Kathleen HarrisonFilmography

West 11

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Kathleen Breck, Eric Portman, Diana Dors, Kathleen Harrison, Harold Lang

Synopsis: Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) forgoes working for a living in this seedy district of London. He hangs out in jazz clubs and chases women, which makes him lose what little money he has remaining. Ex-Army veteran Richard Dyce (Eric Portman) shows up at the club, and the two directionless louts begin to Read More

The Fast Lady

Actors: James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Kathleen Harrison, Julie Christie

Synopsis: The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures. Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter) is a simple civil servant who has his heart set on romancing Claire (Julie Christie in an early role), the daughter of wealthy businessman Read More

The Dog and the Diamonds

Synopsis: In this children's film, an enterprising gang of kids create a homemade zoo because they cannot have pets in their apartment. Their "zoo" is located behind an empty manor in an old garden. Unfortunately, the manor is the hideout of three jewel thieves. The brave children and their critters team up Read More

Mrs. Gibbons' Boys

Synopsis: In this British comedy drama, a dotty old widow finally finds a new love and happiness until her unruly sons bust out of prison and beg her to hide them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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

Alive and Kicking

Actors: Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Estelle Winwood, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: Dame Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison and Estelle Winwood, collectively representing some 200 years of British theatrical history, are top-billed in this feathery bit of whimsy. The starring trio plays three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence. They Read More

A Cry from the Streets

Actors: Max Bygraves, Barbara Murray, Colin Petersen, Dana Wilson, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Max Bygraves, a popular British comedian who once in a while entertained thoughts of a dramatic career, is costarred with Barbara Murray in A Cry from the Streets. The two play a pair of ingenuous social workers, assigned to one of the grubbiest neighborhoods in London. They join forces to help a Read More

The Beasts of Marseilles

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Tony Wright, Anna Gaylor, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: The British Seven Thunders was released in the US as Beasts of Marseilles. Set in 1943, the film stars Stephen Boyd and Tony Wright as escaped POWs Dave and Jim. Hiding out in Marseilles, the two protagonists battle over the affections of local gamine Lise (Anna Gaylor). When they find the time Read More

All for Mary

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison, David Tomlinson, David Hurst

Synopsis: Jill Day plays Mary in this frolicksome British comedy. While on vacation in Switzerland, Mary finds herself the object of several tourists' affection. Two of the men, Nigel Patrick and David Tomlinson, are British. The third, Leo McKern, is a wealthy, boorish Greek. Throughout the film, the Read More

The Big Money

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Belinda Lee, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Helpmann, James Hayter

Synopsis: Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out of crime except poor Ian, so he decides to redeem himself with a single spectacular caper. Somehow this involves a passel of Arabs and an unctuous TV news team, all of whom Read More

It's a Wonderful World

Actors: Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Ted Heath, James Hayter

Synopsis: No relation to the 1939 Claudette Colbert-James Stewart comedy of the same name, It's a Wonderful World is essentially a vehicle for British-based bandleader Ted Heath. The thinnish plot is set in motion by would-be songwriters Terence Morgan and George Cole, who manage to sell a tune by claiming Read More

Home and Away

Synopsis: In this comedy, the lives of two families get turned topsy-turvy when their respective young sons win a large football pool. The two share the winning ticket and the trouble begins when their parents get greedy and begin trying to devise way to get the hefty pot all to themselves. ~ Sandra Read More

Where There's a Will

Synopsis: In this corny British comedy, a Cockney family inherits a rundown Devon farm. Not everyone is pleased by the prospect of leaving the city, but the father insists and off they go. With the help of a savvy housekeeper, the family puts the ramshackle farm in order. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cast a Dark Shadow

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his first wife (Mona Washbourne), hoping to claim her inheritance. Surprise! The inheritance is a myth. Thus Bogarde sets his sights on barkeeper Margaret Lockwood, whom he knows to Read More

Lilacs in the Spring

Actors: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Anna Neagle is so overpoweringly good in Lilacs in the Spring (aka Let's Make Up!) that a times it's easy to forget that her co-star is Errol Flynn! Based on Glorious Days, a play by Robert Nesbitt, the film offers Neagle in four different characterizations. Suffering a concussion while serving in Read More

The Gay Adventure

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kathleen Harrison, Richard Murdoch

Synopsis: Three disparate male travellers quietly amuse themselves by fantasizing about the same beautiful blonde in this interesting, episodic comedy. A French bus driver sees her first and promptly imagines that she is a seductive photographer's model. In his fantasy, the two end up having a passionate Read More

Turn the Key Softly

Actors: Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison, Thora Hird

Synopsis: Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three newly released female convicts. Monica (Yvonne Mitchell) is full of hatred for the man who led her into a life of crime. Stella (Joan Collins) is an impulsive streetwalker Read More

The Pickwick Papers

Actors: James Hayter, James Donald, Alexander Gauge, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Murton, Kathleen Harrison, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick club, a scholarly league operating in mid-19th century London. The club's avowed purpose is to scrupulously study everyday life in England-not to improve or Read More

Mr. Lord Says No

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols, John Stratton

Synopsis: Mr. Henry Lord (Stanley Holloway) and his wife Lilian (Kathleen Byron) have been asked to move from their home to make room for the 1950 Festival of Britain. But Mr. Lord, as the title makes clear, has no intention of doing so. The government tries all sorts of persuasion and coercion, but ends up 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

A Christmas Carol

Actors: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Michael Hordern, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British adaptation, starring Alastair Sim (entitled "Scrooge" in its U.K. release). Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a London miser who, despite his wealth, refuses to make charitable Read More

Double Confession

Actors: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double Confession. It all begins when the wife of Jim Medway (Derek Farr) turns up dead. Since the evidence points to murder, the embittered Medway does his best to pin the "killing" on his wife's lover Read More

Waterfront

Actors: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw

Synopsis: A decidedly pre-Around the World in 80 Days Michael Anderson was the director of the British melodrama Waterfront. Robert Newton pulls out all the stops as an embittered, alcoholic sailor who deserts his family, only to return 14 years later. If he was expecting a warm reunion, he was sadly 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

The Winslow Boy

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Neil North, Basil Radford, Jack Watling, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is prevented by existing British law to clear his son's Read More

Now Barabbas Was a Robber

Actors: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray

Synopsis: A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture. Richard Greene heads the cast as Turnfell, a murderer facing a death sentence. Turnfell is but one of several inmates whose joys and sorrows are detailed in anecdotal fashion: others Read More

Landfall

Actors: Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Margaret Barton, Charles Victor

Synopsis: Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron after sinking a British sub during a bombing raid. Disgraced, Rick has no one to turn to, save for sympathetic barmaid Mona (Patricia Plunkett). With her help, the pilot is Read More

The Huggetts Abroad

Synopsis: The Huggets Abroad is the last and most contrived of Britain's "Huggetts" film series. The titular family members, first introduced in the 1947 film Holiday Camp, are played by Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw and Petula Clark (the same). Mr. Huggett feels he's in a rut, so he quits his Read More

Here Come the Huggetts

Actors: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Jane Hylton, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark

Synopsis: The fictional Hugget Family makes the first of three film appearances in this domestic comedy from Great Britain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bond Street

Actors: Adrianne Allen, Hazel Court, Joan Dowling, Leslie Dwyer, Derek Farr

Synopsis: This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical" British thoroughfare. The Grand Hotel-like construction of the film allows for several colorful character vignettes. The "dramatis personae" includes an unpredictably Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by Read More

Vote for Huggett

Synopsis: In this comedy, the Huggett family patriarch decides to run for public office. His entire platform is built upon a promise to construct a war memorial. Unfortunately, he wants to build it on a parcel of his wife's land. She doesn't want anything there so her niece fakes her signature and the land Read More

Holiday Camp

Actors: John Blythe, Esma Cannon, Hazel Court, Jimmy Hanley, Dennis Harkin

Synopsis: Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for a successful B-movie series. The film takes place at a British summer resort, where various character types interact. A murderer on the loose invades the camp, but the Read More

Code of Scotland Yard

Actors: Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith, Manning Whiley

Synopsis: Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood film noir genre. Oscar Homolka plays a seemingly benign antique dealer who maintains a comfortable lifestyle by fencing stolen goods. Homolka's daughter (Muriel Pavlow), an Read More

Temptation Harbour

Actors: Margaret Barton, Kathleen Boutall, Marcel Dalio, Leslie Dwyer, Irene Handl

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later finds $20,000 floating in the harbor. The trouble begins when he decides to take the money and leave town with his daughter and a gold digger. The killer is in hot pursuit Read More

I See a Dark Stranger

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley

Synopsis: I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Read More

Wanted for Murder

Actors: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground. She's delayed by the train for a meeting with her friend Victor Colebrooke (Eric Portman) at Hampstead Heath; the two of them take a liking to each other while she's trying to Read More

Great Day

Actors: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans, Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis: American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the Anglo-American coproduction Great Day. As the villagers prepare for their prestigious guest, all sorts of internal squabbles and personal foibles rise to the surface. The story Read More

Meet Sexton Blake

Synopsis: The title character in Meet Sexton Blake was created in 1893 as a way of cashing in on the immense popularity of Sherlock Holmes. This 1944 film opens with a bizarre and intriguing murder. Late one night along the London waterfront, a man is desperately tugging at the hand of another man -- a Read More

It Happened One Sunday

Actors: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher, Judy Kelly

Synopsis: The inspiration for this British seriocomedy was Victor Skutezky's stage play She Met Him One Sunday. "She" is Moya Malone (Barbara White), an Irish maid living in Liverpool. "He" is Tom Stevens (Robert Beatty), a Canadian sailor. That "one Sunday" is a busy one, encompassing a few romantic Read More

The Randolph Family

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding, Sr., Celia Johnson, Helen Haye, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Released in the US as The Randolph Family, Dear Octopus was based on the internationally popular play by Dodie Smith. The story is motivated by the Golden Wedding anniversary of Charles and Dora Randolph (Frederick Leister, Helen Haye). As the relatives gather, each reveals his or her personal Read More

Much Too Shy

Synopsis: A bashful artist finds all kinds of trouble in this comedy. A handyman by profession, the shy fellow loves to paint, but can only paint the heads of his models as he is too embarrassed to render the rest of their nude forms. The portraits are very good, and later, in a commercial art class, other Read More

In Which We Serve

Actors: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey

Synopsis: Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy 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

The Ghost Train

Synopsis: In this thriller, a group of stranded passengers are terrified by the weird tales of a stationmaster who tells them of the "ghost train" that rumbles down the darkened tracks. It turns out that the phantasmical locomotive is very real and is used by a gang of arms smugglers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All 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

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

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 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

The Flying Squad

Synopsis: Filmed in England, Flying Squad was the final effort of veteran silent-film director Herbert (Peter Pan) Brenon. The script was based on a popular play by suspense specialist Edgar Wallace, adapted by the late Wallace's son. Carol Goodner stars as the sister of a young man who was murdered by drug Read More

They Came by Night

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, George Merritt, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill. When a valuable ruby is stolen right from under his nose, Fothergill offers to help Scotland Yard capture the crooks. To do this, he pretends to go crooked himself, the better Read More

Tilly of Bloomsbury

Synopsis: In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her mother owns a boarding house and at first, the socialite turns up his blue-blooded nose at them. But then he begins learning more about their lives and gradually changes his Read More

Who Is Guilty?

Synopsis: In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a detective, who is to retire the next day, to solve the puzzle. Three people confess the crime. The late count's wife is the daughter of one of them. Apparently the count had abused Read More

Home from Home

Synopsis: In this comedy, an inmate relishes the peace and solitude of prison life as it affords him a welcome escape from his nagging wife. He tries everything he can do to stay there, including committing more crimes, but it is to no avail: they release him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Killed the Count

Actors: Syd Walker, Ben Lyon, Terence de Marney, Barbara Blair, Athole Stewart

Synopsis: The British I Killed the Count was based on the tricky stage puzzler by Alec Coppel. Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it more or less straight as Scotland Yard inspector Davidson, at present trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Mattoni (Leslie Perrins). The dilemma isn't that Read More

Discoveries

Synopsis: 1930s British radio show hits with its music acts are the focus of a rivalry between manufacturers who would like to sponsor the show. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Girl Must Live

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, George Robey, Hugh Sinclair

Synopsis: A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer). Both feel that they could live most comfortably off the money inherited by the Earl of Pangborough (Hugh Sinclair) a handsome but unworldly nobleman. Despite the most Read More

The Outsider

Actors: Mary Maguire, George Sanders, Barbara Blair, Peter Murray Hill, Frederick Leister

Synopsis: The Outsider was a remake of the 1931 British film of the same name; both films were based on a popular play by Dorothy Brandon. George Sanders, on leave from Hollywood service, plays an osteopath accused of being a fraud. His talents are put to the test when he treats the crippled daughter (Mary Maguire 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

Convict 99

Synopsis: Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job heading up a reform school for difficult boys. The agency mistakenly believes he is a Mr. Benjamin, a tough prison warden, and he is assigned to one of the country's nastiest 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

Almost a Gentleman

Actors: James Ellison, Helen Wood, Robert Kent, Leonard Penn, John Wray

Synopsis: Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when both are thrown in jail for vagrancy. Dan's legal problems are quickly done away with but his pretty boarder, Shirley Haddon (Helen Wood), is increasingly troubled by Dan's Read More

Aren't Men Beasts?

Actors: Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Billy Milton, June Clyde, Ruth Maitland

Synopsis: British groom-to-be Billy Milton is labelled a "beast" by French floozie Ellen Pollock as Milton marches down the aisle. The groom's father, Robertson Hare, endeavors to prove his son's innocence. Removing his trademarked monocle, Hare poses as the boy's maiden aunt to get the goods on Pollock. Read More

Wanted

Actors: ZaSu Pitts, Claude Dampier, Mark Daly, Norma Varden, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: In this comedy, a mild-mannered shipping clerk and his wife get into deep trouble after they are mistaken for jewel thieves by gangsters who want them to steal some valuable jewels. Despite the couple's protest, the crooks force them into pulling off the job during a ritzy party. While there, they Read More

The Tenth Man

Actors: John Lodge, Antoinette Cellier, Athole Stewart, Clifford Evans, Iris Hoey

Synopsis: A Somerset Maugham novel was the source of the British The Tenth Man. John Lodge plays George Winter, a self-made businessman who lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Whenever he meets a competitor who can't be bought, Winter destroys the man through methods both legal and Read More

Night Must Fall

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Merle Tottenham

Synopsis: Emlyn Williams' theatrical horror piece Night Must Fall was filmed by MGM without the usual studio-imposed happy ending. Robert Montgomery stars as Danny, a wickedly charming Irish bellhop who wins the confidence of an elderly invalid (Dame May Whitty). The old woman's niece (Rosalind Russell) is Read More

Everybody Dance

Synopsis: In this sentimental drama, a nightclub singer finds herself in charge of her late sister's children. To support them properly, she leaves the nightlife behind and takes the kids to a farm. Her manager, not anxious to lose his main source of income, tries to get her declared legally incompetent. Read More

Broken Blossoms

Actors: Dolly Haas, Arthur Margetson, C.V. France, Basil Radford, Edith Sharpe, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Sefton

Synopsis: This tragedy is a remake of D.W. Griffith's classic silent film. The story is based on "The Chink and the Child," a story by Thomas Burke that tells of the mystical romance between a Chinese fellow and a cockney lass who meet in London's slums. The young woman is seeking to escape her boozy and Read More

Line Engaged

Synopsis: In this mystery, a novelist whose latest book details the 'perfect murder,' finds himself accused of murdering the husband of the woman he loves--for real. He is accused by his own father. Later it is discovered that the real killer is the woman's mother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Defender

Actors: Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman, Arthur Margetson, Richard Bird

Synopsis: Matheson Lang stars as a brilliant British barrister, about to retire due to ill health. He reluctantly agrees to take on the case of a young man (Arthur Margetson) accused of murdering his mistress (Jeanne Stuart). The young man's wife (Margaret Bannerman) does not condone her husband's Read More

What Happened Then?

Synopsis: In this mystery, a sculptor is convicted of murder after the body of his guardian is discovered. The artist's fiancee doesn't believe he is guilty and begins investigating. She goes to the deceased's nephew for help. He says he will, but only if she will marry him. Later she learns that he has Read More

The Man from Toronto

Actors: Frederick Kerr, Ian Hunter, Margaret Yarde, Lawrence Hanray

Synopsis: In this romance, two people who have never met will inherit a million dollars if they marry each other. Neither is thrilled with the prospect, and the woman, to meet him, impersonates his new maid. Soon they fall in love for real. A lawyer mediates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ghoul

Actors: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernst Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell

Synopsis: The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his deathbed insists that he be buried with a rare jewel that was once part of an Oriental idol. It is Morant's belief that the gem will one day restore him to life, a contingency Read More

Hobson's Choice

Actors: Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell

Synopsis: Everyone remembers David Lean's near-perfect 1954 film version of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice -- but can the same be said for the first talkie version, filmed in 1931 (itself a remake of a 1920 silent)? James Harcourt stars as Hobson, a domineering, whiskey-loving bootmaker who Read More