British Films 1944 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2
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1. A Night of Magic (1944)
55 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A British playboy, who just happens to be in possession of an ancient sarcophagus (it's sitting in his mansion living room), discovers there's a 3000-year old Egyptian princess inside--... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wynne | Stars: Robert Griffith, Gerald Pring, Billy 'Uke' Scott, Marian Olive
Votes: 69
2. Candles at Nine (1944)
75 min | Mystery
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew, Joss Ambler
Votes: 143
3. Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
The castle ghost helps the lady and the lawyer beat off developers.
Director: Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Richard Bird, Edward Rigby, Esma Cannon, Ivor Barnard
Votes: 210
4. Her Man Gilbey (1944)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance, War
While bird-fancier Lady Christabel Beauclark (Dame Margaret Rutherford) scurries around demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Michael Wilding, Margaret Rutherford, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 345
5. Heaven Is Round the Corner (1944)
103 min | Musical
After Joan's father remarries, she goes to Paris, where her uncle arranges singing lessons for her.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Will Fyffe, Leni Lynn, Austin Trevor, Magda Kun
Votes: 8
6. Hotel Reserve (1944)
Approved | 79 min | Thriller
A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Directors: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury | Stars: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell, Julien Mitchell
Votes: 911
7. It Happened One Sunday (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Sweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher
Votes: 24
8. Medal for the General (1944)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, War
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Jeanne De Casalis, Morland Graham, Mabel Constanduros
Votes: 107
9. Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
97 min | Drama
An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla, Peter Mullins
Votes: 127
10. Rainbow Round the Corner (1944)
52 min | Music
Variety show comprising musical and dance acts.
Director: Victor M. Gover | Stars: The Boswell Twins, Vera Bradley, Chappie d'Amato, Daphne Day
11. Starlight Serenade (1944)
45 min | Music
Brian Michie introduces various musical and comedy acts in the form of a dress rehearsal for a stage review, interspersed with comedy routines featuring Bonar Colleano.
Director: Denis Kavanagh | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Beryl Davis, Harry Davis, Billy DeHaven
Votes: 18
12. Strawberry Roan (1944)
84 min | Drama
A farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: William Hartnell, Carol Raye, Walter Fitzgerald, Sophie Stewart
Votes: 46
14. The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and their illegal schemes.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister, Mary Clare
Votes: 36
15. Time Flies (1944)
88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to travel back to the Elizabethan era.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 162
16. Welcome Mr Washington (1944)
90 min | Drama, War
Two penniless sisters decide to let part of their inherited estate be used as an airbase for the U.S. military.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Barbara Mullen, Donald Stewart, Peggy Cummins, Leslie Bradley
Votes: 47
17. On Approval (1944)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Director: Clive Brook | Stars: Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers, Roland Culver
Votes: 720
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