Cecil ParkerFilmography

Oh! What a Lovely War

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Ian Holm

Synopsis: Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by Joan Littlewood. The tragedy of World War I is redefined in bawdy music-hall terms, beginning with a verbal free-for-all involving the Crowned Heads of Europe. The war is presented Read More

Circus of Fear

Actors: Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace murder mystery this chiller centers on a Scotland Yard investigation of a series of puzzling deaths plaguing a traveling circus and the hunt for loot stolen from an armored car robbery. Suspects include the mask-wearing and disfigured lion tamer, a vengeful ringmaster, an Read More

Avengers: The 50,000 Pound Breakfast

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: X-rays of a car crash victim reveal that the man had a stomach full of valuable diamonds. Naturally, Steed and Emma are called in to investigate. They follow clues all the way to the prestigious Litoff Organization, a group of financiers with an agenda all their own. First telecast in England on Read More

The Magnificent Two

Actors: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Margit Saad, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: British comedy duo Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise make the movie from the small screen to the silver screen with this zany tale of two traveling salesmen swept up in a South American revolution. Eric and Ernie are eager to test their salesmen skills in a new setting, but upon arriving in South Read More

A Man Could Get Killed

Actors: James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Robert Coote

Synopsis: This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the violent and baffling world of international espionage. When American businessman William Beddoes (James Garner) is traveling in Lisbon, he's mistaken for an English spy Read More

A Study in Terror

Actors: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley

Synopsis: In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack the Ripper in this well-made and exciting mystery produced, written and directed by James Hill. In this adaptation of the popular character created by Sir Arthur Conan Read More

Lady L

Actors: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto (Peter Ustinov Read More

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Actors: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Leo McKern, Lilli Palmer, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This rambunctious filmization of Daniel Defoe's "naughty" novel stars Novak as a poverty-stricken 18th century damsel who rises to the top of society surrendering her virtue--time Read More

The Comedy Man

Actors: Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington

Synopsis: Kenneth More is The Comedy Man in this cinemazation of Douglas Hayes' novel. Having spent most of his life playing the provinces in obscurity, More gives the London TV scene a try. He fails at attaining stardom on his own terms, but becomes a celebrity on TV commercials. After basking in fame for Read More

Guns at Batasi

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow

Synopsis: Richard Attenborough stars as a stalwart sergeant-major, stationed in British colony in Africa. When the colony declares its independence, Attenborough is assigned to keep the peace during the governmental transition. Trouble begins when an insurgent African officer (Errol John) attempts to Read More

Carry on Jack

Actors: Kenny Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Carry on Venus was originally titled Carry On Jack. A parody of seafaring epics, this one takes place in 1805 (give or take a few years). Kenneth Williams stars as Captain Fearless, doing battle against pirates, mutineers and the Spanish Armada (in 1805?) The recently released Marlon Brando Read More

The Swingin' Maiden

Heavens Above!

Actors: Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also Read More

The Amorous Mr. Prawn

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty

Synopsis: Based on Anthony Kimmins' stage success The Amorous Prawn, this British light comedy stars Joan Greenwood as the wife of an Army general (Cecil Parker). Having fallen upon hard times, the wife hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting Read More

The Iron Maiden

Actors: Michael Craig, Anne Helm, Jeff Donnell, Alan Hale, Jr., Noel Purcell

Synopsis: Not a medieval epic, The Iron Maiden is a contemporary comedy. Nor is the title object a torture device; instead, it's new sort of steam roller. The hero (Michael Craig) is an aircraft designer who neglects his work because of his fondness for machine engines. The film's climax is a steamroller Read More

The Brain

Synopsis: This third film version of the Curt Siodmak scare piece Donovan's Brain stars Peter Van Eyck as an overly dedicated scientist. When a powerful and ruthless financier dies in a plane crash, Van Eyck keeps the tycoon's brain alive in his laboratory. Gradually, the brain takes over the doctor's mind Read More

Petticoat Pirates

Actors: Charles Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner, Maxine Audley

Synopsis: Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the "feminist" films of the 1970s, the plot concerns a group of female officers in the British Navy. Angered by the sexism inherent in the Admiralty, the uniformed ladies stage a Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I Spy

Synopsis: The wife of Captain Morgan (William Kendall) is missing, and private detective Henry Frute (Eric Barker) is hired to find her. Morgan suspects that his wife has been unfaithful, and that she has run off with her lover. Actually, he turns out to be half right; finally catching up with Mrs. Morgan (Kay Walsh Read More

Operation Snafu

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King

Synopsis: Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more Read More

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Actors: Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Irene Handl, Eric Barker

Synopsis: One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes terribles have just burnt down the school and Read More

Sotto Dieci Bandiere

Actors: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German surface raider, which sails under friendly flags until moving in for the kill. Since so many nationalities were involved in making this film (both before and behind the Read More

Follow That Horse!

Actors: David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Mary Peach, Dora Bryan

Synopsis: This romp through the comedic world of spy-chase stories starts with Dick Lanchester (David Tomlinson), a less-than-brilliant British diplomat, taking an atomic scientist to a NATO meeting. A simple escort service turns into disaster when the so-called scientist steals major secrets and escapes Read More

The Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis: None of the many cinemadaptations of Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson are as relentlessly enjoyable as this 1960 Disney feature. The film wastes no time getting down to business, with the shipwreck of the Robinson family occurring as the credits flash across the screen. Fashioning a raft Read More

A French Mistress

Actors: Cecil Parker, Ian Bannen, Agnes Laurent, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John producer) released this standard comedic fare with a dash of spice. Set in the traditional British boys' school, the farce deals with the reactions of the young lads and their Read More

Disneyland: Escape to Paradise and Water Birds

Actors: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa

Synopsis: The first portion of this Walt Disney Presents episode is a behind-the-scenes preview of the upcoming Disney theatrical feature Swiss Family Robinson. Hosted by three of the film's stars, John Mills, Dorothy McGuire and Janet Munro, the segment details the difficulties encountered by the Read More

The Navy Lark

Actors: Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Elvi Hale, Nicholas Phipps

Synopsis: Director Gordon Parry's last two films were the 1959 Friends and Neighbors and this so-so, slapstick comedy about a zany naval base on an island just off the southern coast of Britain. Not having a whole lot to do, the klutzy commander (Cecil Parker), a womanizing second officer (Leslie Phillips) Read More

Make Mine a Double

Synopsis: In this British comedy, two look-a-likes, an airman and a secret agent, find double trouble when they are assigned a top-secret task by their government. The airman is to impersonate the agent to confuse the Nazis while the real agent sneaks into France to investigate the new buzz bombs. Read More

Night We Dropped a Clanger

Actors: Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Leo Franklyn

Synopsis: Perhaps in an earlier era or in some remote village, this comedy would work, but this story about two mixed-up identities during World War II is comedically outdated. Brian Rix has the dual role of an Air Force officer who is going on an important military mission to France. The brass decide to Read More

The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Richard Harris, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going in this drama about the wreck of the Mary Deare. John Sands (Charleton Heston) is the captain of a salvage ship that is almost rammed by the apparently abandoned Mary Read More

I Was Monty's Double

Actors: John Mills, Cecil Parker, Patrick Allen, M.E. Clifton-James, Patrick Holt, Michael Hordern, Marius Goring

Synopsis: If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor M.E. Clifton James plays himself, a British stock-company actor who becomes an unsung hero during World War II. It seems that James, serving his country as a junior officer, is the exact Read More

Happy Is the Bride

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Janette Scott, Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: This soft-pedalled British comedy was adapted from Quiet Wedding, a play by Esther McCracken that had previous been filmed in 1940. On the eve of their nuptials, David (Ian Carmichael) and Janet (Janette Scott) have a serious falling out. It isn't really the couple's fault, however; as usual Read More

Indiscreet

Actors: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff

Synopsis: Adapted by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir, Indiscreet stars Ingrid Bergman as a wealthy actress and Cary Grant as an international financial wizard. While Grant is visiting London, Bergman's sister Phyllis Calvert and brother-in-law Cecil Parker introduce Grant to Bergman. Because he feels Read More

A Tale of Two Cities

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Marie Versini, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke, the writer of such fifties British comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob and Passport to Pimlico, dips his pen into a more stately inkwell in this stilted adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dirk Bogarde takes the lead role of worn-down Read More

True As a Turtle

Actors: John Gregson, June Thorburn, Cecil Parker, Elvi Hale

Synopsis: True as a Turtle isn't nearly as funny as its title, but it tries hard to please. Most of the action takes place aboard a yacht called the Turtle, owned by crusty Dudley (Cecil Parker). The yachtsman's guests are newlywed Tony (John Gregson) and his chronically seasick bride Jane (June Thorburn). Read More

The Admirable Crichton

Actors: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton. In this Technicolor adaptation of James M. Barrie's oft-filmed stage play, Kenneth More stars as Crichton, the super-efficient butler for a family of haughty British aristocrats. Though More is true master of the Read More

The Court Jester

Actors: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Danny Kaye spoofs medieval swashbucklers in this classic musical comedy. While the infant King of England awaits his rightful place as leader of the British Empire, his rule is usurped by Roderick (Cecil Parker), an evil pretender to the throne. Brave rebel leader The Black Fox (Edward Ashley) Read More

23 Paces to Baker Street

Actors: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a kidnapping plot but neither his friends nor the authorities believe him, chalking up his story as the product of a writer's imagination. Disgruntled, Johnson vows to scuttle the Read More

It's Great to Be Young

Actors: John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew, Elizabeth Kentish, Mona Washbourne, Carole Shelley

Synopsis: It's Great to Be Young stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not Read More

The Constant Husband

Actors: Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better off had his memory remained lost: Llewellyn Read More

The Ladykillers

Actors: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Danny Green

Synopsis: Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of Read More

For Better for Worse

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Susan Stephen, Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young star Dirk Bogarde and strangely forgotten newcomer Susan Stephen star as a young married couple who struggle to make things run smoothly in their first year together. The Read More

The Detective

Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character created by novelist G.K. Chesterton. When Father Brown is entrusted with transporting a valuable religious artifact from London to Rome, he's understandably upset when it's Read More

Isn't Life Wonderful

Actors: Cecil Parker, Eileen Herlie, Donald Wolfit, Peter Asher

Synopsis: No relation to the 1924 D. W. Griffith film of the same name, Isn't Life Wonderful! is a bucolic British comedy which goes for quiet chuckles rather than bellylaughs. Set in a sleepy rural village in the early 1900s, the film centers around the efforts to transform sorry old sot Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit Read More

His Excellency

Actors: Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Helen Cherry, Susan Stephen, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an industrial island that finds itself further embroiled in a terrible fight over low pay and terrible working conditions. A strike ensues, but the new governor remembers what it Read More

I Believe in You

Actors: Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins, George Relph

Synopsis: Inspired by the recent success of The Blue Lamp, I Believe in You is a multiplotted British drama about parole officers. Several short character vignettes pass our way as the film studies the various methods employed by the officers in dealing with their charges. The film settles upon Cecil Read More

Tony Draws a Horse

Actors: Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond, Barbara Murray, Mervyn Johns

Synopsis: This lightweight British satire on Freudianism stars Cecil Parker as a prominent doctor and Anne Crawford as his psychiatrist wife. Parker and Crawford are taken aback when their innocent young son Anthony Lang draws a picture of a horse, with all necessary reproductive equipment lovingly Read More

The Man in the White Suit

Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

Under Capricorn

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Sr., Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Returning to his old Elstree Studios headquarters in England, Alfred Hitchcock did his best with Hume Cronyn's adaptation of the James Bridie novel Under Capricorn. Costume drama was never Hitchcock's forte, as proven by his disappointing Jamaica Inn (1939), but Capricorn does have its moments. Read More

The Chiltern Hundreds

Actors: Cecil Parker, A.E. Matthews, David Tomlinson, Lana Morris

Synopsis: By 1949, British stage and film star A.E. Matthews was more widely celebrated for his advanced age (eighty) than his considerable thespian achievements. In The Amazing Mr. Beecham (original British title: The Chiltern Hundreds), Matthews goes into his well-calculated "doddering aristocrat" routine Read More

The First Gentleman

Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins, Cecil Parker, Ronald Squire, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre Aumont heads the largely British cast of Affairs of a Rogue. Set in the years just following the Napoleonic wars, the film casts Aumont as Leopold, a poverty-stricken German prince. Leopold casts his romantic spell upon Charlotte (Joan Hopkins), the daughter of England's Prince Regent (Cecil Parker Read More

The Weaker Sex

Actors: Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris

Synopsis: In this ironically titled British WW II drama, a widowed housewife provides housing for two navy men while her daughters serve as Wrens and her son serves in the military. The woman and one of the daughters end up falling for the sailors and marrying them. Following D-Day and the end of the war Read More

The Woman in the Hall

Actors: Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Edward Underdown

Synopsis: A mother provides a lousy example for her daughter in this gritty, realistic drama. The mother is a mistress of manipulating the sympathies of others for her own gain. Rather than working, she solicits the sympathy of others. Like her mother, the daughter is equally manipulative and ends up with a Read More

Quartet

Actors: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Dirk Bogarde, Ian Fleming, George Cole, Jack Raine, Cecil Parker, Angela Baddeley

Synopsis: The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful Read More

The Magic Bow

Actors: Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini. The fact that the illusion explodes whenever he opens his mouth mattered not at all to Granger's legions of British female fans. Luckily for the screenwriters, Paganini was Read More

Hungry Hill

Actors: Eileen Crowe, Michael Denison, Michael Golden, Eileen Herlie, Shamus Locke

Synopsis: The misery caused by a long-term feud between two Irish families provides the framework in this drama based on a book by Daphne du Maurier. The saga begins in 1840 as the father of the Donovan clan rebels against the Brodrick family, the owners of the copper mine located on what was formerly Read More

Captain Boycott

Actors: Eddie Byrne, Maureen Delaney, Maurice Denham, Ian Fleming, Liam Gaffney

Synopsis: Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of Erne. The impoverished farmers conspire to banish him from the area. When Boycott learns of this, he tries Read More

Caesar and Cleopatra

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration Read More

The Weaker Sex

Synopsis: In this British WW II drama, a British housewife proves herself to be as patriotic and courageous as any soldier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Dangerous Moonlight

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, Derrick de Marney, Kenneth Kent, Cecil Parker, Percy Parsons

Synopsis: Dangerous Moonlight was the original British title for the wartime drama Suicide Squadron. Anton Walbrook plays a famed Polish composer who refuses to leave his homeland when the Nazis march in. His friends literally have to hoodwink him into leaving so that he will avoid extermination. Still Read More

The Saint's Vacation

Actors: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The Saint's Vacation was filmed in London by RKO Radio's British division. This time Hugh Sinclair is cast as Leslie Charteris' suave soldier of fortune Simon Templar, aka The Saint. Most of the story takes place in Switzerland (or a reasonable facsimile), with Templar interrupting his holiday to Read More

Two for Danger

Actors: Barry Barnes, Greta Gynt, Gordon McLeod, Ian MacLean

Synopsis: The Two For Danger in this British comedy-mystery are lawyer Tony Grigson (Barry K. Barnes) and art museum curator Diana (Greta Gynt). The son of a police commissioner, Grigson decides to play detective himself to find out who's been pilfering valuable paintings from the collection under Diana's Read More

Under Your Hat

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Austin Trevor, Leonora Corbett, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: In this lively spy caper, the male half of a married song-and-dance duo moonlights as a government spy. The trouble begins when he is assigned to monitor a sexy foreign spy, something he must keep from his wife, who soon gets jealous when she sees the two constantly together. To monitor her own Read More

The Spider

Actors: Derrick de Marney, Diana Churchill, Jean Gillie, Cecil Parker, Frank Cellier

Synopsis: In this thriller, a corrupt talent agent's illegal actions are discovered by his partner. To silence him, the agent kills the partner. Unfortunately, the killing is witnessed by a young woman. Now the agent is after her. He makes one attempt but fails. Fortunately for him, the encounter rendered Read More

She Couldn't Say No

Sons of the Sea

Actors: Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Simon Lack, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Originally released in England by British Consolidated, Sons of the Sea was the last film to be distributed in America by Grand National Pictures. Generally cast in villainous roles, Leslie Banks plays the film's true-blue hero Captain Hyde. Alas, Hyde's young son Philip (Simon Lack), though a Read More

The Stars Look Down

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, Edward Rigby

Synopsis: A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far more realistically depicted than the back-lot Welsh village in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. The parents of Michael Redgrave have labored long and hard so that their Read More

The Two of Us

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: In this comedy, an impoverished bumbler becomes a waiter at a fancy party and finds himself mistaken for one of the wealthy guests by another drunken guest. Soon he is mingling with the elite and meets a beautiful girl. He decides to make the illusion real and after the party goes to his banker Read More

The Citadel

Actors: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to treating the residents of a poverty-stricken Welsh mining community. Tuberculosis runs rampant in the village, and Manson is determined to help stem its tide and bring good Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca Read More

Housemaster

Actors: Otto Kruger, Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes, Joyce Barbour, Renee Ray

Synopsis: American stage and film star Otto Kruger heads the cast of the above-average British comedy The Housemaster. Kruger, in the title role, presides benevolently over the students of a private boys' school. A new headmaster, who is as rigid and rule-bound as Kruger is kind and understanding, gives the Read More

Old Iron

Synopsis: In this drama the trouble begins when a young woman marries and her ruthless, but wealthy father, a shipping magnate, cuts her off because he disapproves of the match. When his son marries, the father throws the bride's father off his board of directors. The enraged son, roars off in his car and Read More

Dark Journey

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Bushell, Margery Pickard

Synopsis: The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced Read More

Storm in a Teacup

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison's filmographies. Set in an old-fashioned Scottish town, Storm in a Teacup features Rex Harrison as an English newpaper reporter who has traveled north Read More

Dishonor Bright

Actors: Tom Walls, Eugene Pallette, Betty Stockfeld, Diana Churchill, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Dishonor Bright draws upon the talents of two master farceurs from Britain's Aldwych Theatre, Tom Walls (star-director) and Ben Travers (screenwriter). A correspondent in a bitter divorce case, Stephen Champion (Walls), ends up marrying the defendant, Ivy Lamb (Dinah Churchill), though he still Read More

The Man Who Changed His Mind

Actors: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop

Synopsis: Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who loves her, and she goes to work for the reclusive Dr. Laurience (Boris Karloff), whom the scientific world regards as a crackpot. At Laurience's remote estate, she's greeted Read More

Men of Yesterday

Synopsis: In this anti-war drama, set in England during its Depression, a demobilized major from WW I, tries to a veteran's reunion that is to include soldiers from all sides of the conflict. To do this, the major loses everything to no avail. Just as the despairing pacifist is about to end his life, an old Read More

Jack of All Trades

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Athole Stewart, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a long spell of unemployment by taking a waiter's job at a fancy society reception. Because he's decked out in a tuxedo, Jack is assumed to be one of the guests, and before Read More

Her Last Affaire

Actors: Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Francis L. Sullivan, Sophie Stewart, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches the sexes of its leading characters so that the protagonist is now a male, Alan Heriot (Hugh Williams). Heriot is the secretary to Sir Julian Weyre (Francis L. Sullivan) a Read More

Me and Marlborough

Actors: Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry Mackay, Alfred Drayton, Iris Ashley

Synopsis: In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband a shilling. He accepts it, but discovers that it is really the Queen's bounty for enlistment and that the kindly man is the local recruiting officer. The bride decides she Read More

Foreign Affairs

Actors: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Robertson Hare, Norma Varden, Marie Lohr

Synopsis: In this British comedy, an aging aristocrat with a gambling addiction borrows money from a relative and ends up winning big at the track. Unfortunately he quickly loses it all in Nice. Impoverished once again, he encounters another loser. Together the two get in cahoots with a diamond thief Read More

Crime Unlimited

Dirty Work

Actors: Ralph Lynn, Gordon Harker, Robertson Hare

Synopsis: Although this Laurel and Hardy short is quite funny, it's often neglected. The boys, playing chimney sweeps, don't appear right away -- first the stage is set in the laboratory of a mad scientist, Professor Noodle (Lucien Littlefield). He has been working intensely for the past 20 years to create Read More

Little Friend

Actors: Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam, Lydia Sherwood, Lewis Casson, Arthur Margetson, Jean Cadell

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old British actress Nova Pilbeam (best known for her work in Hitchcock's Man Who Knew too Much and Young and Innocent) plays the title role in Little Friend. When her parents (Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood) decide to divorce, poor Felicity Hughes (Pilbeam) seeks out a way to bring Read More

The Blue Squadron

Synopsis: The Blue Squadron is commandeered by Esmond Knight in this British adventure film. Knight conducts a friendly rivalry with his Italian counterpart John Stuart over the affections of winsome Greta Hansen. Stuart proves that there's no hard feelings by saving Knight's life in the snowy peaks of the Read More

Nine Forty Five

Synopsis: The corpse of a hated man is discovered in this mystery. The police inspector and investigating doctor found their work hindered by three people who confess to killing him. The trouble is, none of them did. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Silver Spoon

Lady in Danger

Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Tom Walls

Synopsis: Tom Walls is both star and director of the airy comedy-melodrama Lady in Danger. Marooned in the revolution-torn kingdom of Ardenburg, British businessman Richard Dexter (Tom Walls) is requested by the leader of the insurgents to safely escort the country's beloved queen (Yvonne Arnaud) to Read More

The Cuckoo in the Nest

Synopsis: In this film, an inn is filled to capacity and a couple must spend the night together in a room. The problem is that both of them are married to other people; before that, they had been engaged to each other. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Golden Cage

Synopsis: In this romance, a golddigger jilts her poorer true love in favor of a wealthy man whom she marries. The poor man is broken-hearted, but soon involves himself with another. His relationship progresses smoothly until the golddigger reappears and wants to keep their love affair going. They begin Read More