Search results for "Anthony Asquith"
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce
IMDb: 6.4
122

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a…

Genre: Comedy
The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s
IMDb: 6.3
119

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London’s Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Millionairess

The Millionairess

The Millionairess
IMDb: 5.4
89

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician,…

Genre: Comedy
Libel

Libel

Libel
IMDb: 7.2
100

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and…

Genre: Mystery
The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma
IMDb: 5.8
99

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.

Genre: Comedy
Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill
IMDb: 7
112

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio…

Genre: War
Carrington V.C.

Carrington V.C.

Carrington V.C.
IMDb: 6.9
105

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Net

The Net

The Net
IMDb: 5.6
86

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of…

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest
IMDb: 7.4
95

Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend — whom he knows as “Ernest” — is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to…

Genre: Comedy
The Browning Version

The Browning Version

The Browning Version
IMDb: 8
90

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question

The Woman in Question
IMDb: 6.8
88

Agnes “Astra” Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks…

Genre: Mystery
The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy
IMDb: 7.6
117

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Uncategorized
The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars

The Way to the Stars
IMDb: 7.3
109

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…

Genre: War
We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
98

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from…

Genre: War
The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise
IMDb: 6.2
114

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…

Genre: Comedy
Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio
IMDb: 6.5
95

Hitler’s doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn’t as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to “disappear” into the camps. His wife is courted…

Genre: War
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.7
90

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
IMDb: 7.7
96

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months’ training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up…

Genre: Comedy
Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 7.3
93

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same…

Genre: Uncategorized
Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars
IMDb: 7.2
103

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

Genre: Uncategorized