Harcourt Williams

Adaptación de la novela homónima de Julio Verne. Un ladrón ha robado 55.000 libras del banco de Inglaterra. Todos creen que ha sido Philleas Fogg, un auténtico caballero inglés, que ha hecho una apuesta con sus compañeros de club, asegurando que es capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días.

Bajo el marco del siglo XV, el joven escocés Quentin Durward actua como emisario de su tío para enviar sus respetos a la joven Isabel, Condesa de Macroy, con la cual se casará próximamente. Pero la opinón de la muchacha es distinta, reacia a contraer matrimonio, decide huir a Borgoña para dirigirse a la ciudad de Tours.

A boy detective, with Colonel Audacious and his wonderful invention, in a model aeroplane, the 'flying-eye', foil the efforts of international thieves to steal a secret formula.

Durante una visita a Roma, Ana, la joven princesa de un pequeño país centroeuropeo que detesta sus obligaciones y desea pasar inadvertida, se escapa de palacio para visitar la ciudad de incógnito. Así conoce a Joe, un periodista americano que busca una exclusiva y finge desconocer su verdadera identidad. La pareja vivirá entonces unas jornadas inolvidables.

A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator

La trama cuenta cómo un ex militar experto en explosivos es solicitado por la policía para desactivar una bomba colocada por un terrorista en un tren de municiones.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.

A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Australia, 1835. El sobrino del gobernador, Charles Adare (Michael Wilding), que acaba de llegar de Inglaterra, está invitado a cenar en casa de Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten), un antiguo presidiario que ha hecho fortuna y que está casado con una de una prima de Charles, Lady Harrietta (Ingrid Bergman). Charles descubre que su prima, que se ha convertido en una alcohólica, está aterrorizada por su ama de llaves Milly (Margaret Leighton) y, al tratar de curarla, se enamora de ella...

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.

Después de haber asesinado a su hermano, el rey de Dinamarca, Claudius se casa con la reina y ocupa el trono danés. En medio del dolor, al príncipe Hamlet se le aparece el fantasma de su padre reclamando venganza contra su asesino. Hamlet decide entonces contratar a una compañía de actores ambulantes para que representen en la corte una obra en la que se muestra el asesinato de un rey a manos de su hermano y en idénticas circunstancias. Hamlet espera ver cómo la reacción de su tío confirma su culpa.

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) es un gangster que lidera una pandilla de degenerados malvivientes. Después de cometer un asesinato, intenta manipular a una amiga suya para que le suministre una coartada. Filme basado en una novela de Graham Greene.

Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.

Guerra de los Cien Años. Tras una vida disoluta, Enrique V (1413-1422) hereda el trono de Inglaterra y toma conciencia de sus responsabilidades. En 1415 reúne un ejército de 30.000 hombres y reanuda la guerra contra los franceses. Ese mismo año los derrota en la batalla de Azincourt y, a continuación, ocupa Normandía y París.