List of the best Compton Bennett movies: The Years Between(1946), King Solomon's Mines(1950), The Seventh Veil(1945), That Forsyte Woman(1950), Beyond the Curtain(1961), The Gift Horse(1952) ... ...
Drama
UK
1946
100 Minutes
Director
A Member of Parliament, who had been reportedly killed in action during World War II, unexpectedly returns to his family, only to find that his wife has been persuaded to take his seat in the House of Commons.
Adventure, Romance, Action
USA
1950
102 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Compton Bennett Stewart Granger Richard Carlson Hugo Haas Lowell Gilmore John Banner Henry Rowland
explorer wife fugitive tribal leader thrilling emotional africa mountain desert exploration guilt wild animals romance treasure missing persons pursuit rescue 1950s
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
Drama
UK
1945
95 Minutes
Director
suicidal person pianist psychiatrist crippled man orphan melodramatic passionate mental institution england royal albert hall mental illness music jealousy amnesia relationships hypnosis forbidden love discovery transformation 1940s
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Drama
USA
1950
114 Minutes
Director
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.
Drama
1961
88 Minutes
Director
Richard Greene Eva Bartok Marius Goring Lucie Mannheim Andree Melly George Mikell John Welsh Denis Shaw Annette Carell Gaylord Cavallaro Leonard Sachs
young woman captain german officer german spy intense suspenseful thrilling disturbing patriotic dresden, germany east germany west germany postwar germany berlin wall trapped danger lie revenge rivalry rise
A British flight officer (Richard Greene) tries to rescue a stewardess (Eva Bartok) whose plane went down over East Germany.
War
1952
99 Minutes
Director
Trevor Howard Richard Attenborough Sonny Tufts James Donald Joan Rice Bernard Lee Dora Bryan Hugh Williams Robin Bailey Meredith Edwards John Forrest
naval officer commander cook admiral seaman fiancée inspiring powerful gutsy england atlantic ocean ship france coast bar world war ii british empire naval warfare redemption personality clash
An English captain (Trevor Howard) and crew make the most of an old U.S. destroyer on loan during World War II.