List of the best Manning Whiley movies: Code of Scotland Yard(1947), Pimpernel Smith(1941), The Ghost of St. Michael's(1941), Pastor Hall(1940), Saloon Bar(1940), Freedom Radio(1941), Contraband(1940) ... ...
Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Corder Morris
Oscar Homolka Derek Farr Muriel Pavlow Kenneth Griffith Manning Whiley Kathleen Harrison Diana Dors
antique dealer blackmailer violinist frenchman refugee murderer bleak chilling melodramatic intense powerful uneasy antique shop london blackmail murder father/daughter relationship antiques crime protection
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
Mystery & Thriller
1941
122 Minutes
Bertie Gregson
Leslie Howard Mary Morris Francis L. Sullivan Hugh McDermott Raymond Huntley Manning Whiley Peter Gawthorne Allan Jeayes Dennis Arundell Joan Kemp-Welch Philip Friend
father nazi archaeologist political prisoner student spy lighthearted thrilling suspenseful amusing germany concentration camp archaeological dig persecution nazis holocaust undercover operations father/daughter relationship unlikely allies escape
A British archaeology professor (Leslie Howard) smuggles refugees past a Gestapo chief (Francis Sullivan) near the Swiss border.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1941
82 Minutes
Stock
Will Hay Claude Hulbert Charles Hawtrey Raymond Huntley Felix Aylmer Elliott Mason John Laurie Hay Petrie Roddy Hughes Manning Whiley Derek Blomfield
science teacher headmaster schoolboy undercover agent sergeant ghost creepy amusing witty madcap thrilling engaging scotland school ancient curse school nazis murder survival suspicion
A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the ... See full summary »
UK
1940
95 Minutes
Wilfrid Lawson Nova Pilbeam Seymour Hicks Marius Goring Brian Worth Percy Walsh Lina Barrie Eliot Makeham Peter Cotes Edmund Willard Bernard Miles
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1940
80 Minutes
Gordon Harker Elizabeth Allan Mervyn Johns Joyce Barbour Anna Konstam Cyril Raymond Judy Campbell Al Millen Norman Pierce Alec Clunes Mavis Villiers
landlord customer local barmaid bookie bleak brooding disturbing engaging gritty rousing pub england murder suspicion hanging justice execution mystery underdog
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie ... See full summary »
War
1941
83 Minutes
Clive Brook Diana Wynyard Raymond Huntley Derek Farr Joyce Howard Howard Marion-Crawford John Penrose Morland Graham Ronald Squire Gibb McLaughlin Muriel George
nazi doctor radio host wife engineer resistance fighter tense inspiring suspenseful intense gripping engaging nazi germany berlin radio station resistance subterfuge radio propaganda world war ii
A German doctor (Clive Brook), disillusioned with Nazi propaganda and philosophies, creates a secret radio-feed condemning the movement.
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.