List of the best David MacDonald movies: Desert Victory(1943), Christopher Columbus(1949), The Moonraker(1958), Snowbound(1947), The Bad Lord Byron(1949), Devil Girl From Mars(1954), Good Time Girl(1948), Diamond City(1949), Small Hotel(1957) ... ...
Documentary
UK
1943
60 Minutes
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The Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including a re-enactment.
Biography
UK
1949
104 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Florence Eldridge Francis L. Sullivan Kathleen Ryan Derek Bond Nora Swinburne Abraham Sofaer Linden Travers James Robertson Justice Dennis Vance Richard Nugent
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Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Drama, History
UK
1958
82 Minutes
Director
George Baker Sylvia Sims Peter Arne Marius Goring Clive Morton Gary Raymond Richard Leech Iris Russell Michael Anderson Jr. Paul Whitsun-Jones Patrick Troughton
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After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish.
Adventure
UK
1947
85 Minutes
Director
A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps. From "The Lonely Skier" by Hammond Innes.
Biography
UK
1949
85 Minutes
Director
Seriously ill on a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron dreams of being judged, upon his death, as either a poet and soldier or as a seducer and libertine. Amongst the witnesses called ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
UK
1954
77 Minutes
Director
Hazel Court Patricia Laffan Hugh McDermott Peter Reynolds Adrienne Corri Joseph Tomelty Sophie Stewart John Laurie Anthony Richmond James Edmund Stuart Hibberd
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An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
Crime, Drama
1948
81 Minutes
Director
Jean Kent Dennis Price Griffith Jones Flora Robson Herbert Lom Bonar Colleano Hugh McDermott Peter Glenville Nora Swinburne Elwyn Brook-Jones Jill Balcon
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A British magistrate (Flora Robson) tells the story of a wayward girl (Jean Kent) who joins two GI deserters in a crime spree.
Adventure
1949
90 Minutes
Director
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A British miner (David Farrar) fights a rum trader for power in a rowdy makeshift city in 1870s South Africa.
Comedy, Drama
1957
60 Minutes
Director
Gordon Harker Marie Lohr John Loder Irene Handl Janet Munro Billie Whitelaw Ruth Trouncer Francis Matthews
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The unusual inmates of a not-too-prosperous hotel are worried when headquarters sends an efficiency expert to visit.