List of the best Jimmy Hanley movies: Room to Let(1949), The Black Rider(1954), The Galloping Major(1951), The Blue Lamp(1950), There Ain't No Justice(1939), Boys Will Be Boys(1935), Murder in Reverse(1945), Born for Glory(1935), It Always Rains on Sunday(1947), Satellite in the Sky(1956), Little Friend(1934), Gaslight(1940) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1949
68 Minutes
Jimmy Hanley Valentine Dyall Christine Silver Merle Tottenham Constance Smith Charles Hawtrey Aubrey Dexter
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In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Adventure
1954
66 Minutes
Jimmy Hanley Rona Anderson Leslie Dwyer Lionel Jeffries Beatrice Varley Michael Golden Valerie Hanson Vincent Ball Edwin Richfield Kenneth Connor Robert Rietty
When a reporter (Jimmy Hanley) investigates rumors of a ghost, he finds smugglers using a local castle as a hideout.
Comedy
UK
1951
82 Minutes
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A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.
Crime, Drama
UK
1950
84 Minutes
PC Andy Mitchell
Jack Warner Dirk Bogarde Jimmy Hanley Robert Flemyng Bernard Lee Peggy Evans Patric Doonan Bruce Seton Frederick Piper Betty Ann Davies
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The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.
Drama
UK
1939
83 Minutes
Tommy Mutch
Michael Wilding Jill Furse Jimmy Hanley Edward Rigby Mary Clare Phyllis Stanley Edward Chapman Richard Ainley Gus McNaughton Michael Hogarth Richard Norris
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Comedy
1935
75 Minutes
Cyril Brown
Will Hay Gordon Harker Jimmy Hanley Davy Burnaby Norma Varden Claude Dampier Charles Farrell Percy Walsh
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Drama
1945
80 Minutes
Peter Rogers
At the end of a long stint in prison, a man framed for murder hunts his "victim" who is very much alive.
Adventure
UK
1935
69 Minutes
Lt. Somerville
Betty Balfour Walter Forde John Mills Barry MacKay Jimmy Hanley Howard Marion-Crawford H. G. Stoker
In 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
Crime, Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Whitey
Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Edward Chapman Jimmy Hanley John Carol John Slater Susan Shaw Sydney Tafler Alfie Bass Betty Ann Davies
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An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Sci-Fi
UK
1956
84 Minutes
Larry Noble
Kieron Moore Lois Maxwell Donald Wolfit Bryan Forbes Jimmy Hanley Thea Gregory Barry Keegan Alan Gifford Shirley Lawrence Walter Hudd Donald Gray
The British launch the world's first orbital vehicle. Their military sends a super-bomb along, which goes wrong and threatens the crew and a stowaway.
Drama
UK
1934
85 Minutes
Leonard Parry
Matheson Lang Lydia Sherwood Nova Pilbeam Arthur Margetson Jean Cadell Jimmy Hanley Gibb McLaughlin Diana Cotton
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Mystery & Thriller
1940
88 Minutes
Cobb
Anton Walbrook Diana Wynyard Frank Pettingell Cathleen Cordell Robert Newton Jimmy Hanley
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A schizoid Victorian (Anton Walbrook) tries to drive his wife (Diana Wynyard) mad; a Scotland Yard detective (Frank Pettingell) figures out why.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1968
89 Minutes
Patrick
Eric Porter Hildegarde Neff Suzanna Leigh Tony Beckley Nigel Stock Neil McCallum Ben Carruthers Jimmy Hanley James Cossins Dana Gillespie Victor Maddern
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The captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter-all of them with dark secrets to keep-find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed.
Drama
UK
1946
108 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Rachel Kempson Jack Warner Frederick Leister Mervyn Johns Rachel Thomas Gladys Henson Gordon Jackson Elliott Mason Robert Wyndham Basil Radford
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In 1940, a concentration-camp escapee assumes the identity of a dead British officer, only to become a prisoner of war.
Drama
UK
1945
137 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Robert Newton Renee Asherson Leslie Banks Esmond Knight Leo Genn Felix Aylmer Ralph Truman Harcourt Williams Ivy St. Helier Ernest Thesiger
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In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.