Edith Sharpe

El padre O'Banion (William Holden) viaja a China, acompañado por una joven nativa, para sustituir al padre Bovard (Clifton Webb), un sacerdote que se ha hecho demasiado mayor para encargarse de la misión. Pero la presión de los comunistas complicará la situación.

Un criminal encantador pero despiadado toma como rehén a la familia de un gerente de banco como parte de un plan para robar 97,000 libras.

Misticismo, entrega, espiritualidad y pobreza conforman la historia de Francisco de Asís, hijo de un acaudalado comerciante de telas, que un día abandonó todas las comodidades y riquezas de la casa paterna para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a servir a Dios y a los necesitados. Biografía de uno de los personajes religiosos más importantes de la Historia.

Gladys Aylward, una intrépida misionera británica, creó en China un albergue para acoger a los agotados y hambrientos viajeros que recorrían las montañas. Consiguió, además, ganarse la confianza y la admiración de los hostiles nativos, enamorar a un coronel euro-asiático y convertir al cristianismo a un poderoso mandarín. Pero su mayor hazaña la logró cuando, ante la inminente invasión japonesa, llevó a cien niños sin hogar a través de las montañas a un lugar seguro. (FILMAFFINITY)

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...

A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.

This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.

Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are shocked--and so is Elizabeth when she decides she'd rather have her beau's nerdish brother. She turns the mouse into a lion so that he'll be a worthy husband.