List of the best Leo Genn movies: The Wooden Horse(1950), The Velvet Touch(1948), Circus of Fear(1966), Too Hot to Handle(1960), Lady Chatterley's Lover(1956), Night of the Blood Monster(1969), The Snake Pit(1948), Escape by Night(1960), The Great Manhunt(1974), Beyond Mombasa(1957), Affair in Monte Carlo(1953), Ten Little Indians(1966) ... ...
War
UK
1950
101 Minutes
Leo Genn Anthony Steel David Tomlinson David Greene Peter Burton Michael Goodliffe Anthony Dawson
prisoner of war captain british soldier british officer nazi commandant lieutenant intense tense suspenseful gripping engaging gutsy nazi germany concentration camp survival prisoners of war world war ii nazism tunneling gymnastics
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1948
97 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Leo Genn Claire Trevor Sydney Greenstreet Leon Ames Frank McHugh Walter Kingsford Dan Tobin Lex Barker Nydia Westman Theresa Harris
broadway star producer ex-girlfriend rival architect police detective intense suspenseful melodramatic broadway theater new york city blackmail murder investigation broadway show business crimes of passion transformation rivalry mystery
A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it when the police investigator targets a rival actress.
Horror
1966
65 Minutes
ringmaster lion tamer dwarf killer detective thief eerie suspenseful thrilling big top police station london tower bridge countryside tent circus investigation murder heist deception
A Scotland Yard inspector (Leo Genn) suspects a lion tamer (Christopher Lee), ringmaster (Heinz Drache) and other circus people of murder.
Drama
1960
105 Minutes
Jayne Mansfield Leo Genn Karl Boehm Danik Patisson Christopher Lee Kai Fischer
Romance
1956
100 Minutes
Danielle Darrieux Leo Genn Erno Crisa Janine Crispin Gérard Séty Berthe Tissen
D.H. Lawrence's chaste aristocrat (Danielle Darrieux) goes to her invalid husband's (Leo Genn) gamekeeper (Erno Crisa).
Horror
1969
84 Minutes
Christopher Lee Leo Genn Maria Schell Maria Rohm Margaret Lee Howard Vernon Diana Lorys Jose Maria Prada Pietro Martellanza José María Blanco John Thompson
A sadistic witch hunter carves a path of terror through the once-peaceful countryside in 17th-century England.
Drama
USA
1948
108 Minutes
Dr. Mark Kik
mental patient husband psychiatrist disturbing emotional gripping mental institution united states household mental illness marriage romance childhood psychoanalysis fall love transformation 1940s
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Drama, War
Italy|France
1960
138 Minutes
Maggiore Michael Pemberton
Giovanna Ralli Sergei Bondarchuk Leo Genn Peter Baldwin Renato Salvatori Hannes Messemer
prisoner of war communist nun partisan soldier american patriotic suspenseful emotional gritty rome attic farm house countryside prison camp loyalty resistance cultural differences unlikely allies
Three allied prisoners, a Russian, an American and an Englishman, attempt to escape with the help of a young couple from Rome.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
95 Minutes
Chief of M.I.5
Lino Ventura Léa Massari Leo Genn Suzanne Flon Robert Hardy Bernard Dhéran Pierre-Michel Le Conte
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Adventure
UK|USA
1957
90 Minutes
Ralph Hoyt
Cornel Wilde Donna Reed Leo Genn Ron Randell Christopher Lee Dan Jackson Eddie Calvert Bartholomew Sketch Clive Morton MacDonald Parke
An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.
Romance
UK
1953
90 Minutes
Robert Sterling
Merle Oberon Richard Todd Leo Genn Peter Illing Stephen Murray Peter Reynolds Joan Dowling June Clyde
A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1966
92 Minutes
General Mandrake
Hugh O'Brian Shirley Eaton Fabian Leo Genn Stanley Holloway Marianne Hoppe Wilfrid Hyde-White Daliah Lavi Dennis Price Mario Adorf
secretary american man judge singer actress servant intricate creepy spirited suspenseful chateau mountain alps austria murder unknown enemy trapped unlikely allies race against time guilt
Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Drama
1950
104 Minutes
Steve Brunswick
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon John Hodiak Leo Genn Cathy O'Donnell Reginald Owen Anthony Bushell Richard Gale Peter Finch
mother army officer architect husband daughter doctor melodramatic inspiring tender england postwar britain mother/child relationship family marriage terminal illness love sacrifice discovery 1940s
A dying woman (Greer Garson) hides her fate from her husband (Walter Pidgeon) and family in postwar London.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1946
93 Minutes
Mr. Eden
Alastair Sim Trevor Howard Sally Gray Rosamund John Leo Genn Judy Campbell Megs Jenkins Moore Marriott Henry Edwards Ronald Adam George Woodbridge
doctor nun nurse detective patient chilling engaging suspenseful hospital england murder betrayal war mystery 1940s
After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
Drama
USA
1947
173 Minutes
Adam Brant
Rosalind Russell Michael Redgrave Raymond Massey Katina Paxinou Leo Genn Kirk Douglas Nancy Coleman Henry Hull Sara Allgood Thurston Hall Walter Baldwin
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia set in New England, after the American Civil War.
Drama
UK
1945
137 Minutes
The Constable of France
Laurence Olivier Robert Newton Renee Asherson Leslie Banks Esmond Knight Leo Genn Felix Aylmer Ralph Truman Harcourt Williams Ivy St. Helier Ernest Thesiger
soldier king leader military officer queen creative intense england france war marriage military royalty empowerment fall rise rivalry 16th century
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Drama, History
USA
1963
150 Minutes
Gen. Jung-Lu
Charlton Heston Ava Gardner David Niven Flora Robson John Ireland Harry Andrews Leo Genn Robert Helpmann Icchizo Itami Kurt Kaszner Philippe Leroy
military officer empress diplomat baroness soldier emotional melodramatic gripping compound beijing battle of peking boxer rebellion hostages war love escape rescue love 1900s
During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.
Drama
UK
1937
85 Minutes
Prosecuting Counsel
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Valerie Hobson Alan Hale Jack Melford Anthony Ireland Barbara Everest Edward Rigby Esme Percy Basil Radford Leo Genn Ian Fleming
A London cat burglar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) falls for the girlfriend (Valerie Hobson) of a stockbroker (Alan Hale) who used to be his partner.
Romance
UK
1938
96 Minutes
Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Marie Lohr David Tree Scott Sunderland Jean Cadell Everley Gregg Leueen MacGrath Esme Percy
flower girl professor socialite father charming endearing witty london party household class distinctions love culture clash transformation love 1910s
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Adventure
1940
91 Minutes
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.
Drama, History
UK
1946
135 Minutes
Vivien Leigh Claude Rains Stewart Granger Flora Robson Francis L. Sullivan Basil Sydney Cecil Parker Raymond Lovell Anthony Eustrel Ernest Thesiger Anthony Harvey
julius caesar cleopatra ptolemy military officer engaging calm alexandria, egypt royal palace political intrigue family imperialism growing up transformation ancient egypt
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.