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Actors: Hugh Williams, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber, Ian Marter, Elizabeth O'Donovan
Synopsis: Richard Burton co-directed (along with Nevill Coghill) this labor of love that records a performance given by Burton at Oxford University in 1966 of Christopher Marlowe's 400-year-old verse play. Burton plays Faust, a medieval doctor who sells his soul to Mephistopheles (Andreas Teuber) in Read More
Actors: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox
Synopsis: After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massacres a British-led force of 8,000 and marches on the strategic city of Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The British Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson
Synopsis: A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to Read More
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed, aging country vicar who hosts a family Christmas and learns a valuable lesson about keeping his own homefires alight before spending too much time tending the fires of others. Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a cynical sculptor finds a fresh outlook on life after meeting a lovely ballerina. He is utterly enchanted with her and begins creating a life-sized depiction of the beauty. Unfortunately, this enrages her jealous lover who brutally beats the artist. The sculptor is severely injured Read More
Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton, John Laurie
Synopsis: In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless paintings, "Madonna and Child." A series of art thefts has put the museum officials on red alert and they anxiously await the painting's arrival. Unfortunately, the painting Read More
Synopsis: This comedy is essentially a prototype of Disney's 1961 film Parent Trap and tells the tale of twin girls, separated after their parents divorce, who meet each other at summer camp and hatch an elaborate scheme to get their parents back together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jack Hawkins, Hugh Williams, Michael Medwin, George Cole, Dennis Price
Synopsis: Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is compounded when the intruder turns out to be one of the men from his World War II army unit. With the straight-arrow diligence of a wartime commander, Hawkins delves into the Read More
Actors: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Sonny Tufts, James Donald, Joan Rice
Synopsis: Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in spite of their inferior vessel. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams, Margot Grahame, Petula Clark, Carol Marsh
Synopsis: This British drama was originally titled Naughy Arlette. The title character, played by future director Mai Zetterling, is a French exchange student at a British art school. Teacher Hugh Williams is unable to resist Arlette's seductive charms, a fact that brings about his downfall. The girl's Read More
Synopsis: A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's Read More
Actors: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Hugh Williams, Nora Swinburne
Synopsis: The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private secretary to a celebrated public figure (Hugh Williams). Portman holds his boss in an esteem that borders on hero worship. But when his idol is brought into court, the Read More
Actors: Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Michael Laurence, Bernard Lee, Nicholas Phipps
Synopsis: Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not enough fans showed up back in 1948 to make the film a success. Neagle portrays four different characters from four different historical periods, each named Elizabeth. The Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Marius Goring, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Edwards
Synopsis: Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden violinist is found murdered, her ex-lover, show business manager Nicholas Talbot (Hugh Williams) finds himself under suspicion. The only person who believes that Talbot is Read More
Actors: Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Sr., Hugh Williams, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith
Synopsis: A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is a fine and upstanding British gentleman who has distinguished himself in the political arena and is selflessly devoted to his wife (Diana Wynyard). However, it turns out Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Naunton Wayne, Wylie Watson
Synopsis: Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently divorced inventor who becomes a scientist for the War Office to escape women, especially overtalkative, nagging ones like his ex-wife. Unfortunately, his female-free peace is Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, Joyce Howard, Roland Culver, John Warwick
Synopsis: Two sisters stick by each other through thick and thin in this drama. The elder sister has a rather sexually checkered past. The tale begins as she heads for the French Riviera in search of more adventure and meets a charming man who knows nothing about her notorious past. They end up getting Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, James Mason, Roland Culver, Michael Wilding, Sr.
Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to see how strong the invaders really are; unfortunately, the only way to get that information is to break into the German headquarters. They do so by pretending to be champagne Read More
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan
Synopsis: Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign correspondent Lockwood (Ralph Richardson), forced out of Norway by the Nazi invasion, returns to the occupied Scandanavian country at the request of the War Office. Lockwood's Read More
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
Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Pamela Brown, Hugh Burden
Synopsis: This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all Read More
Actors: John Lodge, Judy Kelly, Hugh Williams, Joan Marion, Edmund Breon
Synopsis: This lightweight but elaborately produced musical melodrama was originally released in Great Britain as Premiere. While watching the opening night of a Parisian stage extravanganza, the show's principal backer is murdered. Inspector Bonnard (John Lodge) deduces that the fatal shot was fired from Read More
Actors: Emlyn Williams, Sara Seegar, Hugh Williams, Marius Goring, Lesley Brook
Synopsis: In this crime drama, a boys' school matron is brutally murdered after she wins the French lottery. The story tells how it was done. She is killed by a French loan shark who tricks her into coming to his place. He then kills her and has another woman put on her clothing and collect the lottery Read More
Actors: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Synopsis: William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the Read More
Actors: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Wally Patch, Steven Geray
Synopsis: Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night at Eight". Hornleigh is played by Gordon Harker, while Alastair Sim assumes the comic-relief responsibilities inherent in the character of Sergeant Bingham. The "maguffin" Read More
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan, Wilfred Walter
Synopsis: In this eerie British thriller, a Scotland Yard detective looks into the mysterious drownings of five blind people. A daughter of one of the victims helps the investigators discover that each of the victims were patients of Dr. Orloff who turns out to be the killer. They then discover that he was Read More
Synopsis: In this British crime drama an argument over a new anaesthetic results in the murder of a hospital doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Paul Lukas, Linden Travers, Hugh Williams, Marie Ney, Renée Gadd
Synopsis: A brief encounter forms the basis of this romantic drama. It all begins when Helen Bernardi meets Jim Wyndham in a London restaurant. They end up spending the night and falling hopelessly in love. Unfortunately, in the cold morning light, they realize that must go back to their separate lives. Jim Read More
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
Synopsis: In this British thriller, a mild-mannered bank clerk has a sort of breakdown, gets tired of seeing other people always get the money, and robs the bank. He then sets up an elaborate scheme whereby it looks as if he felt so much remorse at his actions that he has ended his life by jumping overboard Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Roy Emerton, James Hayter, Lawrence Brown
Synopsis: African-American actor/singer Paul Robeson had to travel to England in the 1930s to seek out dignified film roles. In Big Fella, Robeson is a happy wanderer who chances upon a runaway child. The kid so enjoys the company of Robeson and his café-singer friend Elisabeth Welch that he threatens to Read More
Synopsis: In this WW I drama, an English soldier falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter. She is engaged to a German-born fellow who turns out to be a spy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Paul Lukas, Linden Travers, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a May-December relationship goes awry when the bride finds herself in love with her aged groom's young son, a dashing pilot. It seems that she and the pilot have met before. Matters are not helped by the fact that her husband is the young man's legal guardian. ~ Sandra Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, a wealthy heir is shamed by his fiancee at a fancy party and ends up taking off to the bad side of town. There he encounters an ex-con who mistakes the distraught fellow for a high-class thief. The ex-con takes the millionaire into a house for reformed criminals. It is managed by a Read More
Actors: Roland Young, Dorothy Bouchier, Hugh Williams, Frederick Burtwell, Glen Alyn
Synopsis: In this lightweight drama, a gypsy girl is betrothed to a circus lion tamer. Unfortunately, he leaves Hungary to marry another woman in England. The gypsy knows nothing of the new engagement and follows him. Because he has changed his bookings, she cannot find him. The frustrated girl faints dead Read More
Synopsis: Based upon The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle, The Man Behind the Mask was the last film Michael Powell made before The Edge of the World established him as a major director. As the film begins, loving couple Nick Barclay (Hugh Williams) and June Slade $Jane Baxter) are attending a Read More
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Basil Sydney, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an innkeeper's son. To prove his dad innocent of a crime, Barnaby poses as a famous bare-knuckle gentleman prizefighter. In this guise he gains access to the Royal court, and in Read More
Actors: Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Williams, Judy Gunn, Michael Brantford, Julien Mitchell
Synopsis: The "Grand Hotel" format was mixed with elements from the popular railroad melodramas Rome Express and The Ghost Train in the British The Last Journey. The scene is a speeding passenger train, peopled by the usual polyglot of commuters. There's a pair of pickpockets, a detective in pursuit of Read More
Actors: W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver
Synopsis: David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer David O. Selznick's major "literary" films for that studio. While a great deal of editing and streamlining was necessary to distill Charles Dickens' massive novel into 133 minutes of screen Read More
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
Actors: John Stuart, Hugh Williams, Alan Napier, Dino Galvani, Frank Pettingell
Synopsis: In this drama, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. As she is already betrothed to a count, neither of them have a chance until a murder occurs that sends one of the brothers to jail, freeing the other to have the woman. He does this by performing beautiful musical compositions that he Read More
Actors: Lilian Harvey, Tullio Carminatti, Janet Beecher, Hugh Williams, Tala Birell
Synopsis: Having struck gold in 1934 with Grace Moore's One Night of Love, Columbia Pictures hoped to do the same with international favorite Lillian Harvey in Let's Live Tonight. The story concentrates on a romantic triangle, with millionaire Nick Kerry (Tulio Carminati) and his brother Brian (Hugh Williams Read More
Actors: Claire Trevor, Gilbert Roland, Henrietta Crosman, Hugh Williams, Norman Foster
Synopsis: A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a naval hero finds himself framed by his CO's son for the theft of classified documents. He not only proves his innocence, he also manages to save his girl from the Chinese pirates who kidnapped her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: H.B. Warner, Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams, Winifred Shotter, Margot Grahame
Synopsis: The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role from the 1927 film version, H.B. Warner plays Captain Stephen Sorrell, a WW I hero reduced to scrubbing floors in a hotel. This he does for the sake of his beloved son Kit (Hugh Williams Read More
Actors: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan
Synopsis: Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by Greta Garbo as A Woman of Affairs. Constance Bennett is Iris March, a woman cursed by her beauty, doomed to drive everyone around her -- including herself -- to destruction. When Read More
Actors: Hugh Williams, Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Barrie, Herbert Mundin, Henry Stephenson
Synopsis: Before World War I, free-spirited Englishman Tony Clarendon (Hugh Williams) meets Austrian Katha (Helen Twelvetrees) on the island of Capri, and they fall deeply in love. When war breaks out, however, Tony has to return to England, where old friend Margaret Scrope (Mona Barrie) reveals she wants Read More
Actors: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Esme Percy, Clifford Heatherley, Ivy St. Helier
Synopsis: The first of two film versions of Noel Coward's operetta, 1933's Bitter Sweet stars British favorite Anna Neagle and continental star Fernand Graavey (who spelled his name "Gravet" in Hollywood). The wisp of a plot finds Victorian Neagle persuading Graavey to march her to the altar. A brilliant Read More
Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two aspiring actors fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. The two begin working in the same play and marital mayhem ensues. Just when it seems as if their parents were right, the woman turns up pregnant and the joyous newlyweds soon reconcile their Read More
Synopsis: White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died several months before the film's release (his son Bryan worked on the screenplay). In typical Wallace fashion, the story concerns a master criminal who adopts a clever disguise to throw the coppers Read More
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper, Donald Calthrop, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among Read More
Synopsis: In this actioner, a half-Arab member of the Foreign Legion, previously court-martialed for insubordination, cannot earn his commander's trust. Eventually the commander locks him up. The leader then sends his own son to fight with native troops. Meanwhile the jailed soldier breaks out and rushes to Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, set during the Depression, Charlie Stubbs tries to escape slum life by becoming a criminal. That doesn't work so he cleans up his act and becomes a cab driver for the woman he loves, Annie Collins. Trouble ensues when Annie's uncle frames him. Now Charlie may go to jail. It is Read More
Actors: Horace Hodges, Heather Angel, Franklin Dyall, Hugh Williams, Kay Hammond
Synopsis: In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found stabbed to death and an innocent man is charged with the crime. Fortunately, the accused's aged father is a former detective who begins working to clear his name. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Arthur Wontner, Phyllis Konstam, Vanda Greville, Hugh Williams
Synopsis: In this drama, a French judge, a womanizer when he is not upon the bench, is out on a date when he witnesses a murder. One of his ex-lovers is accused of the murder and the judge refuses to come forward. The situation becomes more outrageous when the judge is assigned to the case. He tries the Read More
Actors: Charlie Ruggles, June Collyer, Hugh Williams, Doris Lloyd, Halliwell Hobbes
Synopsis: This first talkie version of the evergreen Brandon Thomas stage farce Charley's Aunt stars Charlie Ruggles, obviously having the time of his life in the leading role. Though updated to 1930, the film adheres to the familiar plot as set down by Thomas back in 1895. Two Oxford undergraduates Read More
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