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1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie
Votes: 16,419
2. Genevieve (1953)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Two British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race.
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More
Votes: 3,452
3. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,128
4. Sea Devils (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed, Denis O'Dea
Votes: 797
5. The Fighting Pimpernel (1949)
88 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 614
6. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 180
7. Ten Little Niggers (1949 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Sheldon | Stars: Douglas Hurn, Elizabeth Maude, Arthur Wontner, Stanley Lemin
Votes: 121
8. Blanche Fury (1948)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough
Votes: 1,024
9. Three Cases of Murder (1954)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural.
Directors: David Eady, George More O'Ferrall, Wendy Toye, Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, John Gregson, Elizabeth Sellars, Emrys Jones
Votes: 1,140
10. The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Isla Bevan, Ian Hunter, Graham Soutten
Votes: 634
11. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Unrated | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr
Votes: 806
12. Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull
Votes: 789
13. Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (1931)
72 min | Crime, Mystery
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Minnie Rayner, Leslie Perrins
Votes: 475
14. Thunder in the City (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Luli Deste
Votes: 443
15. The Terror (1938)
64 min | Crime, Mystery
A criminal mastermind robs gold, frames his gang, keeps loot. Freed gang searches for ex-boss for revenge and their share.
Director: Richard Bird | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner, Linden Travers
Votes: 281
16. Brandy for the Parson (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A young couple get involved with a smuggler.
Director: John Eldridge | Stars: James Donald, Kenneth More, Jean Lodge, Frederick Piper
Votes: 207
17. Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt (1932)
84 min | Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Jane Welsh, Miles Mander, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 34
18. Victoria Regina (1947 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her romance with Prince Albert through her diamond jubilee in 1897.
Stars: Sheila Beckett, Joan Berly, Clarence Bigge, Howard Douglas
19. Queen of Crime (1938)
55 min | Crime, Thriller
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 68
20. Pygmalion (1948 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Drama
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
Stars: Ralph Michael, Margaret Lockwood, Arthur Wontner, Gordon Harker
Votes: 7
21. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Director: Charles Calvert | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello, Hugh Miller, A.B. Imeson
22. Line Engaged (1935)
68 min | Drama
Director: Bernard Mainwaring | Stars: Bramwell Fletcher, Jane Baxter, Arthur Wontner, Mary Clare
23. The Live Wire (1937)
69 min | Comedy
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Bernard Nedell, Jean Gillie, Hugh Wakefield, Arthur Wontner
24. Condemned to Death (1932)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Sentenced to death, a murderer uses hypnotism skills to make a judge go out and kill the people who had accused him of the crime.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind, Gordon Harker, Cyril Raymond
Votes: 22
25. Eugene Aram (1924)
Crime, Drama
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Arthur Rooke | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Barbara Hoffe, Mary Odette, James Carew
26. Dishonour Bright (1936)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
Stephen Champion is a correspondent in the case of Lamb v Lamb. Prosecuting council reviles him in the witness box as a Don Juan but Stephen cheerfully maintains that he is human and honest.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Eugene Pallette, Betty Stockfeld, Diana Churchill
Votes: 53
27. Macbeth/II (1949 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Patrick Macnee, Peter Mullins, Stephen Murray
28. George and the Dragon (1952 TV Movie)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Pauline Brailsford, Brian Haines, Brenda Hogan, Roddy Hughes
29. Second Bureau (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Erna Fielder (Marta Labarr), a female German spy during World Ward Two, falls in love with Paul Benoit (Charles Oliver), the French spy she had been detailed to trap and expose. Love wins ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Hanbury | Stars: Marta Labarr, Charles Oliver, Arthur Wontner, Meinhart Maur
30. Love from a Stranger (1947 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Thriller
A suave ladies man sweeps a working class girl, who has won the lottery, off her feet.She doesn't yet realize that he is a serial killer.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Joy Harington, Elisabeth Kirkby, Sam Lysons, Edna Morris
Votes: 6
31. Hamlet Part 1 (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
A live, early television version of the play
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, W.E. Holloway
Votes: 12
32. Hamlet Part 2 (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, Arthur Wontner
33. The Merchant of Venice (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
Votes: 6
34. Hamlet Part 2/II (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, Arthur Wontner
35. The Infernal Machine (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Stars: George Bishop, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Adrienne Corri, Rosalie Crutchley
36. Macbeth (1949 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
The thane Macbeth plots to become king of Scotland, aided by his ambitious wife.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Stephen Murray, Ruth Lodge, Mark Dignam, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 11
37. Regal Cavalcade (1935)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Brenon, W.P. Kellino, Norman Lee, Walter Summers, Thomas Bentley, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Marie Lohr, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Hale, J.H. Roberts
Votes: 27
38. Clementina (1954)
35 min | Drama
Stars: Patrick Troughton, Elizabeth Henson, Fred Johnson, Desmond Jordan
39. A Private Room (1954 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Peter Bathurst, Cecil Brock, Mary Jerrold, John Stuart
40. A Hundred Years Old (1948 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Arthur Wontner, Frederick Victor, Mona Washbourne, Helen Haye
41. Hamlet Part 1/II (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, W.E. Holloway
42. The Warden (1951– )
30 min | Drama
Stars: J.H. Roberts, Thea Holme, Lockwood West, Avice Landone
43. The Bigamist (1916)
Drama
A drunkard abandons his wife, weds a rich girl, takes a mistress, steals a legacy and kills his first wife.
Stars: Arthur Wontner, Ethel Warwick, Dorothy Fane, Hayden Coffin
44. Just Like a Woman (1938)
71 min | Comedy
The story of the rivalry between a jewelry salesman and a woman doing business in Europe and South America.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Felix Aylmer, David Burns, Jeanne De Casalis, Fred Emney
45. A Gentleman of Paris (1931)
78 min | Crime, Drama
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the ... See full summary »
Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Vanda Gréville, Hugh Williams, Phyllis Konstam
Votes: 18
46. The Merchant of Venice/II (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange ... See full summary »
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Abraham Sofaer, Austin Trevor, André Morell, John Gatrell
47. The Gay Lord Quex (1938 TV Movie)
55 min
Stars: Arthur Wontner, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Helen Goss, Everley Gregg
48. Old Iron (1938)
80 min | Drama
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Eva Moore, Cecil Parker, Richard Ainley
49. The Courage of Despair (1923)
Drama, Short
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Jose Collins, Arthur Wontner
50. 13 Men and a Gun (1938)
64 min | War, Drama
WWI thriller set on the Austro-Russian front: a long distance gun helps ward off an enemy attack until a traitor among 13 soldiers signals the whereabouts of the battery.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Clifford Evans, Howard Marion-Crawford, Allan Jeayes