List of the best Eliot Makeham movies: Dark Journey(1937), Bell-Bottom George(1943), Give Us the Moon(1944), Decameron Nights(1953), Vacation From Marriage(1945), Pastor Hall(1940), Wings and the Woman(1942), Night Train to Munich(1940), Inspector Hornleigh(1939), Storm in a Teacup(1937), The Crimson Pirate(1952), The Mill on the Floss(1937) ... ...
Adventure
UK
1937
82 Minutes
Anatole Bergen
Conrad Veidt Vivien Leigh Anthony Bushell Joan Gardner Ursula Jeans Eliot Makeham Margery Pickard Austin Trevor Sam Livesey Cecil Parker Edmund Willard
double agent soldier doctor thrilling passionate sweden france submarine love war espionage secret rescue adventure forbidden love 1910s
During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
Comedy, War
UK
1943
97 Minutes
Johnson
George Formby Anne Firth Reginald Purdell Peter Murray Hill Charles Farrell Eliot Makeham
waiter sailor german spy nazi wren admiral witty engaging lighthearted madcap amusing hilarious england mistaken identity career aspirations world war ii musical performance navy humor adventure
Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1944
95 Minutes
Dumka
Margaret Lockwood Vic Oliver Roland Culver Peter Graves Frank Cellier Eliot Makeham George Relph Max Bacon Alan Keith Jean Simmons Iris Lang
war hero hotel owner pilot outcast russian amusing offbeat playful madcap united kingdom hotel club london secret society work quest transformation underdog 20th century
In Britain after the end of WWII, it is a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of... See full summary »
Romance
UK|Spain
1953
93 Minutes
Governor of Majorca
Joan Fontaine Louis Jourdan Joan Collins Binnie Barnes Godfrey Tearle Eliot Makeham Meinhart Maur Van Boolen Gordon Bell Noel Purcell Hugh Morton
writer noblewoman pirate love interest husband sultan cheeky charming fascinating florence, italy villa spain ship bedroom palace giovanni boccaccio storytelling flirtation deception infidelity
The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
92 Minutes
Mr. Staines
Robert Donat Deborah Kerr Glynis Johns Ann Todd Roland Culver Elliott Mason Eliot Makeham Brefni O'Rorke Edward Rigby Muriel George Allan Jeayes
sailor wife friend nurse lover melodramatic emotional england london marriage war romance separation infidelity love transformation discovery 1940s
A dull married couple, separated by their enlistment during World War II, reunite after three years to find that they have become very different people.
UK
1940
95 Minutes
Pippermann
Wilfrid Lawson Nova Pilbeam Seymour Hicks Marius Goring Brian Worth Percy Walsh Lina Barrie Eliot Makeham Peter Cotes Edmund Willard Bernard Miles
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's ... See full summary »
Biography
UK
1942
96 Minutes
Mayor of Croydon
Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne Brefni O'Rorke Charles Carson Martita Hunt Anthony Shaw Eliot Makeham David Horne Miles Malleson
aviatrix aviator husband wife solicitor government official emotional gripping rousing thrilling england house airplane amy johnson marriage flying husband/wife relationship fame world war ii rise
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1940
93 Minutes
Schwab
Margaret Lockwood Rex Harrison Paul Henreid Basil Radford Naunton Wayne James Harcourt Felix Aylmer F. Wyndham Goldie Roland Culver Eliot Makeham Raymond Huntley
scientist daughter undercover agent czech nazi thrilling cheeky gutsy train concentration camp naval base germany prague england world war ii espionage scientific experiments nazism technology journey
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1939
76 Minutes
Alexander Parkinson
Gordon Harker Alastair Sim Miki Hood Hugh Williams Wally Patch Steven Geray Edward Underdown Gibb McLaughlin Ronald Adam Eliot Makeham
inspector detective thief murderer sergeant government official witty suspenseful amusing england crime scene scam murder theft investigation stocks mystery pursuit 1930s
Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.
Comedy
UK
1937
87 Minutes
Sheriff
Vivien Leigh Ian Dalrymple Rex Harrison Cecil Parker Sara Allgood Ursula Jeans Gus McNaughton Arthur Wontner Edgar K. Bruce Robert Hale Eliot Makeham
journalist politician daughter woman dog cheery charming scotland small town court journalism unlikely romance reputation scandal trial pets rivalry love 1930s
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Adventure
USA|UK
1952
104 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Nick Cravat Eva Bartok Torin Thatcher Christopher Lee James Hayter Leslie Bradley Margot Grahame Noel Purcell Frederick Leister Eliot Makeham
pirate resistance leader daughter lieutenant crew member love interest airy lighthearted spirited caribbean island ship revolution piracy romance seafaring reward schemes discovery adventure
During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.
Drama
1937
94 Minutes
Geraldine Fitzgerald Frank Lawton Victoria Hopper Fay Compton James Mason Griffith Jones Sam Livesey Pauline de Chalus Mary Clare Athene Seyler Martita Hunt
owner solicitor daughter son mother melodramatic emotional tense england household river feud family scandal romance flooding forbidden love rivalry 19th century
A lawyer's crippled son (Frank Lawton) loves the daughter (Geraldine Fitzgerald) of a millowner ruined by his father in 19th-century England.
Drama
UK
1954
99 Minutes
Robert Morley Kay Walsh Edward Underdown Fella Edmonds Bill Owen Charles Victor Honor Blackman Wilfrid Hyde-White Ronald Ward Howard Marion-Crawford Sidney James
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.