Stewart GrangerFilmography

Born:: May 6, 1913 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British actor Stewart Granger, born James Stewart, studied acting at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art and began getting work as an extra in British films in 1933. In the late '30s he adopted his professional name to avoid confusion with recent star James Stewart. He worked with various...Read More

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Fine Gold

Actors: Jane Badler, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Fine Gold was originally made for cable television, where it first aired July 15, 1990. Ted Wass stars as a man falsely accused of embezzlement. In the months that follow, he loses his job, his family, and most of his reason for living. The second half of the film concerns itself with revenge and Read More

1990
Chameleons

Actors: Marcus Gilbert, Crystal Bernard, John Standing, Stewart Granger, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: Crystal Bernard stars as a woman searching for answers about her eccentric grandfather's death, in this made-for-television movie. Bernard stars as Shelly, a woman who wants to find out why her grand-dad was killed after she uncovers that he and a partner were secretly masquerading as Read More

1989
A Hazard of Hearts

Actors: Marcus Gilbert, Diana Rigg, Helena Bonham Carter

Synopsis: Hazard of Hearts was adapted for television from a 1948 bodice-ripper by Barbara Cartland. Set (where else?) in 1810 England, the film stars Helena Bonham Carter as the obligatory innocent young lass with a dynamite figure. Falling in love with a Rochester-like Marquis (Marcus Gilbert), Helena is Read More

1987
Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Garrick Dowhen

Synopsis: A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic ocean liner in 1938. In the course of a truly eventful sea voyage, a torrid romance developed between powerful American steel magnate Nick Burnham (Lee Horsley) and Liane Read More

1986
Hell Hunters

Actors: Stewart Granger, George Lazenby, Maud Adams, William Berger, Eduardo Conde

Synopsis: Stewart Granger plays a Joseph Mengele type in the grim Hell Hunters. Hiding out in jungles of South America, Granger plans to poison the population of Los Angeles as revenge for the toppling of the Third Reich. Nazi hunters Maud Adams and George Lazenby race against time to foil the old Nazi's Read More

1986
Murder, She Wrote: Paint Me a Murder

Synopsis: This time out, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is vacationing on an idyllic Mediterranean island, which is also the retreat of famous artist Diego Santana (Cesar Romero). The placid mood is shattered when an attempt is made on Santana's life. A second murder attempt, occurring at Santana's birthday Read More

1985
The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Stewart Granger, Catherine Oxenberg, Dana Wynter

Synopsis: The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana was one of two 1982 TV movies inspired by the 1981 wedding of the Prince of Wales--and, like the competing Charles and Diana: A Royal Love Story was all glitter and no substance. Christopher Baines plays Prince Charles like a Monty Python imitation, while Catherine Oxenberg Read More

1982
The Wild Geese

Actors: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger

Synopsis: The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys -- Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), Rafer Janders (Richard Harris Read More

1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles

Actors: Stewart Granger

Synopsis: This oft-filmed Conan Doyle story is given the TV-quickie treatment, with Stewart Granger as master sleuth Sherlock Holmes. The Great Detective is engaged to protect the life of Henry Baskerville, a young man whose life has been put in jeopardy, ostensibly by an ancient family curse. Holmes sends Read More

1972
The Trygon Factor

Actors: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Robert Morley, Cathleen Nesbitt, Brigitte Horney

Synopsis: A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector Cooper-Smith (Stewart Granger) ends up at the country manor of a respectable English family. Livia Emberday (Cathleen Nesbitt) is the mistress of the house who has turned to crime Read More

1969
Any Second Now

Actors: Stewart Granger

Synopsis: In his TV-movie debut, Stewart Granger plays a philandering photographer whose wealthy wife, Lois Nettleton, catches him in an adulterous situation. Not wishing to give up his cushy life style, Granger rigs a fatal automobile accident for Nettleton before she begins divorce proceedings. She Read More

1969
Das Geheimnis Der Gelben Moenche

8/10/67
Red-Dragon

Actors: Stewart Granger, Horst Frank, Suzanne Roquette

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, two FBI agents are on the trail of smugglers who have been selling electrical equipment to the enemy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
The Last Safari

Actors: Kaz Garas, Stewart Granger, Gabriella Licudi, Johnny Sekka, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: Gilchrist (Stewart Granger) is a big-game hunter who loses his courage after his friend is killed by a charging elephant. Casey (Kaz Garas) is an American tourist who hires Gilchrist to guide him on a safari. Gilchrist refuses to take the job but elects to track down the animal in an attempt to Read More

1967
A-009 Missione Hong Kong

Synopsis: Stewart Granger and Rosanna Schiaffano play CIA agents in this multnational espionager. Assigned to the Hong Kong beat, Hero and Heroine seek out a smuggling operation. The booty consists of electrical components for a new superweapon. The revelation of the head man behind the smugglers will be a Read More

1967
Requiem Per un Agente Segreto

Synopsis: In this James Bond knock-off from the 1960s, a veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy's of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/15/66
A Target for Killing

Synopsis: How to Kill a Lady is an Bond-style thriller with an international cast. The lady in question is toothsome Molly Peters. The killers are members of Lebanese crime syndicate who'd like to claim Molly's millions. Stewart Granger is the secret agent assigned to protect the girl from harm, while Read More

1966
Die Hölle von Manitoba

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marianne Koch, Hans Nielsen, Wolfgang Lukschy, Gerard Tichy

Synopsis: In this western, the town of Glory prepares to stage its annual Founder's Day showdown on Main Street. The guest gunslingers this year are two notorious gunmen. Unfortunately, the festivities are halted when a drifter rides to town claiming that he has killed one of the gunmen. The town fathers Read More

1966
Unter Geiern

Actors: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Elke Sommer, Götz George, Walter Barnes

Synopsis: Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders from town to town doing the "Lone Ranger" bit. The hellcat of the title is Elke Sommer Read More

3/4/65
Killer's Carnival

Synopsis: Three espionage stories with drug smuggling, political assassination and secret agents set in Rome, Vienna and Brazil. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1965
Old Surehand

Actors: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Leticia Roman, Larry Pennell, Mario Girotti

Synopsis: This colorful western saga finds Old Surehand (Stewart Granger) and his comical sidekick Old Wabble (Paddy Fox) hot on the trail of a cold-blooded murderer. His brother has been killed, and the heroic duo sets out to bring the varmint to justice. Meanwhile, Surehand must mediate the trouble Read More

1965
Der Ölprinz

Actors: Stewart Granger, Pierre Brice, Macha Meril, Harald Leipnitz, Mario Girotti

Synopsis: In this western, the sixth in the European-produced "Winnetou" series, Old Surehand and his Apache sidekick Winnetou endeavor to capture the outlaws who killed their friend the wagon master. To do so, Winnetou volunteers to guide the leaderless wagon train across the treacherous Indian land Read More

1965
The Crooked Road

Actors: Stewart Granger, Robert Ryan

Synopsis: This British programmer was filmed on the cheap in Yugoslavia, with an American star, Robert Ryan, to secure U.S. playdates. Ryan plays an American journalist who views with alarm as a dictator (Stewart Granger) runs roughshod over the citizens of an unnamed Balkan country. The news hound puts Read More

1965
Das Geheimnis der Drei Dschunken

Actors: Stewart Granger, Rosanna Schiaffino, Harald Juhnke, Paul Klinger, Margit Saad

Synopsis: Michael Scott (Stewart Granger) is an American Secret Service agent sent to Hong Kong to combat a gang of international smugglers who are bringing electronic devices into the country. He hooks up a female agent who has infiltrated the gang as a secretary to escape danger in this routine spy Read More

1965
The Secret Invasion

Actors: Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Edward Byrnes, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide Read More

1964
Il Giorno Piu Corto Commedia Umoristica

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Synopsis: Somewhere there is someone who finds the lunatic Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia funny; most filmgoers watch in stony silence, longing for Jerry Lewis to make a comeback. In The Shortest Day, F and C play a pair of zany World War I conscripts who cause more trouble on Read More

2/14/63
Commando

Synopsis: In this action drama, set during the Algerian War, 1961, a Foreign Legion captain must stage a daring raid to kidnap a rebel leader. They are successful, but then the helicopter that was to pick them up is shot down. The men are forced to do an overland trek with their prisoner. Many of them do Read More

11/14/62
Sodom and Gomorrah

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Stanley Baker, Anouk Aimée, Rossana Podestà

Synopsis: This 153-minute Biblical epic about salt and sin is directed by Robert Aldrich and has enough dynamic interactions between its chief protagonists to sustain interest in-between climactic scenes. Stewart Granger is Lot, the Hebrew leader who takes his people to camp in the Valley of Jordan only to Read More

10/4/62
Lo Spadaccino di Siena

Actors: Stewart Granger, Sylva Koscina, Christine Kaufmann, Riccardo Garrone, Tullio Carminatti

Synopsis: This is a typical costume drama and adventure story with plenty of fencing, and swash and buckle but not much ingenuity. Based on a story by Anthony Marshall, a swordsman by the name of Thomas Stanwood (Stewart Granger) finds himself fending off a multitude of attackers before he is captured and Read More

1962
The Secret Partner

Actors: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee, Hugh Burden, Lee Montague

Synopsis: In this routine mystery story by director Basil Dearden, someone who favors mysteries and comedies, Stewart Granger is John Brent, a VIP in a shipping company with a prison record behind him. When a quarter of million dollars goes missing from the company's vault, he is the primary suspect of Read More

1961
North to Alaska

Actors: John Wayne, Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, Capucine

Synopsis: Those familiar only with Johnny Horton's song hit North to Alaska might not be aware that the song came equipped with a movie. John Wayne and Stewart Granger star as a couple of lucky miners in Alaska Territory during the '98 gold rush. Since the Duke is the only man he can trust, Granger sends Read More

1960
The Whole Truth

Actors: Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna Maria Canale, Michaél Shillo

Synopsis: In this mystery, a movie producer gets bored with his wife and begins an affair with a fiery actress. In the end, he jilts his mistress and returns to his wife. The trouble begins when someone stabs the actress and he is labelled the prime suspect by a detective. Later the producer discovers that Read More

1958
Harry Black and the Tiger

Actors: Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush, Anthony Steel, I.S. Johar, Martin Stephens

Synopsis: The mysterious Indian jungle provides the setting for this adventure where a one-legged hunter pursues a terrifying tiger, a man-eater. On the hunt, the man encounters the cowardly fellow who caused him to lose his leg in a POW camp. Together they face the snarling, cornered jungle cat. Again, the Read More

1958
Gun Glory

Actors: Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming, Chill Wills, Steve Rowland, James Gregory

Synopsis: Originally titled Man of the West (the name of the Philip Yordan novel on which it was based), Gun Glory was rechristened to avoid confusion with a like-vintage Gary Cooper vehicle of the same title. Stewart Granger plays gunslinger/gambler Tom Early, who tries a bit too late to make amends for Read More

1957
The Last Hunt

Actors: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan, Debra Paget, Russ Tamblyn

Synopsis: Set in the West of the late 19th century, Richard Brooks' film stars Robert Taylor as Charles Gilson, a brutal buffalo hunter who kills purely for sport and enjoyment. Stewart Granger portrays Sandy McKenzie, a former hunter on whom Gilson is seeking revenge. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
The Little Hut

Actors: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, David Niven, Walter Chiari, Finlay Currie

Synopsis: Adapted by F. Hugh Herbert from Andre Roussin's risque stage farce that has become a staple of community theatres, The Little Hut is totally reliant upon the charms of stars Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven. Granger is a businessman who is too busy to pay attention to wife Gardner (is Read More

1956
Bhowani Junction

Actors: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews

Synopsis: Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for independence from Britain, the film begins with Gardner returning to her native land after spending several years in England. Her true loyalties, and her own sense of who she Read More

1956
Footsteps in the Fog

Actors: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers, Finlay Currie, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: Footsteps in the Fog is a cat-and-mouse Victorian melodrama in the grand tradition. Jean Simmons plays scheming servant girl Lily Watkins, who was hired by sinister nobleman Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) and his ailing wife. The wife dies of "natural causes," but Lily knows better, and uses this Read More

1955
Moonfleet

Actors: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley

Synopsis: Director Fritz Lang was attracted to the British period piece Moonfleet because of the relatively unregenerate nature of its greedy "hero" Stewart Granger. Young Jon Whitely, who is in the legal custody of Granger, learns that he is to inherit a valuable diamond. Hoping to get his own hands on the Read More

1955
Beau Brummell

Actors: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley, James Donald

Synopsis: As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell. Granger plays the famed 18th-century dandy and social arbiter who rises from poverty to become the adviser and severest critic of the Prince of Wales (marvelously portrayed Read More

1954
Green Fire

Actors: Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly, Paul Douglas, John Ericson, Murvyn Vye

Synopsis: Set in the coffee fields of Colombia, Green Fires stars Stewart Granger and Grace Kelly. Granger plays emerald prospector Rian X. Mitchell, who intends to explore an old deserted mine despite the protests of his partner Vic Leonard Paul Douglas and the threat of death at the hands of local bandit Read More

1954
Salome

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Stewart Granger, Judith Anderson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Badel, Charles Laughton

Synopsis: "Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a slogan which became laughable whenever a radio announcer would mispronounce Salome as "salami." Using the very sketchy Biblical story of the death of John the Baptist as its Read More

1953
All the Brothers Were Valiant

Actors: Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Previously adapted to film in 1923, Ben Ames Williams' rousing sea adventure All the Brothers Were Valiant was given the prestige MGM treatment in 1953. Robert Taylor and Stewart Granger star as seafaring siblings Joel and Mark Shore. When Mark disappears during a whaling expedition, Joel and his Read More

1953
Young Bess

Actors: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh

Synopsis: This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of England's eventual Queen Elizabeth I. It's told in flashback style, starting with the horrible day when King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) sends away the future queen, young Read More

1953
The Wild North

Actors: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse, Morgan Farley

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Canada, The Wild North stars Stewart Granger as renegade trapper Jules Vincent. Forced to kill in self-defence, Vincent hides out in the wilderness, obliging RCMP constable Pedley (Wendell Corey) to chase after him in some of the most treacherous territory in Northern Read More

1952
The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel. Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Read More

1952
Scaramouche

Actors: Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: This delightful adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling novel stars Stewart Granger as Andre Moreau, an 18th-century French nobleman who is publicly humiliated by the Marquis de Maynes (Mel Ferrer). Challenged to a sword duel by the Marquis, Andre, who knows nothing about fencing, runs away Read More

1952
Soldiers Three

Actors: Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Allegedly based on a Rudyard Kipling novel, this draws most of its inspiration from the 1939 film made of Kipling's narrative poem Gunga Din. Stewart Granger, Robert Newton and Cyril Cusack play three boisterous English soldiers stationed on the Northern India frontier. Walter Pidgeon and David Niven Read More

1951
The Light Touch

Actors: Stewart Granger, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, George Sanders, Kurt Kasznar, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Italy, The Light Touch served as a showcase for MGM's newest female star Pier Angeli. The title refers to the nimble-fingered technique utilized by art thief Sam Conride (Stewart Granger). Sam is a cog in the wheel of the operation controlled by illegal art peddler Felix Read More

1951
King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas, Lowell Gilmore

Synopsis: MGM's expensive remake of the 1937 British adventure film King Solomon's Mines stars Stewart Granger as fearless-explorer Alan Quartermaine, and Deborah Kerr as the spunky Irish lass who hires him on to locate her husband. Kerr's spouse has disappeared somewhere in Africa while attempting to Read More

1950
Adam and Evelyne

Actors: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Edwin Styles, Raymond Young, Helen Cherry

Synopsis: Adam and Evelyne stars Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons, who were husband and wife in the 1950s. Granger plays a "sang froid" gambler with little room for emotional entanglements in his life. When his best friend dies, Granger agrees to adopt the friend's daughter. She grows up to be Jean Simmons; Granger Read More

1949
Woman Hater

Actors: Stewart Granger, Jeanne de Casalis, Ronald Squire, Mary Jerrold

Synopsis: A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor vows to disprove the star's Garboesque claim that she wants to be alone. Saying that all women are alike, he sets out to seduce her. First he poses as a Realtor and offers to Read More

1949
Blanche Fury

Actors: Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough, Walter Fitzgerald, Suzanne Gibbs, Maurice Denham

Synopsis: Blanche Fury combined two elements that were surefire moneymakers in postwar Britain: a brooding, Gothic-novel storyline and the dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger. Heroine Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) is an impoverished governess who marries into wealth and sets herself up as the mistress of a Read More

1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers

Actors: Stewart Granger, Joan Greenwood, Flora Robson, Françoise Rosay, Anthony Quayle, Frederick [Fritz] Valk

Synopsis: This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing Studios, but it proved to be such a box office disappointment that Ealing never attempted such a lavish costume drama again. Sophie Dorothea (Joan Greenwood) is a young woman Read More

1948
Captain Boycott

Actors: Eddie Byrne, Maureen Delaney, Maurice Denham, Ian Fleming, Liam Gaffney

Synopsis: Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of Erne. The impoverished farmers conspire to banish him from the area. When Boycott learns of this, he tries Read More

1947
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

1947
Caravan

Actors: Anne Crawford, Arthur Goullet, Stewart Granger, Gerard Heinz, Robert Helpmann

Synopsis: In this British melodrama, an indigent writer suffers from amnesia, forgets that he is in love with an aristocratic lady, and instead falls in love with a seductive gypsy. The rich girl's father is enraged by her lover's betrayal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1946
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

1946
Madonna of the Seven Moons

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville

Synopsis: A classic in gothic-romantic excess, Madonna of Seven Moons was one of the most successful British films of its genre. Though she doesn't know it at first, young convent-bred Rosalinda (Phyllis Calvert) has been born under a curse: before her life comes to a close, she will be wife, mother and Read More

1945
Waterloo Road

Actors: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Beatrice Varley

Synopsis: This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover. Jim Colter (John Mills) has joined the services, leaving his wife Tillie (Joy Shelton) with his mother (Beatrice Varley) and sister. Tillie is lonely, meets Ted Purvis (Stewart Granger Read More

1945
Love Story

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Tom Walls, Moira Lister, Walter Hudd, Lawrence Hanray

Synopsis: No relation to the 1970 box-office blockbuster of the same name, the 1944 British film Love Story was originally released in the US as The Lady Surrenders. Margaret Lockwood stars as one of those brilliant but troubled concert pianists, so beloved of British wartime filmgoers. Knowing that she Read More

1944
Man of Evil

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent

Synopsis: In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her family's home in London. However, bad luck awaits her at nearly every turn. After her father is killed in a fist fight by the aristocratic but dastardly Lord Manderstoke (James Mason Read More

1944
The Man in Grey

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Stewart Granger, Raymond Lovell

Synopsis: A set of flashbacks to 19th century London provide the action in this British wartime film, in which a wealthy girl (Phyllis Calvert) becomes friends with a young waif (Margaret Lockwood) while at school. The waif later becomes a governess for the girl, but betrays their relationship by having an Read More

1943
Under Secret Orders

Actors: John Loder, Dita Parlo, Claire Luce, Gyles Isham

Synopsis: The oft-filmed story of the WW I espionage agent known as "Fraulein Doktor" was given another go-round in the British Under Secret Orders. Dita Parlo plays Anne-Marie Lesser, a German secret agent who undermines the Allied cause at the expense of her own happiness. Top billing is bestowed upon Erich von Stroheim Read More

1943
The Lamp Still Burns

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

1943
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

1943
Secret Mission

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

1942
Convoy

Actors: Clive Brook, John Clements, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Penelope Dudley-Ward

Synopsis: Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing convoy duty in the north seas. A German battleship targets the cruiser for a deadly game of cat and mouse. Just when it seems that Brook and his crew will be blown out of the Read More

1940
So This Is London

Actors: Alfred Drayton, Robertson Hare, Ethel Revnell, Gracie West, Berton Churchill

Synopsis: This comedy is based on George M. Cohan's popular play and centers on an American businessman and his family who journey to England to meet a prominent English lord. It is an important meeting complicated by the fact that neither men care for each other's nationality. Unfortunately, their children Read More

1939
Mademoiselle Docteur

1938
Give Her a Ring

Actors: Wendy Barrie, Erik Rhodes, Zelma O'Neal

Synopsis: A mid-1930s precursor to the 1956 Broadway musical Bells are Ringing, Give Her a Ring concerns a group of melodic telephone operators who get involved in the lives of their clients. One of these is Karen Swenson (Wendy Barrie), whose inability to mind her own business gets her in all sorts of Read More

1936
Over the Garden Wall

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young man visiting the ultra-modern estate of his aunt falls in love with the old-fashioned, stuffy neighbor's niece. The young lovers encounter trouble, as none of their relatives approve of the match. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1934
A Southern Maid

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the escapades of two Spanish couples. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933

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