List of the best Robert Hamer movies: Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949), Dead of Night(1945), School for Scoundrels(1960), It Always Rains on Sunday(1947), The Scapegoat(1959), The Loves of Joanna Godden(1947), The Detective(1954), To Paris, With Love(1955), Pink String and Sealing Wax(1945), The Spider and the Fly(1949) ... ...
Comedy, Crime, Drama
UK
1949
104 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Dennis Price Valerie Hobson Joan Greenwood Miles Malleson Hugh Griffith Jeremy Spenser Arthur Lowe
murderer wealthy man girlfriend admiral minister lady cheeky madcap england castle prison death family ambition class distinctions revenge fall 1900s
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Horror
UK
1945
104 Minutes
Director
Charles Crichton Mervyn Johns Basil Dearden Michael Redgrave Roland Culver Mary Merrall Frederick Valk Renee Gadd Antony Baird Judy Kelly
architect host psychiatrist race car driver golfer ventriloquist creepy eerie frightening england farm household accident psychoanalysis superhuman abilities dreams ghosts paranoia discovery mystery
Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales.
Comedy
UK
1960
94 Minutes
Director
Ian Carmichael Terry-Thomas Alastair Sim Janette Scott Dennis Price Peter Jones Edward Chapman John Le Mesurier Irene Handl Kynaston Reeves Hattie Jacques
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Crime, Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Director
Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Edward Chapman Jimmy Hanley John Carol John Slater Susan Shaw Sydney Tafler Alfie Bass Betty Ann Davies
criminal escaped convict woman neighbor police officer old flame dark melodramatic engaging london prison bomb shelter backyard crime hiding relationships family prison break friendship escape
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1959
92 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Bette Davis Nicole Maurey Irene Worth Pamela Brown Annabel Bartlett Geoffrey Keen Noel Howlett Peter Bull Leslie French Alan Webb
teacher nobleman mistress mother wife daughter suspenseful fascinating striking france hotel chateau foundry village cottage deception impersonation frame-up murder drug addiction
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
Drama
UK
1947
89 Minutes
Director
Googie Withers Charles Frend Jean Kent John McCallum Derek Bond Henry Mollison Chips Rafferty Sonia Holm Josephine Stuart Edward Rigby Frederick Piper
farmer young woman suitor love interest heir confident endearing engaging heartwarming inspiring powerful farm rural community united kingdom independence farming breaking rules love work life
On Romney Marsh at the turn of the century, a woman farmer has three suitors.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Joan Greenwood Peter Finch Cecil Parker Bernard Lee Sidney James Ernest Thesiger
priest detective thief hilarious thrilling lighthearted playful london rome church museum crime investigation religion theft search pursuit quest rivalry mystery
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Romance
UK
1955
78 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Odile Versois Vernon Gray Elina Labourdette Jacques François Austin Trevor Jacques B. Brunius Claude Romain Maureen Davis Mollie Hartley Milburn
father son young woman woman hilarious frenetic heartwarming family home paris street hotel elevator tree father/son relationship love triangle courtship vacation life lessons may-december romance growing up
A middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other.
Crime, Drama
1945
75 Minutes
Director
wife bar owner son pharmacist couple family suspenseful tense intricate engaging tavern united kingdom pharmacy brighton, england marriage relationships adultery poison revenge victorian era
An innkeeper's wife (Googie Withers) poisons him, then tries to frame someone for it in Victorian England.
Drama
1949
95 Minutes
Director
Eric Portman Guy Rolfe Nadia Gray Maurice Denham James Hayter Arthur Lowe
police chief bank robber accomplice government official beautiful woman crafty intricate patriotic paris bank prison police station bank heist world war i crime police work investigation rivalry transformation pursuit
A police chief (Eric Portman) recruits his safecracker nemesis (Guy Rolfe) for a government job in World War I Paris.