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- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret JohnstonDulcie GrayKieron MooreTwo poor sisters inherit a giant villa from their uncle, along with his custodian Salvatore who charms his way into their lives and marries one of them.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsMichael MedwinFrank HawkinsWinifred MelvilleDanny Cruff returns home years after his father was wrongly accused and hanged for murder. But he can't escape his past.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- DirectorAlexander KordaStarsPaulette GoddardMichael WildingDiana WynyardA prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsStewart GrangerKathleen RyanCecil ParkerIn 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
- DirectorRalph SmartStarsChips RaffertyJohn FernsideStan TolhurstIn Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
- DirectorCecil MuskStarsJames KenneyFlorence StephensonGeorge StephensonAn excellent swimmer, Michael Scott is chosen to represent his school at a swimming competition but his nerves unfortunately fail him and he does not stand on the podium. His parents try to comfort him but in vain. His mother, a former circus artist, then urges him to accept an invitation to spend a month at the big top where she once worked. Mrs Prada, Mrs. Scott's former partner, has indeed invited the boy to join her and her two children and to share their lives during this time. Michael finally accepts and soon makes friends with Florence and George. Brother and sister are currently training for a funambulist act. Interested in their specialty, Michel starts learning how to walk on a tightrope too.
- DirectorWalter C. MycroftStarsTerence AlexanderMolly WeirOlivia BarleyBiopic of Robbie Burns with a lot of Scottish singing. Heavy on narrative.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsRichard AttenboroughBarry K. BarnesSheila SimA London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsEric PortmanGreta GyntDennis PriceA businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
- DirectorLionel TomlinsonStarsDon StannardElsa TeeVeronica RoseThere's a death by poisoning at a Bond St. fashion house. The designer, the owner, the models and even the tea lady all have secrets to hide, but who's hiding a murderous one?
- DirectorAlfred TraversStarsHerbert LomPhyllis DixeyTerence de MarneyTwin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
- DirectorDarrell CatlingStarsBillie BrooksAnthony NewleyMichael McKeagDusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by lowlifes when the crate is put ashore.
- DirectorDigby SmithStarsBeresford EganMarianne StoneLily Lapidus
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsMichael RedgraveRosamund JohnBernard MilesA British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
- DirectorBasil DeardenStarsDavid FarrarGlynis JohnsMai ZetterlingA Royal Air Force pilot who was shot down during World War II returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsDouglas BarrBilly ThatcherBrian WeskeYoung Peter wants so badly to be an engineer that he starts to work on an invention. To raise money, he and his friend Tim wash windows. However, Tim needs the money they earn to go to Ireland to visit his grandfather who is very ill, so Peter gives him all the money they have made. Everything works out well for Peter in the end when he is praised as a young genius.
- DirectorDenis KavanaghStarsJoan VerneyMavis Cooper
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsRobert BeattyCarol RayeNova PilbeamA fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- DirectorKen AnnakinStarsFlora RobsonDennis PriceJack WarnerThe Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsAlastair SimFrederick PiperHarry FowlerA gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsMargaret LockwoodDennis PriceCecil ParkerStory of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsGoogie WithersJack WarnerJohn McCallumAn escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodPatricia RocDennis PriceIn 17th century England, Jassy is believed to be a witch because she has visions of approaching disasters. After Barney Hatton, an impoverished gent whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him get his property back - but at any price?
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsWilliam EytheStanley HollowayHazel CourtA young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He's hired to injure a leading politician and starts to get involved with a girl he uses to provoke the challenge. One newspaper, hostile to the politician, headlines the story of the impending duel asking who this Madame X is. Problem is, she's the daughter of the paper's proprietor.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsBurgess MeredithDulcie GrayMichael ShepleyPretty Molly Lucian (Barbara White) enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne (Burgess Meredith) in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam (Kieron Moore), who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison camp, Adam proves to be on the verge of severe schizophrenia. In his risky struggle to help Adam, Felix finds his none-too-functional home life deteriorating, and is unable to help himself as he helps others. The situation rushes headlong to a suspenseful climax.
- DirectorMontgomery TullyStarsPeter GravesJoyce HowardLeslie BanksThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsAnthony HulmeLesley OsmondFrank HawkinsA change in a will, a murder and a mysterious letter. The police look to a former cat burglar to aid them in the investigation.
- DirectorHarold HuthStarsAnne CrawfordRonald HowardFred GrovesAfter World War II is over, two Army pals take opposite paths in civilian life. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- DirectorHenry C. JamesJan SikorskiStarsPercy MarmontPat MainwaringA young couple tour Switzerland on their honeymoon.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsJohn MillsMartha ScottPatricia RocMayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsHugh WilliamsGreta GyntLeo BieberPhilippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonSimone SimonWilliam HartnellA signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which he later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsPatricia RocWill FyffeMaxwell ReedThe McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Mary Lawson is a Scottish orphan brought up in a convent who arrives on the weekly steamer to come and work as a servant to the Macraes. Mary is warned that she must have no dealings with the McFarish family but living a lonely life she encourages the friendship of Will McFarish, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorDerek N. TwistStarsSabuBibi FerreiraEsmond KnightA South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how this happened and how he got into trouble is told in flashback.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsAnna NeagleMichael WildingGladys YoungThe fortunes of an upper-class British family are followed through three wars and four generations.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsRobert MorleyFelix AylmerYvonne ArnaudGhosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch,
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsJames HarcourtPatric CurwenPeter BullGreat Britain a few years after World War 2. A writer is asked by the government to write a youth story to boost the morale of the youth after the difficult war years. At first he is a bit hesitant, but when the characters appear one by one, the story grows before his and our eyes. The boys set off, accompanied by an older man with a horse and trailer. What they don't know is that the man, posing as a market vendor, is actually out to expose a criminal. A charming youth film with little ambition, which also casually shows us the London of that time, both what survived and what was destroyed by the war.
- DirectorA. Barr-SmithStarsJohn TurnbullBeatrice CampbellHylton AllenThe Hangman Waits - This 1947 semi-documentary style featurette shot around the News of the World press, is a story of the attempts to apprehend the perpetrator of several grisly murders. A fascinating film produced by Five Star Films at Viking Studios Kensington using the mediums of the Press and the cinema. Good historic scenes of the News of the World Printing Plant and Victoria Station.
- DirectorJohn ArgyleStarsDinah SheridanJames EtheringtonMoore MarriottAn Irish singer marries the wrong man.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsDerek BondCedric HardwickeMary MerrallA young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- DirectorLewis GilbertStarsYvonne MarshMarian ChapmanKay HendersonA young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by Margot Fonteyn.
- DirectorCharles FrendRobert HamerStarsGoogie WithersJean KentJohn McCallumOn Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentJoan GreenwoodTold in flashback, this movie opens with a scene of a seventeen-year-old boy, Francis Andrews (Sir Richard Attenborough), being brutally lashed during a police interrogation, in which the boy thinks back to what placed him in this situation. He betrayed the crew of a smuggling ship whose master, Richard Carlyon (Sir Michael Redgrave), was also his guardian. Some of the smugglers are caught, but Carlyon escapes, and then begins his search for Andrews. Carlyon was quite fond of the boy, but knew him for a coward. Andrews seeks refuge in in the cottage of a girl named Elizabeth (Joan Greenwood), who urges him to give testimony against the smugglers in court. He summons his courage and does so. Carlyon, catching up with Andrews, recognizes this as an act of courage, and does not take revenge on him. Carlyon is eventually caught, but despite the police torture, Andrews does not identify him, and he goes free, while his guardian faces the gallows.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsEric PortmanSally GrayPatrick HoltAn attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsAnne CrawfordDennis PriceTom WallsTwo brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJohn MillsJoan GreenwoodEdward ChapmanWhen the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
- DirectorMario ZampiStarsJohn StuartOlga LindoHoward Marion-CrawfordA hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
- DirectorBrock WilliamsStarsPhyllis CalvertMichael RennieJohn McCallumA girl from an impoverished family is jilted by her rich fiancé, whose father doesn't approve. She decides to take revenge against them, and determines to let nothing or no one stop her from getting to the top.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsOscar HomolkaDerek FarrMuriel PavlowIn Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
- DirectorClarence ElderStarsNorman WilliamsChristopher CaponMurdo MorrisonSet on the rugged north-east coast of Scotland in the 1800s, Catrine is the wife of a dispossessed farmer who hates his new life as a herring fisherman. When he is press-ganged by the Royal Navy, she must face life without him.
- DirectorMaurice J. WilsonStarsWilfrid LawsonHelena PickardMaureen GlynneA London taxi driver finds a greyhound puppy and gives it to his daughter.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonRosamund JohnPamela MasonA British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodJoan GreenwoodIan HunterIn a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
- DirectorJack LeeStarsUrsula JeansJean SimmonsCecil ParkerA poor widow with two daughters augments her income by using her children to extort money. Visiting the houses of the rich people, they tell a sad story and beg for help. Then she meets a wealthy man who proposes marriage to her.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsSally GrayTrevor HowardGriffith JonesAfter WW2, former RAF airman Clem Morgan joins a gang of black-market smugglers-thieves but when a robbery goes wrong, Clem is caught , framed for a policeman's murder, and is sent to prison where he plots his escape and revenge.
- DirectorCharles FrankStarsJean SimmonsDerrick De MarneyKatina PaxinouFollowing her father's death, a teenage British heiress goes to live with her guardian uncle--who is broke and schemes to murder her for her inheritance.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsFrank RandleLeslie SaronyLeslie HolmesA music hall odd-job man, put-upon at work and at home, finally decides to assert himself when the theatre is threatened by secret redevelopment plans.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsPatricia RocRosamund JohnBill OwenEmotional strains of adoption. A young mother hands over her baby to foster parents, but struggles to let go emotionally. Her obsession affects the lives of those around her, including the child.
- DirectorJohn HarlowStarsTom WallsClifford EvansCarol Raye25 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.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsBarbara WhiteRonald SquireBrenda BruceLady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. On her way to marry her fiancé, she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsMadeleine CarrollIan HunterMichael RennieA Swiss town shelters French war orphans. When the children return home, one orphaned boy wants to stay. His Swiss foster parents argue whether to adopt him or send him back to France.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsDouglass MontgomeryJoyce HowardAdele DixonAn amnesiac lands up adopting his forgotten daughter from a previous girlfriend, a dancer, when his wife is unable to have children.
- DirectorStephen HarrisonStarsDirk BogardeElwyn Brook-JonesGeorge De WarfazTwo young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.
- StarsFrederick VictorDorothy BlackMegan LatimerA self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
- StarsPeter DimmockA series showing how to take care of a car.
- StarsBillie BakerDonald BarclayDennis BowenA memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, five Bad Kings, and two Genuine Dates.
- StarsAletha OrrJoyce HeronSally RogersWomen are trapped behind enemy lines in Bataan province during WWII. These brave nurses train to try to save hospital wounded in Corregidor prior to Douglas MacArthur's return before the infamous "Death March". This is a all female cast and all have to face war's horrors in its most personal loss.
- DirectorTeddy BairdStarsHarry RéeJacqueline NearneTeddy BairdDocudrama showing the work of British agents with the French "resistance" during the war, acted by actual agents. Includes details of their training, tactics and sabotage activities.
- StarsMarian SpencerIrmgard SpolianskyPatricia HilliardMadame Ranevsky is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- StarsSydney ArnoldVivienne BurgessRichard CaldicotThe story of the Pegasus Music Hall, during its last performance, and its first day of demolition.
- StarsVictor SilvesterDoreen FreemanSusan FranksPopular dance music series.
- StarsEileen BeldonArthur GoulletErnest HainesIncapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly English man turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.
- StarsRobert BerkeleyJune ClydeFelicity GowerSheridan Whiteside, famous as an author, broadcaster and expert on just about everything, is invited to dinner by a pompous small-town businessman - and stays rather longer than anyone anticipated.
- StarsOliver JohnstonRupert MarshAndrew OsbornA live television play set in the governor's office at a Northern England prison.