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- DirectorL.C. MacBeanStarsEdmund GwennNelson KeysGodfrey TearleA satire on American films, in which Shakespeare's Macbeth is performed as it might be imagined performed in an American film. (The film was prepared as part of a live benefit for the YMCA attended by the British royal family. Edmund Gwenn (QV) appeared onstage but not on film as the American producer.)
- DirectorRex WilsonStarsGerald du MaurierMalvina LongfellowEdmund GwennA squire's daughter weds a landlord who later falls for her grown-up bastard daughter.
- DirectorB.E. Doxat-PrattStarsEdmund GwennMary ClareHelen HayeA rich woman thwarts a pottery manufacturer's plans by exposing his daughter-in-law's past.
- DirectorCecil LewisStarsEdmund GwennVera LennoxRobert Harris
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsEdmund GwennJill EsmondC.V. FranceAn old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsSybil ThorndikeJohn StuartNorman McKinnelA Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsMargaret VinesFrederick PeisleyJane WelshLilian has an illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsArthur WontnerGillian LindGordon HarkerSentenced to death, a murderer uses hypnotism skills to make a judge go out and kill the people who had accused him of the crime.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsSeymour HicksBetty StockfeldEdmund Gwenn
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJack HulbertLeonora CorbettGordon HarkerA shy shop assistant tries to romance a pianist he always sees on the morning bus to work.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsJan KiepuraSonnie HaleMagda SchneiderAn Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsEdmund GwennJohn GielgudMusical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsEdmund GwennWendy BarrieRobert DonatA schemer and his daughter have lived the high life, but they are out of cash. A last-ditch plan to lure investors goes awry when the electric company shows up to turn off the lights. But the new employee brings hope and something more.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsHerbert MarshallConrad VeidtMadeleine CarrollDuring World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsMatheson LangConstance CummingsAnthony BushellMoney isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsEdmund GwennPeggy NovakD.A. Clarke-SmithA staid stockbroker decides to break out of his boring, monotonous life by treating himself to one wild night.
- DirectorLudwig BergerStarsHeather AngelFernand GraveyEdmund GwennA nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They meet by chance, not knowing who's who, and fall in love.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleMuriel AkedIt is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus. Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes, and we discover the lives of all of the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con man with a hundred pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash, and past it, as some live and some die.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsEdmund GwennViola LyelIris March
- DirectorGuy NewallStarsEdmund GwennAubrey MatherJames Raglan1934. Comedy. Directed by Guy Newall and starring Edmund Gwenn, James Raglan and Hope Davy. A retired admiral who has a valuable diamond is pursued by crooks intent on getting the gem.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsEdmund GwennEsmond KnightJessie MatthewsThe story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.
- DirectorT. Hayes HunterStarsEdmund GwennJohn LoderLeonora CorbettA German criminologist working for the Paric Police is bilked out of his life savings, and latterly joins up with a career burglar to pull off one big moneymaking heist in London. The case is investigated by a British inspector who bears an uncanny resemblance to the burglar.
- DirectorJ. Walter RubenStarsAnna May WongElizabeth AllanJohn LoderThe port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsEdmund GwennEsmond KnightJames Finlayson
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'SullivanLucile WatsonOn a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnCary GrantBrian AherneWhen her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBoris KarloffRicardo CortezEdmund GwennAfter hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsEdmund GwennCedric HardwickeVictoria HopperIn Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyMichael CurtizStarsFredric MarchOlivia de HavillandDonald WoodsIn 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
- DirectorEdwin L. MarinStarsStuart ErwinRobert ArmstrongBetty FurnessCarnival promoters and gangsters back a math genius rube in a big money bridge tournament.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsEdmund LoweElissa LandiZasu PittsPhilip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James, thinking that the stories are tripe, and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship he meets a mysterious young woman, then finds a body--then discovers that the whole affair was staged by Peter Dean, author of the Shelby James novels. But then Mr. Van Mier is found murdered in the same way and the Dragon diamond is missing. No matter what Philip tries to do, he finds himself involved with the crime and meddles his way through it looking for the killer and the diamond--with help from Peter Dean.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsClark GableMyrna LoyEdna May OliverThe life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the relationship with married Katie O'Shea which threatens to bring all Parnell's plans to ruin. Moderately accurate historically.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsEdna BestRalph RichardsonEdmund GwennWinifred 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. The 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 where country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsRobert TaylorVivien LeighLionel BarrymoreA brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsEdmund GwennBetty DriverJimmy O'DeaA 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 large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsEdmund GwennJohn MillsFrank LawtonA typical English family sit down to eat, and discuss the prospect of war.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsNova PilbeamEdmund GwennJimmy O'DeaSet in the world of brewing, a classic tale (an Ealing speciality) of the small, friendly, family run company being threatened with closure by the nasty, modern, large organisation. Bringing in familiar farce elements such as mistaken identity, slapstick and even pie fights, the tale is resolved through the love felt by the children of the opposing brewery owners.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeVictor SavilleStarsRobert MontgomeryEdward ArnoldReginald OwenSilky has always moved booze. During prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an honest man. Now that he is getting out, Silky wants an honest man as his general manager. After an English solicitor arrives to show that Silky is the new Earl of Gorley, Doc sees his chance to get Silky out of the way. But Silky takes Doc with him to England to see about selling his holdings and taking the money. While Doc knows that none of the property can be sold, he does not tell Silky. While Silky is shown all his duties and responsibilities, Doc is busy bankrupting his business in Chicago.
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsLoretta YoungRay MillandReginald GardinerA best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsGreer GarsonLaurence OlivierMary BolandThe arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJoel McCreaLaraine DayHerbert MarshallOn the eve of World War II, a young American reporter tries to expose enemy agents in London.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsMartha ScottWilliam GarganEdmund GwennDedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsJean ArthurRobert CummingsCharles CoburnA tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
- DirectorNorman FosterStarsNancy KellyEdmund GwennJohn LoderInspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsFred MacMurrayMadeleine CarrollPatricia MorisonA Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsJack BennyKay FrancisJames EllisonIn 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
- DirectorHarold DanielsStarsEdmund GwennHans ConriedLumsden HareMedieval French legend tells of monks who devote the cold nights of winter to making gifts they offer to Our Lady when spring comes. On the night snowfall blocks the pass to Italy, the monks find a nearly frozen juggler, Bartholomew, and take him in. Fr. Cyprian invites him to stay for the winter. He proves inept at most tasks, is embarrassed by their hospitality, and is too poor to pay. Plus, his vagabond life draws the suspicion of young Fr. Fabian. When spring arrives, Bartholomew is anxious to leave, but Fr. Cyprian asks him to stay while they offer their gifts to Our Lady. The juggler has nothing to give. Should he just slip away?
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsMickey RooneyEdmund GwennIan HunterDuring World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingCedric HardwickeFrank LloydStarsGeorge KirbyDoreen MunroeMay BeattyDuring World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is resolutely against the sale. While they spend the night in an air-raid shelter she tells him the story of the building from its construction in 1804 until the present.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldErnst LubitschStarsJack BennyPriscilla LaneEddie 'Rochester' AndersonA compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsRoddy McDowallDonald CrispMay WhittyAfter her destitute family is forced to sell her, a collie named Lassie escapes from her new owner and begins the long trek from Scotland to her Yorkshire home.
- DirectorEdward A. BlattStarsJohn GarfieldPaul HenreidSydney GreenstreetPassengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGregory PeckThomas MitchellVincent PriceA young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJames CraigSigne HassoEdmund GwennAfter surviving a plane crash, a couple tries to find out why one of the passengers was carrying four wills for a million dollars, with each one naming him as the beneficiary.
- DirectorArch ObolerStarsEdmund GwennPhyllis ThaxterHenry H. Daniels Jr.A young woman has two distinct personalities, one of whom is evil and constantly gets her in trouble.
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsJames CraigFrances GiffordAva GardnerScientists have developed a method for winning at the track. Lovely Ava is a horse owner interest to a desperate gambler.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsPaul HenreidEleanor ParkerAlexis SmithA medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. Based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsKatharine HepburnRobert TaylorRobert MitchumMiddle-aged bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsEdmund GwennMaureen O'HaraJohn PayneAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWilliam PowellIrene DunneElizabeth TaylorA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
- DirectorLouis KingStarsLon McCallisterPeggy Ann GarnerEdmund GwennA story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). But David, with the help of a neighbor's daughter, Maggie Moore (Peggy Ann Garner), raises his own prize dog and beats out his father in a contest.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsVan HeflinLana TurnerDonna ReedA young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsJeanne CrainWilliam HoldenEdmund GwennA retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans' families.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsEdmund GwennDonald CrispTom DrakeWilliam McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to swim. At the same time he has the bigger problem that he is getting older and must ensure the glen will have a new local doctor ready.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsEdmund GwennDonald CrispGeraldine BrooksWhen Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
- DirectorEdward BuzzellStarsRosalind RussellRay MillandEdmund GwennIce-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy, touring North America and in possession of a keepsake of Susan's he wants to return. Desperate for publicity, lecture bureau press agent Teddy Evans magnifies this into a great romance. The efforts of both dignified principals to quash the story have the opposite effect; matters get more and more involved...
- DirectorAlexander HallStarsRonald ReaganCharles CoburnRuth HusseyTo her family's discomfiture, grandmother Louisa starts dating two men...a grocer and her son's boss.
- DirectorBretaigne WindustStarsDennis MorganBetsy DrakeZachary ScottA working girl rises in an ad agency after impressing a baby-food client with her lifelike dolls.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsBurt LancasterEdmund GwennDorothy McGuireGentle romantic comedy about a Secret Service Agent trying to catch a cold case counterfeiter and a United Nations translator.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsClifton WebbJoan BennettRobert CummingsAn angel disguises himself as a crusty old rancher in order to visit Earth and help an unborn child find suitable parents.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsJoseph CottenCorinne CalvetEdmund GwennA group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsAnn BlythEdmund GwennJohn McIntireSally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to St. Anne in hope of heavenly assistance. When Sally finds her lunch, she believes a miracle has happened, convincing her of a special relationship with the saint. Meanwhile, some animosity between the O'Moyne family and a neighbor grows and manifests itself in various comic situations. The plot develops as Sally, firm in her belief in St. Anne, emerges from adolescence an attractive young woman, and discovers the opposite sex. The feud, along with Sally's personal life, works itself to resolution in this light, nostalgic look at growing up Catholic in the 1940s and 1950s.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsMichael RennieRobert NewtonDebra PagetA parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.
- DirectorFrederick De CordovaStarsMaureen O'SullivanEdmund GwennCharles DrakeThe educated chimp moves in with a college football coach's family.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsVictor MaturePatricia NealEdmund GwennEnviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor. She enlists the aid of Johnnie Adams, an engraver, and Washington's most successful party-crasher, and Steve Bennett, a lobbyist for the opposition who comes over to Anne's side.
- DirectorHenry LevinStarsClifton WebbEdmund GwennGeorge WinslowSnobby TV star (Clifton Webb) worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy Scout leader in an effort to "get in touch." Overnight hikes and other adventures follow, all centered around one small boy who takes a liking to the old curmudgeon.
- DirectorIda LupinoStarsJoan FontaineIda LupinoEdmund GwennA man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsAnn BlythEdmund PurdomJohn EricsonA prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsJames WhitmoreEdmund GwennJoan WeldonThe earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJohn ForsytheShirley MacLaineEdmund GwennHarry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
- DirectorHerman HoffmanStarsJeff RichardsJarma LewisEdmund GwennA bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsEdmund GwennValentina CorteseJuan CalvoProfessor Jorge Serra Hamilton, an American atomic-bomb specialist, flees from his transcendental duties to take shelter incognito in Calabuch, a small, idyllic Spanish village on the Mediterranean shores. Oblivious to their guest's eminence, local residents spend their time engaged in their modest daily chores. The affable Professor Hamilton not only integrates perfectly into the small town, forging deep friendships with his neighbors, but he might also be finding the happiness he craves.