Milton Rosmer

Milton Rosmer

Birth : 1881-11-04, Southport, England

Death : 1971-12-07

Profile

Milton Rosmer

Movies

The Amazing Partnership
Pryde
A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.
The Small Back Room
Prof. Mair
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
The Monkey's Paw
Mr. Robert Trelawne
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Daybreak
Governor
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Fame Is the Spur
Magistrate
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Frieda
Merrick
A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family's household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have conflicting feelings about her presence in the community, and as a result, the family is forced to face their own moral code as they deal with their own prejudices and fears about the seemingly innocent German girl. The war ends, and she finally seems to be accepted into the family and community when her Nazi brother shows up to create havoc.
Atlantic Ferry
George Burns
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Dangerous Comment
Major Brett
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
Return to Yesterday
Sambourne
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
The Stars Look Down
Harry Nugent, MP
The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.
The Lion Has Wings
Head of Observer Corps
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Chatteris
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Let's Be Famous
Albert Pinbright
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
Gas Light
Inspector Rough
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.
The Challenge
Scenario Writer
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
The Challenge
Director
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
South Riding
Alderman Snaith
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
The Great Barrier
Screenplay
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Great Barrier
Director
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Everything Is Thunder
Director
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Director
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
The Guv'nor
Director
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
The Phantom Light
Dr. Carey
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.
Emil and the Detectives
Director
Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.
The Secret of the Loch
Director
A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young reporter attempts to get a scoop on the story.
Channel Crossing
Director
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
After the Ball
Director
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.
The Perfect Lady
Director
'Girl poses as maid of French actress who stole her fiancé.' (British Film Catalogue)
P.C. Josser
Director
The fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem himself by breaking up a ring of crooks who have been fixing horse-races by doping up the horses.
Many Waters
Director
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Dreyfus
Director
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
The W Plan
President of Court Martial
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
High Treason
Ernest Stratton
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Balaclava
Scenario Writer
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
Balaclava
Director
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
Shadow of Egypt
Harold Westcott
A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
The Passionate Friends
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
A Woman of No Importance
Lord Illingworth
A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.
The Twelve Pound Look
Harry Sims
A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff
The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
Little Women
Theodore Lawrence
The first silent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. It is considered a lost film.
The Man Without a Soul
Stephen Ferrier
A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Windermere
Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.