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1. The Dark Tower (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom
Votes: 444
2. Appointment with Crime (1946)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: William Hartnell, Robert Beatty, Joyce Howard, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 344
3. The Informer (1929)
83 min | Drama
In 1920s Ireland, an IRA man betrays his best friend to the police, mistakenly believing him to be his mistress's lover.
Director: Arthur Robison | Stars: Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord
Votes: 290
4. Atlantic (1929)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Franklin Dyall, Madeleine Carroll, John Stuart, Ellaline Terriss
Votes: 281
5. The Blue Parrot (1953)
69 min | Crime, Drama
A London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill, Ballard Berkeley, Richard Pearson
Votes: 211
6. The Spell of Amy Nugent (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Horror
A young man's fiancée dies after contracting a terminal illness and, in his efforts to contact her, he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Derek Farr, Vera Lindsay, Hay Petrie, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 199
7. Beyond the Curtain (1960)
88 min | Drama
Karin finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight on which she is stewardess, is forced down. She is then used by the State police to find her wanted brother, so when Jim arrives to get her back, he has to watch his back.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim
Votes: 178
8. While I Live (1947)
85 min | Thriller
25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her composer sister and concludes she has returned, reincarnated, in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Carol Raye, Patricia Burke
Votes: 168
9. Those People Next Door (1953)
78 min | Comedy
During the war, a titled family objects to their squadron leader son being engaged to the daughter of a working class factory laborer.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson
Votes: 167
10. Escape Me Never (1935)
95 min | Drama
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Leon Quartermaine
Votes: 166
11. Candles at Nine (1944)
75 min | Mystery
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew, Joss Ambler
Votes: 144
12. Dangerous Cargo (1954)
61 min | Crime, Drama
A gang tries to rob a cargo of bullion from an airport.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Susan Stephen, Jack Watling, Karel Stepanek, Richard Pearson
Votes: 138
13. The Echo Murders (1945)
75 min | Thriller
The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling, Julien Mitchell
Votes: 135
14. Green Fingers (1947)
83 min | Drama
A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 126
15. Delayed Action (1954)
58 min | Mystery
A destitute, suicidal man is offered a contract for 18 months to act as a front for an unscrupulous businessman, with his life being forfeit. He carries out his agreement, also writing a ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton
Votes: 114
16. Meet Sexton Blake! (1945)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Dennis Arundell, John Varley
Votes: 104
17. The Agitator (1945)
85 min | Drama
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: William Hartnell, Mary Morris, John Laurie, Moore Marriott
Votes: 103
18. Command Performance (1937)
84 min | Drama
1937. A renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) and Lilli Palmer star in this romantic musical. Also stars Finlay Currie.
Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Arthur Tracy, Lilli Palmer, Mark Daly, Finlay Currie
Votes: 102
19. This Was Paris (1942)
Approved | 77 min | War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, Robert Morley
Votes: 100
20. Headline (1943)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: David Farrar, Anne Crawford, John Stuart, Antoinette Cellier
Votes: 83
21. Old Mother Riley, Headmistress (1950)
75 min | Comedy
Daphne Snowdrop Bluebell Riley "Arthur Lucan" gets fired from her job at the Black and White Laundry by manageress Miss Chester "Myrette Morven" for over-starching a man's shirt, shrinking ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Willer Neal, Cyril Smith
Votes: 74
22. Old Mother Riley's New Venture (1949)
69 min | Comedy
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Chili Bouchier, Willer Neal
Votes: 73
23. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
24. The Love Storm (1931)
62 min | Drama
A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Fay Compton, Frank Harvey, Ian Hunter, Edmund Willard
Votes: 63
25. Three Men in a Boat (1933)
54 min | Comedy
The comic adventures of three friends and a dog when they take a boating holiday on the River Thames.
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: William Austin, Edmund Breon, Billy Milton, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 52
26. When Knights Were Bold (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, Garry Marsh, Kate Cutler
Votes: 50
27. Millions (1936)
70 min | Comedy
Financier Otto Forbes threatens to disinherit his feckless son Jimmy, who then tries to pass off an aspiring composer's work as his own.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Richard Hearne, Stuart Robertson
Votes: 33
28. Potiphar's Wife (1931)
79 min | Drama, Romance
Lady Diana attempts to seduce her young chauffeur only to later charge him with assaulting her.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Nora Swinburne, Laurence Olivier, Norman McKinnel, Guy Newall
Votes: 26
29. Patrol Car (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Dramatization of murder investigations and other criminal cases that Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian, a real-life Scotland Yard Inspector and the host of the show, worked on.
Stars: Bruce Seton, Robert Raglan, Philip Dale, Jack Melford
Votes: 23
30. Shadows of the Underworld (1939)
86 min | Comedy, Mystery
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy
Votes: 21
31. The Greenwood Tree (1929)
60 min | Drama
A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Marguerite Allan, Peggie Robb-Smith, John Batten, Nigel Barrie
Votes: 15
32. Two Worlds (1930)
95 min | War, Drama
An old Jew is forced to hied the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Norah Baring, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Randle Ayrton
Votes: 13
33. A Royal Divorce (1938)
85 min | Drama, History
The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Pierre Blanchar, Frank Cellier, Carol Goodner
Votes: 12
34. Her Three Bachelors (1953)
75 min | Comedy
Three bachelors raise a baby who grows into an eligible young woman.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Sloane, Peter Hammond
Votes: 8
35. My Lucky Star (1933)
63 min | Comedy
A shop-girl posing as a film star loves a porter who is posing as an artist.
Directors: Louis Blattner, John Harlow | Stars: Florence Desmond, Oscar Asche, Charlie Naughton, Jimmy Gold
36. Suicide Legion (1939)
54 min | Drama
An Italian officer marries an Austrian girl but their happiness is blighted by the outbreak of the First World War. She leaves him when he is forced to shoot her brother for spying, but they are reunited after the war.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Tullio Carminati, Lilli Palmer, John Garrick, Geraldine Hislop
37. Phototone Reel #11 (1928)
9 min | Short, Music
Songs: "La Provinciana" "La Violetera" "Halfway to Heaven"
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Miguel Galvan, Gloria Maravillas
38. Phototone Reel #6 (1928)
9 min | Short, Music
A xylophonist plays "Virginia."
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Teddy Brown, Pat Kendall, Terry Kendall
40. Master and Man (1934)
54 min | Comedy
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Wallace Lupino, Barry Lupino, Gus McNaughton, Faith Bennett
41. Phototone Reel #1 (1928)
9 min | Short, Music
A xylophonist plays "Dancing Tambourines." A contralto sings "Love's Old Sweet Song."
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Teddy Brown, Ethel Hook
42. Phototone Reel #9 (1928)
10 min | Short, Music
Director: John Harlow | Stars: The Fayre Sisters, Ord Hamilton
44. Phototone Reel #5 (1928)
10 min | Short, Music
Song: "Melodious Melodies." A violinist plays "Czardas."
Director: John Harlow | Stars: The Four Admirals, Albert Sandler
45. Bagged (1934)
40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Wallace Lupino, Barry Lupino, Gus McNaughton, Syd Crossley
46. Phototone Reel #12 (1928)
9 min | Short, Music
Songs: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" "La Cumparsita" "Nobody Knows"
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Camaro & His Band, Casado de Vinaran, Orloff de Vinaran, Frisco
47. Phototone Reel #3 (1928)
12 min | Short, Music
A accordionist plays "Lost Chord." "Song Melody and a Piano."
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ord Hamilton, Herschel Henlere
48. Phototone Reel #10 (1928)
10 min | Short, Music
Songs: "Pagliacci" "Don't Be Like That" "Drinking Song"
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Miguel Galvan, Emmanuel List, Tino Pattiera
49. Phototone Reel #2 (1928)
10 min | Short, Music
A violinist plays "Schubert's Serenade." A saxophonist plays "At Dawning."
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Albert Sandler, Al Starita
50. Song Birds (1933)
36 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Tramps at a Christmas party cure a drunken host.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Barry Lupino, Wallace Lupino, Gus McNaughton