Felix AylmerFilmography

Ingrid

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all included. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Legend of the Champions

Synopsis: Three secret agents gain superhuman powers by the inhabitants of an ancient city after their plane crashes in the Himalayas. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hostile Witness

Synopsis: In this psychological drama, the daughter of a British barrister is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Her bereaved father swears his revenge. When the man's neighbor is killed, the barrister finds himself accused of the death. He begins to wonder if he is not going stark raving mad. ~ Sandra Read More

Decline and Fall... of a Bird Watcher

Actors: Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page, Donald Wolfit, Colin Blakely, Patience Collier

Synopsis: In this feather-weight version of Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall, Paul Pennyfeather (Robin Phillips) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the Read More

Oh Brother!: Series 01

Actors: Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Colin Gordon

The Walrus and the Carpenter [TV Series]

Actors: Hugh Griffith, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: The British sitcom The Walrus and the Carpenter originated on December 14, 1963, as a one-off episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse. Having nothing to do with Lewis Carroll despite its title, the series detailed the misadventures of a pair of mismatched old friends, played by eminent British Read More

School for Scandal

Synopsis: This Victorian comedy is a British television adaptation of Richard Sheridan's then famous play. The story is set in Lady Sneerwell's salon where the social elite gather for entertaining hours of gossip and backstabbing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Masquerade

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jack Hawkins, Marisa Mell, Christopher Witty, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation of Ramaut to lease their oil fields for drilling by U.K. petroleum companies, but at the last minute, the deal collapses, and Col. Drexel (Jack Hawkins), a military leader Read More

The Chalk Garden

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British "problem child" Laurel (Hayley Mills). Both Madrigal and faithful butler Maitland (John Mills) are aware that Laurel's atrocious behavior stems from her belief that her Read More

The Running Man

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield

Synopsis: Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner of a small air transport company who is believed to have drowned in a recent glider accident. It soon turns out, however, that Black is very much alive; he faked his death Read More

The Road to Hong Kong

Actors: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured Dorothy Lamour once made famous. In this road to Hong Kong and parts far beyond, Chester and Harry (Hope and Crosby) are a couple of failed vaudeville stars looking for a way to Read More

The Boys

Actors: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis Ipcress File (65) when he helmed the British social melodrama The Boys. The title characters are four youths, all implicated in the murder of a night watchman. Robert Morley plays the Read More

Victoria Regina

Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the reign of England's Queen Victoria from her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Mains D'Orlac

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Lucille Saint-Simon, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Maurice Renard novel Hands of Orlac was given another cinematic go-round in this Franco-British production. Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Mel Ferrer) survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff (Donald Wolfit) grafts a pair of new Read More

The Molester

Never Take Candy From A Stranger

Actors: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt

Synopsis: Set in Canada, this nasty little fable is about a respectable village elder (Patrick Allen) who is also a sexual deviate. Using candy as bait, he persuades two little girls to dance naked for him. When the girls complain to their parents, the old man is taken to court, but his prestige in town Read More

Macbeth

Actors: Malcolm Keen, Maurice Evans, Judith Anderson, Michael Hordern, Ian Bannen, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its 1960 production of Macbeth to film. Maurice Evans stars as the fatally ambitious Scots warrior, with Judith Anderson as Lady MacBeth and Malcolm Keen as Duncan, whom MacBeth Read More

Exodus

Actors: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of Read More

From the Terrace

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

Synopsis: This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability to Read More

The Mummy

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: While on a dig in Egypt, British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka, awakening her mummified lover (Christopher Lee). With revenge on his mind, the mummy follows Banning and the rest of his group back to England, but becomes quite taken with Banning's Read More

The Doctor's Dilemma

Actors: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers to assume that Doctor's Dilemma was merely the latest installment in Bogarde's "Doctor in the House" series. Bogarde plays a rakish artist who falls victim to consumption. Leslie Caron Read More

I Accuse!

Actors: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also directed) stars as French Army captain Alfred Dreyfus, who is chosen as the fall guy for a major military scandal for no other discernable reason than his Jewishness. Wrongly Read More

Separate Tables

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Read More

The Two-Headed Spy

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Alexander Knox, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This WWII espionage drama is based on the true tale of a British spy, as told in the story by J. Alvin Kugelmass. Alex Schottland (Jack Hawkins) is a career agent for England, having served during WWI. He is assigned to Nazi Germany and rises to the rank of general as WWII breaks out. His contact Read More

Saint Joan

Actors: Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, Anton Walbrook, John Gielgud

Synopsis: After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to play Joan of Arc, a role traditionally portrayed by actresses twice to three times Seberg's age. Seberg is cast opposite such venerable pros as Richard Todd (as Dunois), Anton Walbrook Read More

Anastasia

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner's motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to Read More

Loser Takes All

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Glynis Johns, Robert Morley, Tony Britton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this location-filmed domestic seriocomedy, Rosanno Brazzi and Glynis Johns play an accountant and his new wife, honeymooning in Monte Carlo. With the casino in full view and ready for action, the couple would be remiss if they didn't give the gaming tables a try. Besides, Brazzi is certain that Read More

The Love Lottery

Actors: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom, Charles Victor

Synopsis: David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star who is the "prize" in a lottery dreamed up by his press agent. The lucky lady who "wins" Niven will be able to spend a week in his company. Sensing the silliness of the whole Read More

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp

Actors: Felix Aylmer, Diane Cilento, Robert Eddison, Jerry Desmonde, Joe Linnane

Synopsis: The rundown British community of Islington is visited by a heavenly angel (Diane Cilento), sent down on a do-good mission. Her principal assignment is to soften the heart of a soulless pawnbroker (Felix Aylmer), and to that end appears in human form to do what the title says she does. During her Read More

The Paris Express

Actors: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Michael Nightingale, Marius Goring, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the source for the Anglo-American The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. Claude Rains stars as Kees Popinga, chief clerk for a Dutch trading company. Scrupulously honest, Popinga goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support Read More

The Master of Ballantrae

Actors: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux

Synopsis: Errol Flynn buckled his last swash in The Master of Ballantrae, playing out the final film of his Warner Brothers contract in this high seas adventure, liberally adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson yarn. Flynn plays Jamie Durrisdeer, a Scottish heir, who fights for freedom against the British. Read More

Knights of the Round Table

Actors: Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer, Anne Crawford, Stanley Baker, Gabriel Woolf

Synopsis: MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any copyrighted material (specifically T.H. White's The Once and Future King), the film spins a lucid account of the King Arthur legend. The good king is played by Mel Ferrer, while Read More

Ivanhoe

Actors: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England from the Third Crusades, Ivanhoe is given a cool but cordial reception by his estranged father Cedric (Finlay Currie), a Saxon who despises the Norman king Richard the Read More

The Lady with a Lamp

Actors: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Sr., Gladys Young, Felix Aylmer, Sybil Thorndike, Julian D'Albie

Synopsis: British film-favorite Anna Neagle, having previously played such great historical personages as Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell, tackles the role of Florence Nightingale in Lady with the Lamp. Based on a play by Reginald Berkeley, the film traces the indefatigable Nightingale's efforts to minister Read More

No Highway in the Sky

Actors: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as Theodore Honey, a widower and single parent to 11-year-old Elspeth (Janette Scott). He's also an absent-minded engineer who has formed a scientific theory about metal Read More

I'll Never Forget You

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Beatrice Campbell, Dennis Price

Synopsis: I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a launching pad. Tyrone Power stars as an American atomic scientist working in London. He lives in an ancestral home which dates back to the 18th century. Late one rainy Read More

Quo Vadis?

Actors: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan

Synopsis: Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many versions of Henryk Sienkiewicz' novel. The plot, as always, concerns the romance between a beautiful early Christian woman (Deborah Kerr) and the initially agnostic Roman Read More

Trio

Actors: James Hayter, Anne Crawford, Felix Aylmer, Nigel Patrick, Jean Simmons, Lana Morris, Michael Rennie, Michael Hordern, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Trio was the 1950 follow-up to the successful Somerset Maugham "omnibus" feature Quartet. Maugham himself introduces the three short playlets in this captivating collection. "The Verger" stars James Hayter as a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Stephen Murray, Pamela Brown, Carol Marsh, Felix Aylmer, Ernest Milton

Synopsis: Alice in Wonderland is a misfire attempt to retell the Lewis Carroll story in the style of the famous John Tenniel illustrations. The film is an uncomfortable blend of live actors in ill-fitting costumes, ugly life-sized puppets, and ragged stop-motion animation. Carol Marsh, as Alice, is the only Read More

So Long at the Fair

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Honor Blackman, Cathleen Nesbitt

Synopsis: So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now accepted as truth. The year is 1889: the setting, the Paris Exhibition. Among the thousands in attendance are Vicky Barton (Jean Simmons) and her brother Johnny (David Tomlinson Read More

She Shall Have Murder

Synopsis: A mystery novel by Delano Ames was the launching pad for the British meller She Shall Have Murder. "She" is Rosamund John, a mystery writer wannabe who works in a law office. Rosamund ends up with plenty of story material when a client turns up dead. Trouble is, she may not live to tell the tale. Read More

Eye Witness

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer, Patricia Wayne, Andrew Cruickshank

Synopsis: The fourth directorial effort of actor Robert Montgomery, Eye Witness was lensed on location in England. Montgomery plays an American attorney whose British pal (Michael Ripper) has been accused of murder. Ripper insists that he spent the evening of the crime with a woman, who has seemingly Read More

Christopher Columbus

Actors: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Linden Travers, Kathleen Ryan, Derek Bond

Synopsis: Reverent to the point of tedium, Christopher Columbus stars Fredric March in the title role, and he's welcome to it. March's wife Florence Eldredge co-stars as Queen Isabella, who finances Columbus' expedition to find a westward route to India. After several reels devoted to table-top miniatures Read More

Edward, My Son

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald, Mervyn Johns, Leucen MacGrath

Synopsis: Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and drives two people to suicide in order to smooth Edward's path in life. The boy repays this loyalty by becoming an ungrateful wastrel, who fathers a child out of wedlock and ends Read More

Prince of Foxes

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Read More

The Calendar

Actors: Greta Gynt, John McCallum, Sonia Holm, Leslie Dwyer, Charles Victor

Synopsis: The leaves of the Calendar begin to fall rapidly when avaricious Wenda (Greta Gynt) jilts newly-impoverished horse owner Garry (John McCallum). Wenda then weds Willie (Raymond Lovell), the brother of Garry's former horse-trainer Molly (Sonia Holm). While drowning his sorrows in liquor, Garry joins 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 October Man

Actors: Adrianne Allen, John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Felix Aylmer, George Benson, Edward Chapman, Joyce Carey, Esme Beringer, Kay Walsh, John Boxer

Synopsis: Adapted by Eric Ambler from his own novel, The October Man centers around Jim Ackland (played by John Mills), who has been involved in a terrible accident that killed a friend's daughter and has given Ackland a brain injury. Despondent after his release from the hospital, Ackland moves into a Read More

The Years Between

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson, James McKechnie, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Daphne Du Maurier, The Years Between stars Valerie Hobson as war widow Diana. Determined to carry on her husband's work, Diana enters the business world, ultimately emerging as a Member of Parliament. On the eve of her second marriage, Diana's first husband Michael (Michael Read More

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Felix Aylmer, Robert Beaumont, Madge Brindley, Ronald Frankau

Synopsis: Firmly in the fantasy groove previously plowed by such films as The Canterville Ghost and The Time of Their Lives is the 1947 British comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square. Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer play a pair of fatuous Colonel Blimp military types, whose efforts to shorten the war results Read More

A Man About the House

Actors: Margaret Johnston, Dulcie Gray, Guy Middleton, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: A novel by Francis Brett Young and its theatrical adaptation by John Perry were the sources for the even-keeled melodrama A Man About the House. Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Read More

The Man Within

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood, Richard Attenborough, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from the point of view of seaman Andrews (Richard Attenborough), the ward of 19th century smuggler chieftan Carylyton (Michael Redgrave). Feeling persecuted by his stern 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

Green Fingers

Actors: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer, Harry Welchman

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a fisherman begins studying to be a doctor. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a terminal illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was 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 Laughing Lady

Actors: Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Francis L. Sullivan, Peter Graves

Synopsis: The French Revolution provides the setting for the British musical. The story centers on the notorious rebel Robespierre who cuts a deal with the son of a duchess headed for the guillotine. Robespierre tells the son that if he can go to England and find a pearl necklace Marie Antoinette gave as a Read More

The Way to the Stars

Actors: John Mills, Michael Redgrave, Douglass Montgomery, Bonar Colleano, Trevor Howard, Rosamund John

Synopsis: Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain affected the lives of combatants and civilians alike. Terence Rattigan's screenplay concentrates on three groups of people: an American pilot and his wife, a doomed British Read More

The Wicked Lady

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, Enid Stamp Taylor

Synopsis: In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve the tedium of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Meeting up with the rogue Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason), the two begin a relationship. When Read More

Henry V

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Renée Ashershon, Esmond Knight, Leslie Banks, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Janet Burnell

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier's adaptation of Henry V is one of the finest Shakespeare films ever made, full of rousing action, beautiful colors and passionate performances. Henry V is the story of the newly crowned king of England who fights the French for possession of Normandy. Olivier's direction is Read More

Time Flies

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy, a nutty inventor and his loyal butler use his time machine to travel to Elizabethan times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

English without Tears

Actors: Michael Wilding, Sr., Lilli Palmer, Claude Dauphin, Albert Lieven

Synopsis: English without Tears is a gentle satire of the temporary relaxation of class barriers in wartime England. Michael Wilding portrays the faithful family butler to a fabulously wealthy household. Each member of the family greets the news of upcoming world conflict with a different reaction, the most Read More

Mr. Emmanuel

Actors: Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilia, Peter Mullins, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: Though a top-billed British stage star, Feliz Aylmer seldom rose above the supporting cast in films: Mr. Emmanuel is a rare exception. Aylmer plays the title role, an elderly European Jew living in Manchester, England. Honoring a promise to a young refugee, Mr. Emmanuel makes a perilous journey to Read More

Escape to Danger

Actors: Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Karel Stepanek, Ronald Ward, Ronald Adam

Synopsis: In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret plans for a European invasion. Unbeknownst to the Nazis, the man is really and agent for the Allies. He is pursued by an English agent who exposes him. She then takes part in Read More

The Demi-Paradise

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Henson

Synopsis: Demi-Paradise stars Laurence Olivier as a Russian inventor (accent and all). In Europe to promote his new propeller device, Olivier is put off by English customs and manners-or, rather, the lack of the latter. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but Read More

Thursday's Child

Actors: Sally Ann Howes, Wilfred Lawson, Kathleen O'Regan, Eileen Bennett, Stewart Granger

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, a young girl's family disintegrates after the child becomes a movie star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Actors: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, Albert Lieven, Spencer Trevor, James McKechnie

Synopsis:
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's much-lauded epic Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which satirizes British traditionalism, stirred up impassioned hostilities and indignations among the Brits when released in 1943. It so infuriated Winston Churchill, in fact, that he refused to allow its Read More

Uncensored

Actors: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Irene Handl, Frederick Culley, Peter Glenville

Synopsis: This WWII drama, based on a novel by Oscar E. Millard, takes place in Nazi-occupied Belgium. Andre Delange (Eric Portman) owns a nightclub but is connected with the resistance movement. He used to secretly publish an anti-Nazi paper before the German invasion. Now his underground comrades want to Read More

The Young Mr. Pitt

Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Raymond Lovell, Max Adrian

Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More

The Peterville Diamond

Synopsis: In this comedy, a work-aholic husband pacifies his complaining, neglected wife by buying her the fabulous Peterville Diamond while they are on vacation in Mexico. He then returns to his work. Meanwhile, a jewel thief learns of her acquisition and begins courting the lonely wife so he can steal the Read More

Sabotage at Sea

Synopsis: Set during WW II, this drama follows the travails of a cargo ship captain as he launches a desperate search of his vessel for a possible saboteur. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spellbound

Synopsis: In this supernatural drama, a college student finds himself fixated upon thoughts of his late lover. Unable to forget her, he attempts to contact her spirit by holding a seance. The experience so frightens him and afterward he suffers a breakdown. Eventually he heals with the assistance of a Read More

I Thank You

Actors: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Lily Morris, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt

Synopsis: In the late 1930s-early 1940s, diminutive British music-hall and radio comedian Arthur Askey enjoyed a popularity commensurate to that of Hollywood's Abbott & Costello; accordingly, Askey's earliest starring films were all box-office bonanzas. In I Thank You, Askey and his perennial straight man Richard Murdoch Read More

Kipps

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Wilding, Sr., Arthur Riscoe, Max Adrian, Philip Sydney Frost

Synopsis: Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large Read More

The Seventh Survivor

Synopsis: This wartime drama is set during WW II and centers on 6 survivors of a torpedo attack adrift in a lifeboat. One of them is a Nazi spy who is carrying classified information stolen from the Allies. The survivors are joined by a British counter-spy who reveals the Nazi's true identity. ~ Sandra 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

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

Actors: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the Nazis who are trying to prevent the signing of an important trade agreement between South American countries and England. When the professor learns that a Nazi agent has breached Read More

Hi Gang!

South American George

Synopsis: In this comedy of mistaken identity, an amiable fellow decides to help out his singing South American look-a-like who must fulfill a few obligations for his opera company. Mayhem ensues when the bogus singer finds himself pursued by paid assassins. Fortunately, the whole mess is straightened out Read More

Major Barbara

Actors: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller. Hiller plays Major Barbara Undershaft, a major in the Salvation Army who is also a socialist and stridently attacks capitalists -- in particular her Read More

The Ghost of St. Michael's

Synopsis: When the bagpipes play, death will follow in this spooky comedy set in a dank and creepy Scottish castle during WW II. It begins when a school teacher at a London boy's academy must evacuate his charges to the castle. There they hear the legend of the deadly pipes. Sure enough their mournful call Read More

Hi, Gang!

Synopsis: In this musical, the on-air rivalry between a married pair of American radio stars, each hosting a different show heats to boiling when they each have British evacuees on their shows. The wife gets a fellow who claims to live in a castle. A brouhaha ensues as he is believed to be the long-lost Read More

Sons of the Sea

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power, Margaretta Scott

Synopsis: Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a romanticized recounting of the first-ever steamship crossing of the Atlantic in 1837. Michael Redgrave and Griffith Jones star as the MacIver brothers (the film is based on a story Read More

Once a Crook

Actors: Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Kathleen Harrison, Carla Lehmann, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins. Convinced that Charlie was responsible for his arrest, his former partner The Duke (Bernard Lee) vows to get even our hero. The Duke accomplishes this by luring Charlie's son Bill Read More

Saloon Bar

Actors: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Joyce Barbour, Anna Konstam

Synopsis: Director Walter Forde, a past master at blending mystery, melodrama and comedy (vide The Ghost Train and Bulldog Jack), is at his best with Saloon Bar. Most of the action takes place during one busy evening in an English pub, with a rich variety of believable comic characters weaving in and out of Read More

The Briggs Family

Synopsis: In this family drama a crippled young man is arrested and accused of robbery. His father, a lawyer's clerk, must now defend his son. To do so, he learns the ins and outs of legal counsel. He ends up saving his son and finding the real thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dr. O'Dowd

Actors: Peggy Cummins, Mary Merrall, Liam Gaffney, Patricia Roc

Synopsis: Boozy doctor O'Dowd gets into deep trouble after he is accused of operating under the influence and causing the death of his daughter-in-law in this sudsy drama. Now the Irish physician must somehow redeem his good name. He gets his chance during a diphtheria outbreak. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

The Girl in the News

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Barry Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford, Margaretta Scott, Wyndham Goldie

Synopsis: Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later interviews. Even so, the film is a worthwhile effort, with an intricate and sometimes amusing script by Sydney Gilliat. Young lawyer Stephen Garringdon (Barry K. Barnes) manages Read More

Night Train to Munich

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the Read More

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Actors: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Patrick Barr, John Warwick, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: A stage play by the astonishingly prolific Edgar Wallace was the source for the British melodrama Case of the Frightened Lady. The story focuses on the aristocratic Lebanon family, with Dowager Lady Lebanon (Helen Hayes) harboring a Deep Dark Secret. It seems that every generation or so, the Read More

Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt

Synopsis: This film is an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas stage perennial Charley's Aunt, starring bespectacled British radio comedian Arthur Askey. Since Askey's professional nickname was "Big-Hearted Arthur", and since another Charley's Aunt starring Jack Benny went before the cameras in 1941, the title Read More

Spies of the Air

Actors: Barry Barnes, Roger Livesey, Joan Marion, Basil Radford, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: The success of the British Q Planes spawned a brief cycle in airborne espionage pictures--at least until all British aircraft was impounded for actual combat use. The title Spies of the Air tells all: The central character is a test pilot who turns out to be in the employ of The Enemy. Since the Read More

Break the News

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jack Buchanan, June Knight, Marta Labarr, Gertrude Musgrove

Synopsis: What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer Maurice Chevalier, legendary director Rene Clair, and songwriter Cole Porter. But what should have made for dynamite entertainment, fizzled in the eyes of disappointed contemporary Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Gertrude Michael, John Lodge, David Burns, Jeanne de Casalis, Hartley Power

Synopsis: American leading lady Gertrude Michael tops the cast of the British Just Like a Woman. Reprising her misbehavior in Hollywood's The Notorious Sophie Lang, Michael plays jewel thief Ann Heston, who purloins a string of valuable pearls right from under the long noses of the law. She is then pursued 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

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

Bank Holiday

Actors: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, Renee Ray, Linden Travers, Merle Tottenham

Synopsis: A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class Brightoners on holiday. Margaret Lockwood and Hugh Williams played the largest roles, as a couple who find love during their one-day respite from work. Comic relief (which in this Read More

Sixty Glorious Years

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C. Aubrey Smith, Walter Rilia, Charles Carson

Synopsis: Anna Neagle repeats her role from the successful Victoria the Great (1937) as the domineering Queen Victoria in this slice-of-life melodrama on royalty and the upper classes. The 60 years of the title refers to Victoria's reign on the throne of England. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

I've Got a Horse

Synopsis: In this comedy, a man becomes the owner of a race horse, at least he thought it was a race horse. As he watches the beast lightly prance down the homestretch the poor man realizes that he has a circus horse. Naturally the horse loses. The pragmatic fellow then decides to give up the racetrack in 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

Kate Plus Ten

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a police inspector pursues a Lord's secretary suspected of stealing his gold bullion. She is the prime suspect because she is the leader of an infamous gang of thieves. The cops do not realize that the gang acted on their own accord. The secretary and the inspector then team 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 Live Wire

Actors: Bernard Nedell, Jean Gillie, David Burns, Hugh Wakefield, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a Yankee con artist hides out in England. Trouble ensues when he follows a pretty girl into a office building and encounters the company president just before he commits suicide. He then learns that the distraught executive has been involved in embezzling scheme. The con Read More

The Mill on the Floss

Actors: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Fay Compton, James Mason

Synopsis: It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that Mill on the Floss has nosed out Silas Marner. Set in early 19th century England, the story focuses on the long-standing rivalry between two Lincolnshire families. The animosity stems from Read More

Victoria the Great

Actors: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilia, Mary Morris, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast Read More

The Vicar of Bray

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Hugh Miller, Felix Aylmer, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: In this musical drama set during the reign of Charles I, an Irish priest is assigned to educate the prince. The prince becomes a king and one day the priest approaches and asks the king to release a political prisoner who belongs to the vicar's parish. The king, who promised to grant his former Read More

The Frog

Actors: Gordon Harker, Jack Hawkins, Esme Percy, Felix Aylmer

Glamorous Night

Actors: Mary Ellis, Otto Kruger, Barry Mackay, Victor Jory, Trevor Jones

Synopsis: The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the Novello score that had made it famous. Opera singer Mary Ellis plays an opera singer (why not?) who falls in with a band of roguish but likeable gypsies. Mary manages to Read More

The Rat

Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Anton Walbrook, Renee Ray, Beatrix Lehmann, Mary Clare

Synopsis: In this drama, "The Rat" is the moniker for a notorious jewel thief whose life suddenly changes when a friend facing life imprisonment asks him to take care of his daughter. She does a good job of helping in the thief's home, but then a woman falls for him and throws her own boy friend out. The Read More

Dusty Ermine

Actors: Ronald Squire, Jane Baxter, Arthur Macrae, Anthony Bushell, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: Although Neil Grant's stage play Dusty Ermine enjoyed a 250-performance run in London, screenwriters Du Garde Peach and Michael Hankinson could not resist the temptation to "improve" the play for its 1936 film version. Surprisingly, the film actually did turn out to be better than the play, no Read More

In the Soup

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a barrister badly botches his first case and begins to think he has chosen the wrong career. To assist with their bills, he and his wife sublet their apartment to several people at the same time. To fool them all, the couple pretends to be household servants and throws a Read More

The Man in the Mirror

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Ursula Jeans, Aubrey Mather

Synopsis: The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays Jeremy Dilke, a meek, mild-mannered businessman who allows everyone to use him for a doormat. While looking into his mirror, Dilke is confronted by his brusque, assertive alter Read More

As You Like It

Actors: Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer, Stuart Robertson, Leon Quartermaine, Austin Trevor, Laurence Olivier, Mackenzie Ward, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart

Synopsis: This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. As the story goes, Rosalind, smitten by Orlando and not able to get his attention, disguises herself as a boy to more easily remain in Orlando's vicinity. Eventually Orlando 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

She Shall Have Music

Actors: June Clyde, Marjorie Brooks, Gwen Farrar, Brian Lawrence, Claude Dampier

Synopsis: British orchestra leader Jack Hylton, whose popularity in his own country eclipsed that of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller in America, stars in She Shall Have Music. The unusually serious plotline finds Hylton mixed up in corporate intrigue on board a luxury liner. A millionaire hires the Read More

Royal Eagle

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a warehouse worker falsely accused of stealing and the murder of a cop, must prove his innocence while aboard a boat sailing between London and Margate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Seven Sinners

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings, Thomy Bourdelle, Henry Oscar, Felix Aylmer

Sensation

Actors: John Lodge, Diana Churchill, Francis Lister, Joan Marion, Margaret Vyner

Synopsis: Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who devotion to his job is messing up his private life. Despite warnings from his girl friend that she'll walk out if he follows up one more hot scoop, Lodge tries to flush out the Read More

Doomed Cargo.

Synopsis: Gunrunners who even kill their enemies through the use of train wrecks are being trailed by Yankee detective Lowe and girlfriend Cummings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Improper Duchess

Actors: Yvonne Arnaud, Hugh Wakefield, Wilfred Caithness, Arthur Finn, Gerald Barry

Synopsis: The Improper Duchess is never as naughty as its title, or else it wouldn't have made it to the screen in 1936. Yvonne Arnaud heads the cast as the Duchess of Tann, who comes to Washington D.C. on matters of state. In her efforts to secure a much-needed loan for her country, our heroine must first Read More

The Clairvoyant

Actors: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter, Mary Clare, Ben Field, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: Claude Rains is a phony psychic who makes a good living fleecing the suckers with his wild prognostications. But after Rains is plagued by severe headaches, he discovers that he truly does have "visions". Suddenly his predictions begin to come true, and Rains is elevated to a position of Read More

The Price of a Song

Synopsis: Arnold Grierson (Campbell Gulan) is a down-on-his-luck bookie with only one real asset left -- his attractive daughter. He pressures her into marrying Nevern, a highly successful songwriter who is as unpleasant as he is rich, in the hope that Nevern will provide him with a new source of income. Read More

The Wandering Jew

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Matheson Lang, Marie Ney, Cicely Oates, Malvina Longfellow, Isobel Elsom, Basil Gill, Anne Grey

Synopsis: This story is based both on a long-standing legend and a play by E. Temple Thurston. Veteran British director Maurice Elvey brought years of experience with theatrical adaptations to the difficult task of filming a movie that spans centuries and strains credulity. Conrad Veidt stars as the Jew who Read More

Hello Sweetheart

Synopsis: In this comedy, a sleazy group of gringo grifters try to con a naive farmer into investing his inheritance in their movie. They succeed and half-way through filming, abscond with the farmer's loot. The enterprising farmer finishes the film himself after turning it into a comedy. The film becomes a Read More

Casta Diva

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Phillips Holmes, Donald Calthrop, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Breon

Synopsis: Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several 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

Checkmate

Old Roses

Synopsis: "Old Roses," an elderly small town gardener with a love of the fragrant blossoms becomes friends with two young lovers. Such a true friend is he, that when the young man is accused of murder, he takes the rap for him. Fortunately, in the end, the kindly fellow confesses his ruse and is free to Read More

The Ace of Spades

Synopsis: The Ace of Spades is a lively little British crime meller. Detective Nick Trent (Michael Hogan) sets out to investigate the death of a politician. The accused is a young bucko named Tony (Richard Cooper)-but where's the motive? Digging deeper, Trent discovers that the manipulative sister (Jane Carr Read More

The Iron Duke

Actors: George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper, A.E. Matthews, Allan Aynesworth

Synopsis: The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with the usual glossovers and embellishments, of course). Arliss plays the Duke of Wellington, the brilliant and foresighted British diplomat -- warrior of the Napoleonic Era. Read More

Nine Days a Queen

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer, Leslie Perrins, Frank Cellier, Desmond Tester, Sybil Thorndike, Nova Pilbeam

Synopsis: This lush historical drama chronicles the brief reign of the late Henry VIII's successor, Lady Jane Grey. After only nine days on the throne, she was beheaded at the behest of the treacherous Mary Tudor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Old Dutch

Actors: Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Michael Hogan

Synopsis: Its title inspired by Albert Chevalier's world-famous music-hall ballad, My Old Dutch is a treacly tale of mother love. Marrying against her wealthy father's wishes, young Betty Balfour is left a widow when her husband is killed in WW I. Doing her best to raise her baby by herself, Balfour is Read More

Night Club Queen

Actors: Mary Clare, Lewis Casson

Synopsis: This musical quota-quickie was produced by Twickenham Films, the British "sister firm" of Universal Pictures. Mary Clare stars as Mary Brown, a no-nonsense London nightclub manager who is the sole support for her crippled husband and her college-student son. When a murder is committed at her Read More

Doctor's Orders

Actors: John Mills

Synopsis: John Mills made his seventh screen appearance in this British "quota quickie". Mills plays a supposed orphan who is actually the son of a medicine show huckster (Leslie Fuller). The shifty showman finances Mills' medical school education, keeping his identity secret all the while. It is all but Read More

The Path of Glory

Synopsis: In this satire, two mythical countries decide to bolster their flagging economies by declaring war on each other. The trouble is, neither side wants to win. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Whispering Tongues

Home, Sweet Home

Actors: John Stuart, Marie Ney, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a mining engineer is preparing to leave his recent South American job and return to England when he receives a depressing letter from his wife telling him that she has found a new lover with whom she wants to run away with. While her husband makes the long voyage home, the Read More

The Shadow

Actors: Henry Kendall, Elizabeth Allan, Jeanne Stuart, Felix Aylmer, Cyril Raymond

Synopsis: Often mistaken for a screen adaptation of the popular radio series, the British The Shadow was actually based on a play by Donald Stuart. A series of brutal murders have occurred in London, and the culprit is a vicious blackmailer known only as The Shadow. It is up to Scotland Yard to stop the Read More

The Wandering Jew

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ben Adler, Abraham Teitelbaum, Marie Ney, Anne Grey, Joan Maude, Peggy Ashcroft

Synopsis: Filmed in the Yiddish language, The Wandering Jew features Jacob Ben-Ami as a young Jewish artist living in Germany in the early 1930s. As the Nazis gain in influence, the artist's life and livelihood are slowly eroded: his non-Jewish fiancee leaves him and his paintings are rejected by the Read More

The Ghost Camera

Actors: Henry Kendall, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Very little plot, but some interesting scenes in this slight suspense offering. A man is falsely accused of murder. Luckily for him, a picture was taken of the murder. Unluckily for him, the camera had been thrown out of the window to destroy the evidence. Luckily, it landed in a passing car, so Read More

The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

Synopsis: In this drama, a power-mad attorney, the bastard son of a baronet, plots the demise of the rightful heir so he can inherit the title himself. Fortunately he is caught. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dreaming Lips

Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Anton Edthofer, Raymond Massey, Rudolf Forster, Romney Brent, Joyce Bland, Sydney Fairbrother

Synopsis: Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she Read More

The Calendar

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best

Synopsis: Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, The Calendar is set amongst Britain's horsey set. Herbert Marshall and his then-wife Edna Best star as a wealthy racehorse owner and his pretty trainer. After divesting Marshall of his millions, his mistress Anne Grey leaves him in favor of a younger Read More

The Temporary Widow

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Laurence Olivier, Felix Aylmer, Frank Stanmore

Synopsis: This German comedy contains the feature film debut of Sir Lawrence Olivier. He plays a modern artist who has not yet found an audience for his futuristic visions. The trouble begins when he apparently drowns during a boating accident and leaves his wife standing accused of murder. Eventually Read More

Escape

Actors: Gerald du Maurier, Edna Best, Mabel Poulton, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker

Synopsis: In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when he sees a crooked detective threatening a woman on the street. Denant and the detective soon fall into a brawl, and the detective is accidentally killed. Sentenced to five years in prison at hard Read More