List of the best Emlyn Williams movies: Three Husbands(1950), The Last Days of Dolwyn(1949), Broken Blossoms(1936), The Last Days of Dolwyn(1949), The Stars Look Down(1939), Another Man's Poison(1951), The Girl in the News(1941), The Walking Stick(1970), The Iron Duke(1934), The Wreck of the Mary Deare(1959), The Deep Blue Sea(1955), Jamaica Inn(1939) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1950
79 Minutes
Maxwell Bard
Emlyn Williams Eve Arden Howard da Silva Ruth Warrick Vanessa Brown Shepperd Strudwick Robert Karnes Billie Burke Louise Erickson Jonathan Hale Jane Darwell
dead person poker player friend wife husband lover cheeky spirited witty heaven house bedroom small town infidelity afterlife secret relationships marital problems sex revenge
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly... See full summary »
Drama
1949
95 Minutes
Screenwriter
Edith Evans Emlyn Williams Richard Burton Anthony James Alan Aynesworth Barbara Couper Andrea Lea Hugh Griffith
An impoverished village becomes the site of a bitter power struggle between a callous developer and a stubborn dowager.
Drama
UK
1936
70 Minutes
Writer (Screenplay)
Dolly Haas Emlyn Williams Arthur Margetson Ernest Sefton C.V. France Ernest Jay Bertha Belmore Gibb McLaughlin Donald Calthrop Kathleen Harrison Kenneth Villiers
missionary young girl abusive father buddhist boxer high priest tense suspenseful intense brooding engaging gritty london buddhism saving the day protecting girlfriend child abuse pre-war britain vengeance rescue
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
Drama
1949
95 Minutes
Screenwriter
Edith Evans Emlyn Williams Richard Burton Anthony James Alan Aynesworth Barbara Couper Andrea Lea Hugh Griffith
An impoverished village becomes the site of a bitter power struggle between a callous developer and a stubborn dowager.
Drama
UK
1939
110 Minutes
Joe Gowlan
Michael Redgrave Margaret Lockwood Emlyn Williams Nancy Price Allan Jeayes Edward Rigby Cecil Parker Linden Travers Milton Rosmer George Carney Ivor Barnard
teacher wife businessperson wealthy man bleak emotional melodramatic england small town blue collar coal mining love triangle aspirations class distinctions sacrifice underdog rivalry 1930s
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1951
89 Minutes
Dr. Henderson
Bette Davis Gary Merrill Emlyn Williams Anthony Steel Barbara Murray Reginald Beckwith Edna Morris
novelist veterinarian husband secretary fiancé mysterious man tense suspenseful chilling dark intense uneasy northern england crime older woman-younger man infidelity murder poison deception fall
A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1941
78 Minutes
Tracy
Margaret Lockwood Barry Barnes Emlyn Williams Roger Livesly Margueretta Scott F. Wyndham Goldie
Nurse Anne Graham (Margaret Lockwood) is controversially, but rightly, acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1970
101 Minutes
Jack Foil
beautiful woman artist criminal art collector emotional suspenseful london auction house apartment deception betrayal romance crime art robbery discovery escape 1970s
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her ... See full summary »
Drama, History
UK
1934
88 Minutes
Bates
George Arliss Gladys Cooper Emlyn Williams Ellaline Terriss A.E. Matthews Alan Aynesworth Lesley Wareing Felix Aylmer Norma Varden
duke king inspiring fascinating england france belgium battlefield battle ambition courage heroism arthur wellesley, duke of wellington war quest rivalry rise 19th century
Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo, and served as prime minister.
Adventure
UK|USA
1959
105 Minutes
Sir Wilfred Falcett
Gary Cooper Charlton Heston Michael Redgrave Emlyn Williams Cecil Parker Alexander Knox Virginia McKenna Richard Harris
ship captain lawyer shipmate daughter emotional suspenseful ship shipwreck courtroom high seas english channel seafaring deception schemes trial sabotage mystery discovery 1950s
A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Drama
UK
1955
99 Minutes
Sir William Collyer
Vivien Leigh Kenneth More Eric Portman Emlyn Williams Moira Lister Alec McCowen
A woman unhappy in her passionless marriage leaves her husband for a younger and more ardent lover.
Adventure
UK
1939
99 Minutes
Harry
Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara Leslie Banks Emlyn Williams Robert Newton Wylie Watson Marie Ney Morland Graham Stephen Haggard Mervyn Johns
young woman gentleman aunt uncle peddler lawyer dark bleak tense cornwall, england road inn ship coast pirates family impersonation kidnapping dark secrets police work
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Drama
1982
104 Minutes
Bernard Laroque
George Segal Trevor Howard Robert Morley Emlyn Williams Alan Webb
retiree lawyer stranger young man brooding tense suspenseful swiss alps cabin trial stranded strange behavior acting mystery 1980s
Four elderly men of law make a stranded salesman (George Segal) comfortable, then place him on trial for murder.
Drama
UK
1963
125 Minutes
Dr. Weaver
Leslie Caron Tom Bell Brock Peters Avis Bunnage Emlyn Williams Cicely Courtneidge Bernard Lee Patricia Phoenix Nanette Newman
writer doctor boyfriend pregnant woman bleak gritty powerful moving london france boarding house romance abortion pregnancy friendship growing up love sacrifice discovery 1960s
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
Drama
UK
1938
112 Minutes
Owen
Robert Donat Rosalind Russell Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson Emlyn Williams Penelope Dudley Ward Francis L. Sullivan Mary Clare Cecil Parker Nora Swinburne Edward Chapman
doctor wife miner gutsy engaging inspiring moving wales london mining town hypocrisy tuberculosis medicine aspirations wretched excess underdog 1930s
Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his ... See full summary »
Adventure
UK|USA
1952
106 Minutes
Wamba
Robert Taylor Elizabeth Taylor Joan Fontaine George Sanders Emlyn Williams Robert Douglas Finlay Currie Felix Aylmer Francis De Wolff Guy Rolfe Norman Wooland
knight king prince pretty woman robin hood engaging spirited england castle wilderness forest rescue romance competition kidnapping adventure rivalry rescue love 12th century
A knight seeks to free the captive King Richard (Norman Wooland) and put him back on the throne.
Comedy
UK
1941
135 Minutes
Snobby Price
Wendy Hiller Rex Harrison Robert Morley Robert Newton Emlyn Williams Sybil Thorndike Deborah Kerr David Tree Stanley Holloway
industrialist daughter boyfriend preacher witty engaging england factory social change wealth disillusionment family poverty social standing discovery quest growing up 1940s
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Horror
UK
1967
92 Minutes
Alain de Montfaucon
Deborah Kerr David Niven Donald Pleasence Edward Mulhare Flora Robson Sharon Tate Emlyn Williams David Hemmings John Le Mesurier Suky Appleby Donald Bisset
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
1938
84 Minutes
Joe Cunningham William Hartnell Michael Martin Harvey Anthony Holles Allan Jeayes George Merritt Ronald Shiner Emlyn Williams Anna Konstam Yolande Terrell
truck driver waitress humphrey bogart suspenseful fiery california los angeles love triangle murder unrequited love mystery 1940s