt). Still, Loretta can't help reminiscing on the past loves in her life. She flashes back to her early days as a circus bareback rider and recalls all her former Read More

Ships with Wings

Actors: John Clements, Leslie Banks, Jane Baxter, Ann Todd, Basil Sydney

Synopsis: This stirring wartime morale-booster stars John Clements in a virtual reprise of his "redeemed hero" role in The Four Feathers. Clements is cast as Lieutenant Stacey, a Fleet Arm Pilot whose recklessness causes the death of a fellow airman. Cashiered from the Service, Stacey becomes a mercenary Read More

Granny Get Your Gun

Actors: May Robson, Margot Stevenson, Harry Davenport, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans

Synopsis: Though one would never know it, the bucolic comedy-mystery Granny Get Your Gun was based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's "Perry Mason" novels! In place of lawyer-sleuth Mason, the audience is offered one Minerva "Granny" Hatton (May Robson), sharp-shootin' matriarch of Gold City, Nevada. When her Read More

Little Orvie

Actors: Johnny Sheffield, Ernest Truex, Dorothy Tree, Ann Todd, Emma Dunn

Synopsis: Little Orvie (Johnny Sheffield) is a small boy whose stern father (Ernest Truex) and by-the-book mother (Dorothy Tree) refuse to buy a dog. Orvie befriends a stray mutt, which of course follows him home and just won't leave. Failing to keep the dog's presence a secret, Orvie is ordered to give up Read More

The Tower of London

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter

Synopsis: Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly referred to as a horror film. Yes, a second-billed Boris Karloff does stomp about on a club-foot as the Duke of Glouchester's chief executioner, Mord, but Karloff's presence Read More

Poison Pen

Actors: Flora Robson, Reginald Tate, Ann Todd, Geoffrey Toone, Athole Stewart, Robert Newton

Synopsis: In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning anonymous letters are posted accusing different residents of scandalous acts. The townsfolk are soon so panicked that murder and suicide ensue until the police hire an expert to Read More

South Riding

Actors: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd, John Clements, Milton Rosmer, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who is trying to keep himself solvent by buying into a real estate plan which he doesn't realize is morally suspect. The original British cut of South Riding ran 90 minutes, but Read More

Action for Slander

Actors: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Arthur Margetson, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at cards and turns to the courts to clear his name. At stake, of course, is his good name and the respect of his peers. The film depicts the British class and court systems and Read More

The Squeaker

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni, Robert Newton

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond heist. It also tells the story of a disgraced inspector who is trying to catch the infamous jewel fence known as the "Squeaker" to help clear his name again. ~ Tana Hobart Read More

Things to Come

Actors: Raymond Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart

Synopsis: H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future -- and the screenplay (in conjunction with Lajos Biro) of this epic science fiction tale, but it was producer Alexander Korda who framed the terms on which it is presented Read More

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Actors: Ann Todd, Ralph Richardson, Francis L. Sullivan, Claud Allister

Synopsis: Based on the character created by "Sapper" (Herman Cyril McNeile), Return of Bulldog Drummond was a British production starring Ralph Richardson in the title role. The film is closer to the jingoistic, near-fascist spirit of the original stories than were the Hollywood "Drummond" B-pictures of the Read More

The Water Gypsies

Actors: Ann Todd, Sara Maritza, Richard Bird, Frances Doble

Synopsis: This realistic British drama chronicles the lives of gypsies who live in barges on the Thames. The story begins when a beautiful young gypsy finds herself becoming attracted to a luxurious life after she is hired as a famous artist's mode. To ensure she can stay, the woman makes romantic overtures Read More

These Charming People

Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Nora Swinburne, Ann Todd, Anthony Ireland, C.V. France

Synopsis: In this British drama, a colonel is upset to learn that his daughter is planning to leave her dishwater-dull husband in favor of his male secretary. More trouble ensues when the colonel learns that his secretary is the son of his butler. He decides to end the affair and heads for Paris where he Read More

Keepers of Youth

Synopsis: In this British drama, a new public school encounters trouble when the new sports instructor arrives and begins using his willful personality to manipulate his peers and the headmaster. When he attempts to forcibly foist himself upon the assistant matron, a brave hero intervenes and saves her. Read More

The Ghost Train

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Ann Todd, Donald Calthrop, Cyril Raymond, Allan Jeayes

Synopsis: In this British drama, a superstitious group of people, stranded in a lonely, isolated train station are frightened by the distant rumble and roar of what they think is a "ghost train." But the train is very real; it is only its contents that should frighten them as a detective reveals that it is Read More