List of the best Esmond Knight movies: Waltzes From Vienna(1934), The Element of Crime(1984), The End of the River(1947), The Silver Fleet(1943), Peeping Tom(1960), Henry V(1945), A Canterbury Tale(1944), Black Narcissus(1947), Gone to Earth(1950), The Halfway House(1944), The Prince and the Showgirl(1957), Contraband(1940) ... ...
Romance, Biography
1934
81 Minutes
Esmond Knight Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn Fay Compton Frank Vosper Robert Hale Charles Heslop Betty Huntley-Wright Hindle Edgar Sybil Grove Bill Shine
Sci-Fi
Denmark
1984
100 Minutes
Osborne
Michael Elphick Esmond Knight Me Me Lai Jerold Wells Ahmed El Shenawi Astrid Henning-Jensen János Herskó Stig Larsson Camilla Overbye Roos Mogens Rukov Leif Magnusson
detective writer prostitute police chief murderer disturbing dreamy bleak dystopia europe city cairo serial murders hypnosis investigation criminology amnesia wretched excess mystery quest
A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.
Drama
UK
1947
83 Minutes
Dantos
Sabu Bibi Ferreira Esmond Knight Antoinette Cellier Robert Douglas Torin Thatcher Orlando Martins Raymond Lovell James Hayter Nicolette Bernard Minto Cato
tribesman chief englishman girlfriend priest communist uneasy disheartening amazon jungle boat england docks courtroom exile slavery social customs false accusations trials racism
A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder. The story of how this happened and how he got into ... See full summary »
War
1943
88 Minutes
Von Schiffer
Ralph Richardson Gordon Wellesley Googie Withers Esmond Knight Beresford Egan Frederick Burtwell Kathleen Byron Willem Akkerman Dorothy Gordon Charles Victor John Longden
Considered a traitor for helping Nazis construct submarines, a Dutch engineer (Ralph Richardson) later redeems himself.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
109 Minutes
Arthur Baden
Karl Boehm Moira Shearer Anna Massey Maxine Audley Esmond Knight Bartlett Mullins Shirley Anne Field Michael Goodliffe Brenda Bruce Martin Miller Pamela Green
murderer victim neighbor police officer psychiatrist photographer dark fascinating intense disturbing london film set hotel apartment voyeurism fear serial murders filmmaking secret research
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Drama
UK
1945
137 Minutes
Fluellen
Laurence Olivier Robert Newton Renee Asherson Leslie Banks Esmond Knight Leo Genn Felix Aylmer Ralph Truman Harcourt Williams Ivy St. Helier Ernest Thesiger
soldier king leader military officer queen creative intense england france war marriage military royalty empowerment fall rise rivalry 16th century
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1944
124 Minutes
Narrator, Seven-Sisters Soldier, Village Idiot
Emeric Pressburger Eric Portman Sheila Sim John Sweet Dennis Price Esmond Knight Charles Hawtrey Hay Petrie
soldier sergeant shopkeeper criminal lighthearted suspenseful amusing cathedral england small town hotel world war ii traveling mystery friendship discovery transformation mystery pursuit 1940s
A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
100 Minutes
The Old General
Deborah Kerr Emeric Pressburger Sabu David Farrar Flora Robson Jean Simmons Esmond Knight Kathleen Byron Jenny Laird Judith Furse May Hallatt
sister nun government official native general young girl intense passionate brooding dreamy himalayas palace school hospital religious beliefs mysterious past obsession unusual behavior missionary work cultural differences
A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Abel Woodus
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
Drama
UK
1944
95 Minutes
David Davies
Francoise Rosay Glynis Johns Tom Walls Mervyn Johns Alfred Drayton Esmond Knight
stranger ghost mysterious drifter suspenseful engaging inn hotel countryside strangers secret loss storm escape discovery 1940s
A group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...
Comedy
UK|USA
1957
117 Minutes
Hoffman
Marilyn Monroe Laurence Olivier Sybil Thorndike Jeremy Spenser Richard Wattis Esmond Knight Paul Hardwick Rosamund Greenwood Aubrey Dexter Maxine Audley Jean Kent
king prince government official actress ambassador queen amusing winsome melodramatic london embassy bedroom ballroom nightclub coronation treason courtship secret performance repression
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Adventure
1940
91 Minutes
Mr.Pidgeon
Conrad Veidt Valerie Hobson Hay Petrie Joss Ambler Raymond Lovell Esmond Knight Charles Victor Phoebe Kershaw Harold Warrender John Longden Eric Maturin
A ship's captain gets caught up in a German spy ring when he follows two people who stole his shore passes.
Romance, Drama
UK
1948
133 Minutes
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
Emeric Pressburger Moira Shearer Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Robert Helpmann Leonide Massine Albert Basserman Ludmilla Tcherina Esmond Knight
dancer instructor composer emotional passionate spirited france waterfront stage ambition dance love romance forbidden love rivalry discovery rise sacrifice 1940s
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Adventure
1977
103 Minutes
Armand
Richard Chamberlain Patrick McGoohan Louis Jourdan Jenny Agutter Ian Holm Ralph Richardson Vivien Merchant Brenda Bruce Esmond Knight Godfrey Quigley Emrys James
king twin musketeer mother thrilling touching gutsy france bastille palace chateau ballroom king louis xiv politics power struggle mistaken identity torture discovery underdog rescue
Musketeer D'Artagnan (Louis Jourdan) foils Louis XIV's (Richard Chamberlain) plot to keep his identical twin off the throne.
Drama, History
UK
1955
155 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Claire Bloom Cedric Hardwicke Ralph Richardson John Gielgud Mary Kerridge Pamela Brown Alec Clunes Stanley Baker Michael Gough Laurence Naismith
king richard iii king edward iv lady courtier soldier brooding somber powerful england palace battlefield ambition family palace intrigue murder deception rise fall 15th century
Shakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.
Drama, History
UK
1969
145 Minutes
Richard Burton Geneviève Bujold Irene Papas Anthony Quayle John Colicos Michael Hordern Katharine Blake Peter Jeffrey Joseph O'Conor William Squire Valerie Gearon
king queen cardinal maid pope heir dark hedonistic england royal court london king henry viii anne boleyn catherine of aragon divorce religion royalty forbidden love fall 16th century
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Adventure
USA
1955
118 Minutes
Rossana Podestà Jack Sernas Cedric Hardwicke Stanley Baker Niall MacGinnis Nora Swinburne Robert Douglas Torin Thatcher Harry Andrews Janette Scott Ronald Lewis
helen of troy greek god brash brutal engaging gory intense melodramatic powerful spirited thrilling troy rescue trojan wars rescue love ancient times
The Iliad's story of the Trojan war, told from the Trojan viewpoint.