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Actors: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, George Baker, Alan White
Synopsis: Anna Neagle steps down from her expensive musical extravaganzas to play a recognizable human being in No Time for Tears. She plays the dedicated director of a busy children's hospital, battling red tape, family hassles and public indifference. A large and stellar cast appears in this episodic Read More
Actors: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston, Keye Luke
Synopsis: The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The British government tries to reclaim the Amethyst, only to run up against a Great Wall of Red bureaucracy and propaganda. It is up to Lieutenant Commander Kearns (Richard Todd Read More
Actors: Patricia Laffan, Hugh McDermott
Synopsis: In this low-budget British science fiction tale (which, not surprisingly, has gained a cult following), Nyah (Patricia Laffan), a statuesque, leather-clad woman from another world, lands near a small Scottish town with her trusty robot in tow. It seems that Mars has recently seen a dramatic drop Read More
Actors: David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann, A.E. Matthews, Charles Victor
Synopsis: Made in Heaven is predicated on one of Britain's most curious annual traditions. During the yearly Dunmow Flitch, a side of bacon is awarded to any married couple who can prove at a public trial that their union has been happy and argument-free for a full year. Among the contestants depicted Read More
Actors: Derek Bond, Frederick Burtwell, O.B. Clarence, George Curzon, Derrick de Marney
Synopsis: An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama, also known as Uncle Silas. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: William Hartnell, Carol Raye, John Ruddock, Sophie Stewart, Walter Fitzgerald
Synopsis: In this drama, a farmer marries an uptown chorus girl and tries to help her settle down to the simplicity of farm living by giving her a little heifer. Unfortunately, she does not settle down right away and begins spending their money so freely that the farmer soon loses everything. When it looks Read More
Actors: Rosamund John, Godfrey Tearle, Stewart Granger, Sophie Stewart, Margaret Vyner
Synopsis: Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals-and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses. Rosamund John is a tower of Read More
Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, Laraine Day, Henry Hull
Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Howard Spring, My Son My Son stars Brian Aherne as a self-made success determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son (Louis Hayward) grows up spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him. The limit Read More
Actors: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson, H.B. Warner
Synopsis: Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of the Germans. Such a film was British producer Herbert Wilcox's Hollywood production Nurse Edith Cavell, in which Wilcox's future wife Anna Neagle portrayed the titular Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, set in 1842 England, an independent young woman living with a minister and his wife defies them and goes against their wishes to see Queen Victoria in Edinburgh. While there, she falls in love with a lieutenant and finds her real mother, an actress. With the latter encounter, the Read More
Synopsis: In this WWI drama, a group of captured British soldiers imprisoned in a German POW camp attempt to escape by building a tunnel beneath the camp. One of the prisoners is unable to stand the strain and lets the cat out of the bag, forcing the others to leave ahead of time. The pressure increases Read More
Actors: Barry Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason, Francis Lister
Synopsis: The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape from the dreaded guillotine in this sequel to 1934's The Scarlet Pimpernel. To do so Robespierre kidnaps the Pimpernel's wife and takes her to France. Unfortunately, he is Read More
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
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Sophie Stewart
Synopsis: Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a swashbuckling adventure that takes place in the France of Louis XIII. Conrad Veidt stars as Gil de Berault, quick with his sword yet set for execution. But right before his sentence Read More
Actors: Raymond Massey, Cedric Hardwicke, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart
Synopsis: H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future -- and the screenplay (in conjunction with Lajos Biro) of this epic science fiction tale, but it was producer Alexander Korda who framed the terms on which it is presented Read More
Actors: Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson, Ernst Thesiger, Robert Cochran
Synopsis: As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers in this fantasy based on an H.G. Wells story. Roland Young stars as George McWhirter Fotheringay, whose new powers are virtually limitless; choosing Read More
Actors: Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Clare Greet, Eric Portman
Synopsis: Dear old Tod Slaughter serves up another chop-licking melodrama with Murder in the Red Barn. Based on a barnstorming, fact-based American play, the film features the redoubtable Mr. Slaughter as Squire William Corder, potential defiler of the virtue of virginal Maria Marten (Sophia Stewart). When 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
Synopsis: In this romantic melodrama a young composer falls for a pretty woman who is unfortunately, betrothed to a rich man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
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