List of the best John Howard Davies movies: The Rocking Horse Winner(1949), Oliver Twist(1948), The Magic Box(1951) ... ...
Drama
UK
1949
91 Minutes
Valerie Hobson John Howard Davies John Mills Ronald Squire Hugh Sinclair Charles Goldner Susan Richards
boy mother father gardener dark eerie intense sad racetrack house bedroom england greed gambling family poverty horse racing growing up sacrifice wretched excess
A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
Drama
1948
105 Minutes
Robert Newton Alec Guinness John Howard Davies Kay Walsh Francis L. Sullivan Anthony Newley Henry Stephenson Mary Clare Josephine Stuart Ralph Truman
orphan pickpocket criminal kidnapper wealthy man girlfriend dense gripping melodramatic london orphanage street hideout child abuse crime class distinctions kidnapping growing up escape pursuit
Dickens' London waif (John Howard Davies) is pressed into Fagin's (Alec Guinness) street gang led by bully Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) and the Artful Dodger.
Biography
USA
1951
103 Minutes
Robert Donat Maria Schell Margaret Johnston Janette Scott Bernard Miles Frederick Valk John Howard Davies Eric Portman Richard Attenborough
inventor photographer family wife somber solemn moving england inventions movie camera family dysfunction quest fall love victorian era
Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.