Ivor Barnard
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Sea Devils
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine.
Malta Story
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Beat the Devil
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.
The Queen of Spades
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
So Evil My Love
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin.
Great Expectations
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Appointment with Crime
An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
The Wicked Lady
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Perfect Strangers
Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple whose relationship is shaken by their service in the Second World War.
Caesar and Cleopatra
At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.
Undercover
A World War II film made by Ealing Studios on the Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement in German-occupied Yugoslavia.
The Silver Fleet
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?
The Saint's Vacation
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Quiet Wedding
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
The Stars Look Down
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Cheer Boys Cheer
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Pygmalion
Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can pass her off as a duchess within three months.
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Secret Lives
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
The House of the Spaniard
A mild-mannered young British man finds himself caught up in a web of smuggling, counterfeiting and political chicanery, and falls for a beautiful Spanish senorita whose father is one of the heads of the criminal gangs threatening him.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces. A romantic thriller that revolves around a Canadian tourist visiting London who gets caught in the middle of a murder plot that has police and the secret service after him. A classic Hitchcock of romance mixed with adventure and picturesque scenes.
Foreign Affaires
Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera.
Love, Life & Laughter
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder). This one however, isn't English, but from a broken down mittleEuropean duchy with a lonely castle amidst an Alpine-like landscape.
Death at Broadcasting House
When an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from.
The Good Companions
Musical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
The Skin Game
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Sally in Our Alley
A British soldier fights in WWI, gets wounded, and fakes his death so his girlfriend can move on. Years later, healed, he seeks her out while she still grieves his supposed demise. Wartime romance, sacrifice, reunion after trauma.