Justice Osborne
Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as the murderer.
Judge
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Henrickson
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Judge McWhirrey
Uma avó procura uma governanta para sua neta de 16 anos, Laurel, que conseguiu expulsar todas até agora, expondo seu passado, com um recorde de três em uma semana! Quando uma candidata com um passado misterioso consegue pegar o emprego, Laurel promete expô-la. Enquanto isso, a mãe casada e divorciada de Laurel tenta recuperá-la.
Doctor
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a different supporting cast.
Archbishop of Canterbury
O Arcebisto de Canterbury (Felix Aylmer), grande opositor do Estado inglês, morre, e o Rei Henrique II nomeia um seu antigo amigo de festas para o cargo tentando evitar qualquer tipo de oposição. Mas o que Henrique II não contava era que Becket, seu antigo amigo, fosse ser mais rígido que qualquer outro antecessor. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Parson
When pilot Rex Black destroys his plane in a crash the day after his insurance policy expires, the insurance company refuses to give him any money. To strike back at the agency, Rex fakes his death, changes his identity, and escapes to Spain, with 50,000 pounds in life insurance money. His wife joins him in Spain, but when an insurance investigator arrives unexpectedly, Rex's paranoia causes him to flee again.
Judge
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
Grand Lama
When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
Dr. Lieberman
Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Dr. Francis Cochrane
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer - useless for a pianist, but quite handy for less delicate work...
James Duncan MacHardie
Alfred Eaton, um jovem e ambicioso executivo, sobe ao topo do mundo financeiro de Nova York enquanto seu casamento desmorona. À beira de alcançar seus objetivos de carreira, ele é forçado a escolher entre o sucesso nos negócios, casado com a linda mas infiel Mary, e começar de novo com seu verdadeiro amor, a muito mais jovem Natalie. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)
Clarence Olderberry Sr.
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Sir Howard Hallam
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
Stephen Banning
Egito, 1895. Três arqueologistas britânicos, John Banning (Peter Cushing), Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) e Joseph Whemple (Raymond Hutley), descobrem o túmulo de uma princesa egípcia, Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), que morreu há quatro mil anos. Sem imaginar o que realmente fazia, Stephen lê o "Pergaminho da Vida". Isto faz voltar a vida Kharis (Christopher Lee), o guardião da tumba, que recebe a ajuda de Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), um egípcio que não aceita o túmulo ter sido profanado por "infiéis". Três anos depois, Mehemet leva para a Inglaterra Kharis, que terá a missão de matar os três arqueólogos que lideraram a expedição que achou a tumba de Ananka.
Sir Patrick Cullen
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Mr. Fowler
Nomeado em 1958 para 7 prêmios da academia, incluindo Melhor Filme, e ganhador de 2: Melhor Ator para David Niven e Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante para Wendy Hiller. Vidas Separadas é "um filme inteligente e provocante" (Variety) e uma obra-prima cinematográfica repleta de compaixão e uma tocante sensibilidade. Viaje para o Hotel Beauregard, onde todos os excêntricos hóspedes compartilham um mesmo sentimento, a solidão. Veremos o Major Pollack (David Niven), que esconde um tenebroso segredo por trás da superfície polida de um semblante militar; Sibyl Railton-Bell (Deborah Kerr), uma tímida e neurótica ex copeira que não tem coragem para livrar-se de sua dominadora mãe: John Malcom (Burt Lancaster), um desencantado escritor que afoga a amargura no álcool; e Ann Shankland (Rita Hayworth), cujo narcisismo mascara um profundo medo de envelhecer sozinha e sem amor. Em uma emocionante noite, esses quatro infelizes vão enfrentar seus mais escondidos segredos, e mudar as suas vidas para sempre.
Cornaz
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Edgar Demange
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Inquisitor
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
Chamberlain
Com a revolução russa em 1917, o Czar Nicolau II e sua família foram capturados e executados, mas segundo rumores, sua filha mais nova Anastácia havia sobrevivido e vivia na Europa. Anos depois, um ex-general russo, que vive de um empreendimento fraudulento envolvendo a herança real, precisa provar aos seus investidores a existência da princesa, e se utiliza de uma mulher perturbada e sem identidade para assumir o papel de Anastácia.
The Other
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
Winant
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Merlin
O recém coroado rei da Inglaterra, Arthur Pendragon dedica seu reinado e a irmandade dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda aos ideais de paz e justiça. Apoiando o Rei Arthur em seus objetivos está a sua amada Rainha Guinevere, o nobre Sir Lancelot e o misterioso Merlin. Lancelot e Guinevere estão divididos entre a secreta paixão que os envolve e a lealdade e respeito que nutrem por Arthur. Mas essa traição não é nada se comparada ao ódio que a feiticeira Morgana, meia irmã de Arthur, e seu filho Mordred sentem pelo Rei de Camelot.
Lord Durrisdeer
Em 1745, enquanto a Escócia se levanta em rebelião para apoiar o último herdeiro da realeza escocesa caída em desgraça, dois irmãos, de uma pequena família nobre, decidem o que fazer: o mais velho e herdeiro da família, James, apoia os revoltosos, ao passo que Henry, o mais novo, irá manter-se do lado do rei inglês. Vença quem vencer, a família estará protegida. Acontece que, em meio à derrota da revolta patriota, James fica certo de que o seu irmão o traiu e deseja ver morto, revelando aos ingleses onde estava escondido. É o começo de uma grande aventura que irá levá-lo até às Caraíbas, antes do reencontro dos irmãos para o derradeiro acerto de contas.
Merkemans
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
Isaac
O leal cavaleiro britânico Wilfred de Ivanhoe sai em uma missão para libertar o rei sequestrado da Inglaterra, Ricardo Coração de Leão, nesta aventura empolgante. O bravo Ivanhoe deve, eventualmente, enfrentar o perverso príncipe John e o feroz guerreiro normando Brian de Bois-Guilbert, além das afeições das lindas donzelas Rowena e Rebecca.
Plautius
Após três anos em campanha, o general Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor) retorna à Roma e encontra Lygia (Deborah Kerr), por quem se apaixona. Ela é uma cristã e não quer nenhum envolvimento com um guerreiro. Mas, apesar de ter sido criada como romana, Lygia é a filha adotiva de um general aposentado e, teoricamente, uma refém de Roma. Marcus procura o imperador Nero (Peter Ustinov), para que ela lhe seja dada pelos serviços que ele fez. Lygia se ressente, mas de alguma forma se apaixona por Marcus. Enquanto isso, as atrocidades de Nero são cada vez mais ultrajantes e, quando ele queima Roma e culpa os cristãos, Marcus salva Lygia e a família dela. Nero captura todos os cristãos e os atira aos leões mas, no final, Marcus, Lygia e o cristianismo prevalecerão. Na filmagem da obra de Sienkiewicz, foram utilizados cerca de 32 mil figurinos e milhares de figurantes, dentre eles então os 'desconhecidos' Bud Spencer, Sophia Loren (então com 17 anos) e Elizabeth Taylor.
Lord Palmerston
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Um engenheiro aeronáutico prevê que um novo modelo de avião falhará catastroficamente e de uma maneira inédita após um número específico de horas de voo.
James Stewart interpreta o engenheiro aeronáutico Theodore Honey, o protótipo de um professor: distraído, excêntrico, esquecido, mas brilhante. Seus estudos mostram que a aeronave que está sendo fabricada por seu empregador tem uma falha de design sutil, mas mortal, que se manifesta apenas após a aeronave ter voado um determinado número de horas. A caminho de um local de acidente para provar sua teoria, Honey descobre que está a bordo de um avião que se aproxima rapidamente do prazo mortal previsto.
Mr. Playfair
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
Bank Manager
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
British Consul
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
The British Judge
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.
Marc Antonio Verano
Neste épico cativante repleto de intriga, ação e romance, o belo e talentoso Tyrone Power brilha no papel-título como Andrea Orsini, um corajoso e ousado soldado. A história é ambientada na Itália na época da Renascença, onde a famosa e violenta família Borgia, comandada por Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles), está determinada a tomar as terras vizinhas e expandir o império, poder e riqueza da família. Como soldado-espião dos Borgias, Orsini é enviado a um pequeno território que Cesare espera capturar. Mas Orsini é cativado pela inteligência e charme do Duque e de sua jovem esposa. Dividido entre a lealdade e seu senhor e a crescente amizade com suas possíveis vítimas, Orsini se vê numa feroz e espetacular batalha que o força a confrontar suas próprias ideias de justiça e nobreza. A soberba fotografia de Leon Shamroy da região campestre italiana fornece um pano de fundo maravilhoso para este imperdível mistura de drama com aventura.
Father Perez
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Dr. Liddel / The Cheshire Cat (voice)
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
Mr. Hanray
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Polonius - Lord Chamberlain
O príncipe dinamarquês Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) procura vingar a morte do pai o Rei. O fantasma do seu pai conta que foi assassinado pelo seu tio (Basil Sydney), irmão do rei, que assumiu o trono e casou-se com a rainha, a mãe de Hamlet (Eileen Herlie).
Martin
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Lord Forlingham
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
Colonel "Bulldog" Kelsoe
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.
Richard Sanctuary
Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
Dr. Martin
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Priest
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Daniel Booth
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
Sir Felix Mountroyal
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Sir Ernest Foster
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
1st. Nobleman
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Marcus Brutus
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Hogarth
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Rev. Charles Moss
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Archbishop of Canterbury
Henrique V (Laurence Olivier) foi o rei da Inglaterra de 1413 até 1422, e se envolveu em um episódio heróico e patriótico. Ele partiu em uma pequena expedição até a França para reivindicar a coroa daquela nação. Só que quando ele chegou a Agingcourt, foi recebido pelo vasto exército francês, que não estava nem um pouco disposto a deixá-lo passar.
Mr. Emmanuel
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
Mr. Spaggot
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams
The Professor
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Mr. Runalow
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
Sir Alfred Horton
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
The Bishop
Clive Candy V.C. lutou na Guerra dos Boers (África do Sul) e na Primeira Guerra Mundial. Ele ainda acredita que pode vencer qualquer luta com honra e mantendo uma "Conduta Cavalheiresca". Ele têm um velho amigo alemão para mostrar o quanto as regras foram alteradas quando lutando contra os nazistas. Seguimos este senhor delicioso através de sua vida e da busca de seus diversos ideais.
Mr. Keith
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
The President
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
Schoolmaster (uncredited)
An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes through geography lessons, food and entertainment on the Home Front.
Lord North
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
John Dighton
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Crabtree
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Sir Elmer Norton
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Mr. Appleby
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
Lord Amersham
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.
Henry Potter
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Bank President
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Sir Edward Grey (uncredited)
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
James
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Mr. Morton
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
Leighton
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Dr Winter
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Mayor
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Dr. Amersham
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Mr. Sand
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
The Proctor
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Dr. Fredericks
Tchecoslováquia, março de 1939, na véspera da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enquanto os invasores alemães ocupam Praga, o inventor Axel Bomasch consegue fugir e chegar à Inglaterra; mas aqueles que precisam colocar os seus conhecimentos ao serviço da máquina de guerra nazi, para levar a cabo os seus maléficos planos de destruição, não pararão em nada para o capturar…
Prosecuting Counsel
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Sir Robert Hummel
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
Sir Caleb Crowther
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Lord Palmerston (edited from 'Victoria the Great')
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Col. Cairns
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Lord Palmerston
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Mr. Boon
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Chairman of Council
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.
Bishop
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
Dr. Nichols
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Prosecuting Counsel
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
Lord Palmerston
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Sir Eustace Cunninghame
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Earl of Brendon
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
Diplomat
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Sir Robert Blaker
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
Mr. Wakem
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Managing Director
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Lord Bouverie
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Police Commissioner
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
The Earl of Wigan
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
Duke Frederick
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
Edward Seymour
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Sir Charles Webber
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
Counsel
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
Count Seidel
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
QUota quickie crime drama.
Henry Nicholls
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Prosecutor (uncredited)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Donald Black
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls of the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
Lord Yardleigh
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Lord Uxbridge
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Sir Daniel Summerfield
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
Superintendent Fulton
When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
Ferera (Phase IV)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Sir Richard Bryant
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Coroner
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Sir Henderson Trent
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
The Prison Governor
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
Public Prosecutor
Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.
Sir Rowland Delahaye
The play was adapted for BBC TV in 1955 starring Margaret Lockwood. Wallace Douglas directed.
