James Harcourt

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Basil Sydney

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Robert Newton

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sabu

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noah Beery

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elaine Benson

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Hulbert

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Fields

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Rome

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell,...

Genre: History

Cast: Clifford Evans

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Griffith Jones

An Englishwoman who writes novels meets a farmer who has just killed his nagging wife.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Mason

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Harcourt

When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyrell Davis

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emlyn Williams

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Joan Gardner

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim