John Longden

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.

사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.

Robert Ayres is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by a car he stops to see if he can help. What he gets for his efforts is a vicious belt to the head from a lead cosh. He is then relieved of his wallet and his car. Several minutes later having somewhat recovered, he staggers to a nearby farmhouse and collapses.

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.

Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?

Inspector Slade investigates a murder.

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

2차 대전 당시 영국 폭격기 한 대가 네덜란드 근처로 추락한다. 가까스로 살아남은 승무원과 동료들은 한적한 시골 마을로 숨어들어 신분을 숨기는 한편, 레지스탕스의 도움을 받아 고국으로 돌아가려 한다. 하지만 이를 위해서는 먼저 나치의 감시를 피해야만 한다. 파웰과 프레스버거의 공동제작사 ‘The Archers’에서 처음 만든 작품. (2017년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 마이클 파웰, 에머릭 프레스버거 특별전)

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.

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.

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

조스가 운영하는 자마이카 여인숙은 지나가는 배를 난파시켜 생존자들을 살해하고 물건들을 약탈하는 해적들의 근거지이다. 메리는 이모를 찾아 아일랜드를 떠나 자마이카 여인숙으로 오는 도중 험프리 경내에 머물게 된다. 메리는 자마이카 여인숙으로 갈 말을 빌려달라고 하나 험프리 경은 그녀에게 그곳에 가지 말라고 경고한다. 히치콕 감독이 미국으로 가기 전 영국에서 만든 마지막 작품으로 그의 최악의 영화로 알려졌으나 개봉당시 박스 오피스 히트작이었다.

An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.

Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.

인기 상승의 젊은 여배우가 해안에서 시체로 발견된다. 이를 발견한 로버트 티스달은 구조를 청하기 위해 뛰어가는데, 해변에 놀러왔던 두 여자가 그를 보고 살인을 저지른 후, 달아나는 것으로 오인한다. 로버트는 경찰의 심문을 받게 되고, 정황적인 증거에 의해 살인 혐의를 받는다. 그는 결백함을 증명하고자 법원에서 도망쳐 실제 범인을 추적하는데, 도중에 에리카라는 여자의 도움을 받게 된다. 에리카는 경찰국장의 딸이지만, 순진한 청년 로버트를 믿고, 그의 결백함을 증명하고 진짜 살인범을 잡기 위한 동행길에 오르게 되는데...

A showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.

Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup.

Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career. The Dean denies responsibility for both the pregnancy of his lover Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), and the death of her father, whom it turns out was enraged at the Dean's behaviour, attacked him and was killed in a fall. His friend, Dr. Everard (John Warwick), is found guilty of the death on false evidence, and Maitland allows him to suffer 20 years imprisonment. When the doctor is released from prison, bitter and seeking revenge, the Dean must confront his silence and his guilt, and the climax is the Dean's confession from the pulpit of his sins...

A humble girl's rise to fame.

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

A British crime film directed by John Longden

A British crime film directed by John Longden

Wealthy businessman F.X. Benedik, Head of the Rynox company, claims to have been receiving threats from a mysterious stranger named Boswell Marsh. Benedik is subsequently found murdered and the hunt is on for the elusive Marsh. Benedik's son Tony takes over the running of the business and tries to find some lead on Marsh, and why he should have borne a murderous grudge against Benedik Senior. His investigations lead him to the unexpected finding that Marsh never existed.

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself.

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

부자 가족 힐크리스트는 자신들의 땅에 공장을 짓기 위해 가난한 농부가 보낸 투자사기 전문가 혼블로워와 싸움을 시작한다. 그러던 어느 날 힐크리스트 부인은 혼블로워의 부인이 매춘을 했다는 사실을 알게 되고 이 사실을 그의 사업에 이용하여 협박편지를 보낸다. 그러자 결국 클로 혼블로워 부인은 자살을 하게 된다.

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!

An old Jew is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

해군 선장이었던 과거에서 벗어나지 못하는 아버지와 그로 인해 힘들게 살림을 꾸려나가는 어머니, 아일랜드 독립군에 들어갔다가 팔을 잃고 엉치뼈가 부러진 아들. 이들 가족에게 먼 친척이 유산을 남겼다는 소식이 날아와 마음껏 돈을 쓴다. 그러나 변호사의 계략으로 딸은 임신을 한 채 버려지고 그들에게 돈이 한푼도 남지 않는데…

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

런던 경찰국의 탐정인 프랭크의 애인 앨리스는 강간을 당할뻔 한 상황에서 저항을 하다가 살인을 저지르고 만다. 이때 한 남자가 접근해 살인사건에 대해 앨리스와 프랭크를 협박한다. 프랭크의 수사 끝에 결국 협박자가 전과자임을 알아내고 그에게 모든 죄를 덮어씌우려는데...

발레타인 윌모트(제임스 토머스)는 번화한 나이트클럽이자 레스토랑인 피카딜리 서커스의 소유자이다. 피카딜리의 스타는 윌모트가 키운 아름다운 댄서 메이블(질다 그레이)과 빅터라는 댄서 커플이다. 잘 나가던 빅터가 윌모트와의 불화로 클럽을 떠나자 메이블의 인기가 떨어지면서 클럽은 경영난을 겪게 된다. 손님의 불만으로 해고한 중국인 접시닦이 쇼쇼(아나 메이 웡)의 춤 솜씨를 보게 된 발레타인은 그녀를 댄서로 발탁하고 그녀는 큰 성공을 거두게 된다. 독일 출신 감독인 두폰트가 영국으로 건너가 연출한 이 영화는 독일 표현주의와 영국적 소재가 적절히 섞인 느와르 풍의 무성영화이다. 삼각관계 질투, 그로 인한 살인, 거짓증언, 자살 등 멜로드라마의 전형을 따르고 있다. 중국계 미국배우인 아나 메이 웡은 팜므파탈 쇼쇼로 분해 개봉 당시 큰 반향을 불러 일으켰다. 아나 메이 웡의 마지막 무성영화로 2004년 BFI에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대)

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.