List of the best Harold French movies: Quartet(1948), Trio(1950), Quiet Weekend(1946), Unpublished Story(1942), The Paris Express(1952), Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue(1953), Adam and Evalyn(1949), Mr. Emmanuel(1945), Secret Mission(1942), English Without Tears(1944), The Day Will Dawn(1942) ... ...
Drama
UK
1948
120 Minutes
Harold French Ralph Smart Dirk Bogarde Francoise Rosay Mervyn Johns Ian Fleming James Robertson Justice Mai Zetterling Bernard Lee Cecil Parker
tennis player father pianist colonel mistress poet amusing lighthearted charming england paris monte carlo, monaco hobby tennis poetry piano sacrifice transformation adventure 1940s
Four of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author. In the first story, "The Facts of Life", a young man with great potential on the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1950
91 Minutes
Director
vicar verger landlady jewelry dealer lover patient somber touching church shop cruise ship sanatorium literacy business arrogance health death love transformation rivalry
Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.
Comedy
UK
1946
90 Minutes
Director
Derek Farr Frank Cellier Marjorie Fielding George Thorpe Barbara White Helen Shingler Edward Rigby Josephine Wilson Owen Whitby Ballard Berkeley Judith Furse
family friend socialite quirky amusing airy cheeky lighthearted spirited country house poaching romance vacation adventure 1940s
The ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage : the son and his socialite flirt hated by his adoring ... See full summary »
War
UK
1942
91 Minutes
Director
Richard Greene Valerie Hobson Basil Radford Roland Culver Brefni O'Rorke Miles Malleson Andre Morell Frederick Cooper Renee Gadd Henry Jorell
A journalist investigates a network of German fifth columnists operating in the midst of the Blitz.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1952
80 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Märta Torén Marius Goring Michael Nightingale Felix Aylmer Herbert Lom Gibb McLaughlin Lucie Mannheim Joan St. Clair Robin Alalouf Ferdinand Mayne
A Dutch company's owner bankrupts his own company, burns the incriminating ledgers and plans to run to Paris with the company payroll but he is caught in the act by his accountant who challenges his actions, leading to a reversal of roles.
Adventure
UK
1953
89 Minutes
Director
Richard Todd Glynis Johns James Robertson Justice Michael Gough Jean Taylor Smith Geoffrey Keen Finlay Currie Archie Duncan Russell Waters Marjorie Fielding Eric Pohlmann
The wartime adventures of Scotish highland leader Rob Roy MacGregor during the reign of King George I in the 18th century.
Romance
UK
1949
92 Minutes
Director
Stewart Granger Jean Simmons Edwin Styles Wilfrid Hyde-White Helen Cherry Raymond Young
gambler father figure pretty woman girlfriend brother amusing emotional united states household romantic dilemma relationships fatherhood adoption gambling deception forbidden love growing up transformation 1940s
When a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue.
Drama
UK
1945
97 Minutes
Director
jew old man refugee mother police officer nazi bleak disturbing somber melodramatic england germany city nazism separation anti-semitism torture journey reunion rescue
An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1942
82 Minutes
Director
Hugh Williams Carla Lehman James Mason Roland Culver Michael Wilding Herbert Lom Stewart Granger
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Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion.
Romance
1944
89 Minutes
Director
An English aristocrat (Penelope Ward) falls in love with her family's butler (Michael Wilding) during a bird-migration flap in Geneva.
Drama, War
1942
99 Minutes
Director
Ralph Richardson Deborah Kerr Hugh Williams Griffith Jones Francis L. Sullivan Roland Culver Finlay Currie Niall MacGinnis
journalist british man german woman daughter thrilling suspenseful emotional intense germany norway ship world war ii german occupation secrets romance danger rivalry love pursuit
An English journalist (Hugh Williams) and a Norwegian fisherman's daughter (Deborah Kerr) guide RAF bombers to a U-boat base.