List of the best Aubrey Mather movies: Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear(1945), Man in the Mirror(1936), The Lodger(1944), The Undying Monster(1942), Be Mine Tonight(1932), It Happened in Brooklyn(1947), The Secret Garden(1949), Hello, Frisco, Hello(1943), Jane Eyre(1944), That Forsyte Woman(1950), As You Like It(1936), The Importance of Being Earnest(1952) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
1945
69 Minutes
Bruce Alastair
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Dennis Hoey Aubrey Mather Paul Cavanagh Holmes Herbert Gavin Muir
detective sidekick wealthy man butler sherlock holmes crafty thrilling confident castle office dinner party murder mystery insurance dining investigation mystery temptation 1890s
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) go to Scotland to check on mortality at a heavily insured club.
Comedy
1936
85 Minutes
Edward Everett Horton Genevieve Tobin Ursula Jeans Garry Marsh Aubrey Mather Alastair Sim
businessman alter ego love interest interpreter amusing charming playful creative lighthearted office new life confidence self-confidence magic mirror relationships adventure discovery pursuit love rise
An aggressive alter ego allows a mild-mannered man to accomplish feats that he would ordinarily be too timid to try.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
84 Minutes
Superintendent Sutherland
Merle Oberon George Sanders Laird Cregar Cedric Hardwicke Sara Allgood Aubrey Mather Queenie Leonard Doris Lloyd David Clyde Helena Pickard Lumsden Hare
serial killer inspector singer maid lodger chilling suspenseful disturbing london attic music hall hospital serial murders mystery investigation unusual behavior jack the ripper mystery discovery pursuit
A landlady suspects her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Horror
USA
1942
63 Minutes
Inspector Craig
Jimmy Ellison Heather Angel John Howard Bramwell Fletcher Heather Thatcher Aubrey Mather
father daughter son inspector werewolf eerie suspenseful england estate curse lycanthropy family history investigation murder metamorphosis discovery 1940s
Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1932
70 Minutes
Balthasar
Jan Kiepura Sonnie Hale Magda Schneider Edmund Gwenn Athene Seyler Betty Chester Aubrey Mather
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
105 Minutes
Digby John
Frank Sinatra Kathryn Grayson Peter Lawford Jimmy Durante Gloria Grahame Marcy McGuire Aubrey Mather Tamara Shayne
singer clerk songwriter schoolteacher veteran janitor lighthearted amusing charming brooklyn, n.y. music store neighborhood music love triangle show business ambition new life love adventure 1940s
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. When he returns after the war, he soon finds that Brooklyn is not so nice after all. He is ... See full summary »
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1949
92 Minutes
Dr. Griddlestone
Margaret O'Brien Herbert Marshall Dean Stockwell Gladys Cooper Elsa Lanchester Brian Roper Reginald Owen Aubrey Mather George Zucco Lowell Gilmore Billy Bevan
invalid orphan father son housekeeper uncle endearing uplifting sad england garden mansion abandonment maturing acceptance grief healing secret growing up transformation
A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.
Musical, Romance
USA
1943
98 Minutes
Douglas Dawson
Alice Faye John Payne Jack Oakie Lynn Bari Laird Cregar June Havoc Ward Bond Aubrey Mather John Archer George Barbier Frank Orth
socialite entertainer singer showman saloon owner charming uplifting playful england san francisco saloon theater house fame vaudeville marrying for money comeback love triangle show business transformation
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Colonel Dent
Joan Fontaine Orson Welles Margaret O'Brien Peggy Ann Garner John Sutton Sara Allgood Henry Daniell Agnes Moorehead Aubrey Mather Edith Barrett Barbara Everest
governess pretty woman aristocrat housekeeper maid young girl emotional melodramatic dark england countryside estate yorkshire moors forbidden love romance may-december romance poverty class distinctions forbidden love love
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
Drama
USA
1950
114 Minutes
James Forsyte
Errol Flynn Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Robert Young Janet Leigh Harry Davenport Stanley Logan Lumsden Hare Aubrey Mather Matt Moore
wealthy man wife lover niece friend cousin melodramatic emotional england london household adultery romance death rape wealth family forbidden love rivalry wretched excess
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
Comedy
UK
1936
96 Minutes
Corin
Elisabeth Bergner Laurence Olivier Sophie Stewart Henry Ainley Richard Ainley Leon Quartermaine Mackenzie Ward Felix Aylmer Aubrey Mather Austin Trevor
A Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1952
95 Minutes
Merriman
Michael Redgrave Michael Denison Edith Evans Richard Wattis Margaret Rutherford Joan Greenwood Dorothy Tutin Walter Hudd Miles Malleson Aubrey Mather
impostor wealthy man woman governess aunt priest witty hilarious emotional england london country house apartment identity wealth marriage social standing deception family love
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1936
76 Minutes
Sylvia Sidney Oscar Homolka Desmond Tester John Loder Joyce Barbour Matthew Boulton S.J. Warmington William Dewhurst Austin Trevor Torin Thatcher Aubrey Mather
saboteur detective wife brother professor dark intense suspenseful london movie theater sabotage terrorism lie bomb working undercover mystery discovery 1930s
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Fantasy
USA
1943
112 Minutes
Gene Tierney Don Ameche Charles Coburn Marjorie Main Laird Cregar Spring Byington Allyn Joslyn Eugene Pallette Signe Hasso Louis Calhern Helene Reynolds
devil playboy husband wife parent offbeat amusing heartwarming uplifting new york city hell afterlife death infidelity family morality metamorphosis love wretched excess 19th century
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Romance
USA
1940
110 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Ray Milland Dennis O'Keefe Walter Abel Dick Purcell George Zucco Frank Puglia Esther Dale Paul Leyssac Ann Codee Stanley Logan
pilot journalist editor priest love interest lighthearted witty patriotic spain paris europe ocean liner prisoners of war journalism love world war ii career escape transformation 1930s
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Comedy
USA
1948
99 Minutes
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Elizabeth Taylor Peter Lawford Cesar Romero Lucile Watson Nigel Bruce Mary Boland Reginald Owen Ian Wolfe Phyllis Morris
performer daughter husband painter mother-in-law acrobat amusing endearing london france ship cabin mother/daughter relationship wedding family class conflict deception love quest forbidden love
A London chorus girl tries to rekindle her relationships with her daughter, who she gave up as an infant, and her estranged husband, when the former becomes engaged.
Horror
USA
1941
114 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Ingrid Bergman Lana Turner Donald Crisp Ian Hunter Barton MacLane C. Aubrey Smith Sara Allgood Peter Godfrey Frederick Worlock William Tannen
dr. jekyll mr. hyde mistress brooding gripping suspenseful london laboratory split personality human nature experiments evil metamorphosis mystery 1880s
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.