List of the best Joss Ambler movies: Battle for Music(1945), Come on George(1939), Contraband(1940), Trouble Brewing(1939), The Peterville Diamond(1942), The Silver Fleet(1943), Courageous Mr. Penn(1941) ... ...
Drama
UK
1945
87 Minutes
Mr. Clifton
Hay Petrie Joss Ambler Mavis Clarke
musician conductor music lover businessman government official emotional powerful melodramatic london concert hall england office london philharmonic orchestra world war ii blitz of london survival music perseverance quest sacrifice
A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
Comedy
UK
1939
91 Minutes
George Formby Joss Ambler Dirk Bogarde Davy Burnaby George Carney Syd Crossley Meriel Forbes Hal Gordon George "Gabby" Hayes James Hayter Patricia Kirkwood
George (George Formby) is an old stable hand and is the only one who can control a jittery racehorse.
Adventure
1940
91 Minutes
Lt. Cmdr. Ashton
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.
Comedy
UK
1939
87 Minutes
Lord Redhill
George Formby Googie Withers Gus McNaughton Garry Marsh Joss Ambler Ronald Shiner C. Denier Warren Martita Hunt
counterfeiter airy amusing charming confident frenetic england investigation crime windfall pursuit underdog 1930s
George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
Comedy
USA
1942
85 Minutes
Anne Crawford Donald Stewart Renee Houston Oliver Wakefield Charles Heslop William Hartnell Felix Aylmer Charles Victor Joss Ambler Paul Sheridan
The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
War
1943
88 Minutes
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.
Biography
UK
1941
79 Minutes
Clifford Evans Deborah Kerr Dennis Arundell Aubrey Mallalieu D.J. Williams O.B. Clarence James Harcourt Charles Carson Henry Oscar Max Adrian John Stuart
king charles ii admiral quaker wife military officer explorer somber spirited powerful london royal court pennsylvania countryside england united states william penn religious persecution colonization father/son relationship religious conversion
William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."