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Synopsis: One of the first of several horror films with "Don't" leading the title, this gory low-budget thriller takes place in an experimental hospital for the criminally insane, where the pioneering director allows several patients to act out their twisted fantasies (which involve necrophilia, paranoia Read More
Actors: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne, Billy Chapin
Synopsis: A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played by Richard Todd. In his youth, Marshall moves to Washington DC, where he becomes pastor of the Church of the Presidents. His wisdom and conviction enables Marshall to Read More
Actors: Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel
Synopsis: "You've never SEEN Gregory Peck until you've seen him in CINEMASCOPE." So read the publicity hype for 20th Century-Fox's Night People. Actually, Peck is his usual solid, stoic self as Col. Van Dyke, a CIA officer stationed in West Berlin. When an American soldier is kidnapped by the Soviets in the Read More
Synopsis: A determined, fearless widow seeks to expose government corruption in her home city in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jacqueline Clarke, Peter Croft, Peggy Cummins, Cyril Cusack, Betty Ann Davies
Synopsis: In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a policeman. He pushes the abusive cop away during the tussle; the cop falls, hits his head, and dies. The former flier is promptly tried and given a three-year prison sentence. He Read More
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry Barnes, Anne Crawford, Beatrice Varley
Synopsis: Margaret Lockwood is cast against type as a "black widow" in the British Bedelia. Wealthy but naïve Charlie Carrington (Ian Hunter) is swept off his feet by the beauteous Bedelia (Lockwood), whose three previous husbands, also wealthy, have died ostensibly of natural causes. While on their Read More
Actors: Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, George Macready, Henry Daniell
Synopsis: The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin Hood (Russell Hicks). Robert elects to follow in his father's footsteps when oppression rears its ugly head in the form of a despotic Regent (Henry Daniell) and his partner Read More
Actors: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Patricia Collinge
Synopsis: When he finds out his ex-wife has just had his child and plans to give her up for adoption, a timid English instructor dashes to the child's rescue and attempts to care for her in a hotel room. Before too long, however, his new fiancee and his ex confront him and he must decide what he will do. Read More
Actors: Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland, Charles Arnt
Synopsis: In this adventure the young lively daughter of wealthy Virginia parents bridles under the stern tutelage of her new English nanny who insists she forego her tomboy ways and act like a perfectly lady. This nanny runs the household with an iron hand and the little girl is terribly unhappy until she Read More
Actors: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Roddy McDowall, Van Johnson
Synopsis: The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one can remember the film as a sum total. Based on a poem by Alice Duer Miller, the story chronicles the trials and tribulations of one courageous woman through two world wars. Read More
Actors: Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Otto Preminger, Peggy Ann Garner, J. Carrol Naish
Synopsis: Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis invade the country. Reluctantly, Woolley agrees to transport several French children into England. As the flight to freedom becomes more treacherous, Woolley grows fonder of Read More
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Katherine Alexander, Donald Douglas
Synopsis: Roddy McDowall stars Hugh Aylesworth, as a well-bred English youth who is evacuated to America during the London blitz. Hugh moves into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (Don Douglas and Katherine Alexander), both of whom are charmed by their little guest's impeccable manners. Less charmed is the Read More
Actors: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter. Tyrone Power plays Clive Briggs, a conscientious objector from humble origins, who deserts the British Army because he doesn't believe in fighting to preserve his country's Read More
Actors: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers
Synopsis: At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no identity and no next of kin, he has nowhere else to go. Unable to stand the loneliness, Colman wanders into the streets, then stumbles into a music hall, where he is befriended by Read More
Actors: Margaret O'Brien, Robert Young, Laraine Day, Fay Bainter, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of that remarkable child actress Margaret O'Brien. While visiting London, American married couple Robert Young and Laraine Day are caught in the middle of the 1940 blitz. Read More
Actors: Robert Stack, Diana Barrymore, John Loder, Eddie Albert, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: With America's Air Force not completely mobilized in mid-1942, Universal paid tribute to those foresighted Yankee flyboys who joined England's Royal Air Force before America's entry into WW2 in Eagle Squadron. Robert Stack stars as Chuck Brewer, one of several US flyers participating in RAF Read More
Actors: Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Jill Esmond, Gibb McLaughlin, Muriel Aked
Synopsis: Back before there was "no-fault divorce" couples wanting to split up had to provide hard evidence of spousal wrong-doing before a judge. This comedy centers on the attempts of one such couple to prove that the other is a schnook so they can be rid of each other. Separately, they hire detectives Read More
Actors: Leslie Fenton, Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, George Merritt, Donald Calthrop
Synopsis: This drama is set upon a floating platform, used for oil drilling, located in the Atlantic. The owners of a rival platform are desperate to destroy it. The film was originally made in German and titled F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Robert Armstrong, Arline Judge
Synopsis: Ricardo Cortez plays a newspaper gossip columnist based on real-life journalist Walter Winchell (the film's title was in fact a Winchell catchphrase). Merrily dishing up innuendoes and destroying reputations, Cortez enjoys hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, including several disreputable Read More
Actors: Edna May Oliver, Ken Murray, Roscoe Ates, Kitty Kelly, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams
Synopsis: Edna May Oliver portrays a society dowager called for jury duty on a murder trial wherein a pretty young woman is accused of killing her older husband. She takes her job quite seriously, and soon is playing both "prosecutor" and "DA" with judge and witnesses alike. In this unorthodox but highly Read More
Actors: Irene Dunne, Myrna Loy, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Florence Eldridge
Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an embittered woman exacts revenge upon the 12 women who wronged her in college. The trouble began when the woman, who was of Japanese and Indian heritage, was ejected from a college sorority because she wasn't white. Still angry, the woman hires an astrologer to create Read More
Synopsis: An auto accident injuring aristocrat de Marney forces his wife, former actress Doria March, to get a job in a show financially supported by her brother-in-law, Guy Newall, in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan
Synopsis: John Barrymore is the "State's Attorney" in the RKO picture of the same name. A brilliant criminal lawyer, Barrymore counts on his underworld connections to climb the ladder of success to the Governor's chair. "Humanized" by his girlfriend Helen Twelvetrees, a former streetwalker, Barrymore Read More
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, Phyllis Konstam, John Longden, C.V. France, Helen Haye, Frank Lawton
Synopsis: This uncharacteristic Alfred Hitchcock endeavor was adapted by Hitch and his wife, Alma Reville, from a play by John Galsworthy. The British countryside turns into an ideological battlefield when Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn), a wealthy, self-man tradesman, stakes his claim to a piece of valuable Read More
Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello, Jill Esmond, Geoffrey Kerr
Synopsis: In this drama, a Russian woman marries a British aristocrat, bears him a daughter, and is forced to abandon them by his snooty family when he decides to run for Parliament because constituents would disapprove of her eccentric Russian ways. The poor wife moves to Paris and many years pass. The Read More
Actors: Matheson Lang, Jill Esmond, Anna Neagle, Derek Williams, Ballard Berkeley
Synopsis: The second of three versions of the Marion Osmond-James Corbett stage melodrama The Chinese Bungalow, this one was adapted for the screen by the playwrights themselves. Jill Esmond (then the wife of Laurence Olivier) plays Jean, a British girl who foolishly marries Chinese mandarin Yuan Sing (Matheson Lang Read More
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