List of the best Jack Allen movies: Thunder Over Tangier(1957), The Four Feathers(1939), The Great Armored Car Swindle(1961), The Headless Ghost(1959), Breaking the Sound Barrier(1952), Elizabeth of Ladymead(1948) ... ...
Drama
UK
1957
66 Minutes
Rex
Robert Hutton Lisa Gastoni Martin Benson Derek Sydney Jack Allen Leonard Sachs
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates. International crook Voss sends pretty Michele after him. Arriving in London, Armstrong accidentally swaps... See full summary »
Adventure
UK
1939
115 Minutes
Lieutenant Willoughby
John Clements Ralph Richardson C. Aubrey Smith June Duprez Allan Jeayes Jack Allen Donald Gray Frederick Culley Amid Taftazani Henry Oscar John Laurie
military officer friend girlfriend soldier emotional melodramatic africa desert war zone armed conflict expedition imperialism deception honor redemption quest adventure discovery transformation 1890s
A timid British Army officer has quit and burns his last day summons to a war in Egypt. Calling him a coward, his girl friend and 3 officer friends give him a white feather. In redemption, he shadows his friends in war to save their lives.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1961
59 Minutes
Ernest Winlatter
Peter Reynolds Dermot Walsh Joanna Dunham Lisa Gastoni Brian Cobby Jack Allen Geoffrey Denton Arnold Diamond Richard Golding John Heller Mercia Mansfield
nephew businessman international spy confident lighthearted suspenseful tense printing plant united kingdom fraud money laundering money international conspiracy theft adventure discovery quest pursuit sacrifice temptation
The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is ... See full summary »
Horror
1959
63 Minutes
The Live Earl of Ambrose
Richard Lyon Liliane Sottane David Rose Clive Revill Carl Bernard Trevor Barnett Jack Allen Alexander Archdale John Stacy Mary Barclay
ghost student tense amusing haunted location castle school trip search ghosts discovery mystery 1950s
Three students visiting a haunted castle depart from their tour group long enough to help the resident headless ghost.
Adventure
1952
115 Minutes
"Windy" Williams
Ralph Richardson Ann Todd Nigel Patrick John Justin Joseph Tomelty Denholm Elliott Jack Allen Ralph Michael
pilot oil baron designer daughter wife son inspiring dark airplane household england airplane hangar aviation marriage father/daughter relationship death sound barrier quest sacrifice rise
A British manufacturer (Ralph Richardson) loses a son and a son-in-law (Nigel Patrick) trying to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Comedy, Drama
1948
97 Minutes
Maj. Wrigley in 1946
Anna Neagle Hugh Williams Michael Laurence Bernard Lee Nicholas Phipps Hilda Bayly Isabel Jeans Catherine Paul Jack Allen Ken Warrington Michael Shepley
soldiers wife suffragette flapper activist brooding melodramatic melancholy passionate family home affair war bride crimean war boer war world war i world war ii forbidden love temptation transformation discovery
Four generations of British wives shock their returning husbands with confessions of their wartime affairs.