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by ytzhu-52663 | created - 1 month ago | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicClive Brook, Clifford Evans, David Farrar, Griffith Jones, Hugh Sinclair, Hugh Williams, Philip Friend
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1. A Girl Must Live (1939)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, George Robey
Votes: 238
2. Dangerous Secrets (1937)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Before he leaves for a posting in India, young Jim Wyndham has a fling with pretty Helen Norwood. After he leaves, Helen marries Prof. Paul Bernardy, a much older man. Four years later Jim returns from India, ready to take up where he left off with Helen, only to find out that she's now married. Complications ensue.
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Paul Lukas, Linden Travers, Hugh Williams, Marie Ney
Votes: 156
3. Spy 77 (1933)
89 min | Drama, Romance, War
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Greta Nissen, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Don Alvarado, Lester Matthews
Votes: 66
4. The Secret Four (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The four men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Votes: 188
5. Java Head (1934)
68 min | Drama, Romance
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan, John Loder, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 140
6. The Ware Case (1938)
79 min | Drama, Mystery
Sir Hubert Ware (Clive Brook) an apparently wealthy businessman is in fact on the verge of bankruptcy. When his boorish well-healed brother is found dead on the family estate he finds himself on trial for murder.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Clive Brook, Jane Baxter, Barry K. Barnes, C.V. France
Votes: 164
7. Crime Unlimited (1935)
TV-G | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Esmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, George Merritt
Votes: 299
8. Young Man's Fancy (1939)
77 min | Comedy
An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt
Votes: 111
9. Where Sinners Meet (1934)
72 min | Romance, Comedy
Leonard and Anne are taking the lovers road to Dover where they will board the boat and go to Paris. But the car breaks down and Saunders takes them to a nearby hotel. When they get there, ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen
Votes: 162
10. If I Were Free (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
A suicidal World War I veteran and an antique dealer, both already married to others, embark on a love affair.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Irene Dunne, Clive Brook, Nils Asther, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 301
11. Suspected Person (1942)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth
Votes: 130
12. Take My Life (1947)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Philippa 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.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Leo Bieber, Marjorie Mars
Votes: 429
13. The Blind Goddess (1948)
87 min | Drama
Lord Brasted is in charge of a postwar fund for displaced persons. His secretary, Derek Waterhouse, visits the Prime Minister to accuse Brasted of taking money from the fund. This results ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, Hugh Williams, Michael Denison
Votes: 168
14. Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
97 min | Drama, History, War
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams, Isabel Jeans, Michael Lawrence
Votes: 132
15. No Trace (1950)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama
1950. Drama. Directed by John Gilling. Writer Robert Southley finds his lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate. Stars Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan & John Laurie.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Dinah Sheridan, John Laurie, Dora Bryan
Votes: 201
16. The Gay Lady (1949)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. She later wonders if Sid wasn't better after all, and seeks to find out.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Lana Morris
Votes: 177
17. Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 806
18. 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
19. For Those in Peril (1944)
67 min | Drama, War
An RAF officer wishes to fly, but isn't allowed and is posted to the RAF Air Sea Rescue operating in the English Channel.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: David Farrar, Ralph Michael, Robert Wyndham, John Slater
Votes: 145
20. The Flemish Farm (1943)
82 min | War, Drama
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied Belgium for the honour of his regiment.
Director: Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter, Philip Friend
Votes: 253
21. The Voice in the Night (1941)
95 min | Drama, War
Hitler's doctor is gradually realizing that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start disappearing into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr
Votes: 307
22. On Approval (1944)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Director: Clive Brook | Stars: Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers, Roland Culver
Votes: 720
23. Sons of the Sea (1939)
82 min | Drama, War
A cadet and military captain investigate murder at military college, suspecting the victim was targeted. They race to uncover the truth and stop the killer before they strike again, amid suspicious professors and intelligence operations.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Leslie Banks, Mackenzie Ward, Kay Walsh, Simon Lack
Votes: 155
24. Underground Guerrillas (1943)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, War
A World War II film made by Ealing Studios on the Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia.
Director: Sergei Nolbandov | Stars: John Clements, Tom Walls, Rachel Thomas, Stephen Murray
Votes: 176
25. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During WW2, a British commando lands in German-occupied France to locate a German munitions plant and to mark the target with a beacon for the Allied night bombers sent to destroy it.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 297
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