List of the best Victor Saville movies: First a Girl(1935), The Good Companions(1933), I Was a Spy(1933), Friday the Thirteenth(1933), Evergreen(1934), Storm in a Teacup(1937), The Long Wait(1954), South Riding(1938), Tonight and Every Night(1945), If Winter Comes(1948), The Earl of Chicago(1940), Dark Journey(1937) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
UK
1935
93 Minutes
Director
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Anna Lee Griffith Jones Alfred Drayton Constance Godridge Eddie Gray Martita Hunt Donald Stewart
aspiring actor aspiring actress talent scout young man princess trainer hilarious charming theater monte carlo, monaco audition performance cross-dressing success deception illness adventure transformation 1930s
Elizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn't Elizabeth replace him in it?
Musical, Romance, Comedy
UK
1933
95 Minutes
Director
Jessie Matthews Edmund Gwenn John Gielgud Mary Glynne Percy Parsons A.W. Baskcomb Florence Gregson Frank Pettingell
Musical taken from J.B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Drama
UK
1933
89 Minutes
Director
Madeleine Carroll Herbert Marshall Conrad Veidt Gerald du Maurier Edmund Gwenn Donald Calthrop Nigel Bruce
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1933
89 Minutes
Director
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Edmund Gwenn Gordon Harker Muriel Aked Mary Jerrold Hartley Power Alfred Drayton Percy Parsons Robertson Hare Martita Hunt
art collector young woman young man bus driver elderly woman clerk fascinating engaging london bus street store house apartment storm accident theft family ex-convicts death
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road.... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
UK
1934
90 Minutes
Director
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Betty Balfour Barry MacKay Ivor Maclaren Hartley Power Patrick Ludlow Betty Shale
singer daughter ex-boyfriend publicist understudy amusing lighthearted london stage south africa mistaken identity deception illegitimate child song and dance romance fame love discovery 1930s
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, has a guilty secret: She has a baby daughter, born out of wedlock. Harriet leaves her public and flees to South ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1937
87 Minutes
Director
Vivien Leigh Ian Dalrymple Rex Harrison Cecil Parker Sara Allgood Ursula Jeans Gus McNaughton Arthur Wontner Edgar K. Bruce Robert Hale Eliot Makeham
journalist politician daughter woman dog cheery charming scotland small town court journalism unlikely romance reputation scandal trial pets rivalry love 1930s
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Crime, Drama
USA
1954
93 Minutes
Director
An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty...
Drama
UK
1938
84 Minutes
Director
Ralph Richardson Edna Best Edmund Gwenn Ann Todd John Clements Marie Lohr Milton Rosmer Glynis Johns
"Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1945
92 Minutes
Director
singer pilot photographer reverend spirited touching tender london theater world war ii performance romance blitz of london song and dance love sacrifice 1940s
A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also reveal the backstage love ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1948
97 Minutes
Director
Walter Pidgeon Deborah Kerr Angela Lansbury Binnie Barnes Janet Leigh Dame May Whitty Rene Ray Virginia Kelley Reginald Owen John Abbott Rhys Williams
writer wife widow pregnant woman townsperson ex-lover melodramatic powerful touching small town england publishing house front lines house small-town life world war ii scandal rumors suicide false accusations
It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green, and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon), a writer of school text books, has married Mabel (Dame ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
85 Minutes
Director
Robert Montgomery Edward Arnold Reginald Owen Edmund Gwenn E.E. Clive Ronald Sinclair Norma Varden Halliwell Hobbes
bootlegger enemy english gentleman offbeat brooding chicago england mansion court inheritance betrayal rags to riches murder class conflict alcohol revenge rise fall 1930s
Silky has always moved booze. In prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was an ... See full summary »
Adventure
UK
1937
82 Minutes
Director
Conrad Veidt Vivien Leigh Anthony Bushell Joan Gardner Ursula Jeans Eliot Makeham Margery Pickard Austin Trevor Sam Livesey Cecil Parker Edmund Willard
double agent soldier doctor thrilling passionate sweden france submarine love war espionage secret rescue adventure forbidden love 1910s
During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
Drama, History
UK
1934
88 Minutes
Director
George Arliss Gladys Cooper Emlyn Williams Ellaline Terriss A.E. Matthews Alan Aynesworth Lesley Wareing Felix Aylmer Norma Varden
duke king inspiring fascinating england france belgium battlefield battle ambition courage heroism arthur wellesley, duke of wellington war quest rivalry rise 19th century
Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo, and served as prime minister.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
80 Minutes
Director
Walter Pidgeon Margaret Leighton Robert Beatty David Tomlinson Peggy Evans Charles Victor Bernard Lee
With a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1949
87 Minutes
Director
Robert Taylor Elizabeth Taylor Robert Flemyng Harold Warrender Honor Blackman Marjorie Fielding Thora Hird Marie Ney Wilfrid Hyde-White Karel Stepanek Helen Haye
major young woman american englishman aunt spy thrilling tense gripping london apartment ballroom lake espionage marriage international conspiracy cold war husband/wife relationship love mystery
In Cold War London, young American Melinda Greyton (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) marries British Army Major Michael Curragh (Robert Taylor), who is a Communist spy working for the Soviets.
Romance
UK
1953
90 Minutes
Director
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.
Comedy
UK
1931
90 Minutes
Director
Leslie Henson Gordon Harker Hugh Wakefield Dorothy Boyd Renee Clama Jack Melford
Two gambling youths visit a prissy justice of the peace who lives in the country and is opposed to betting.
Drama
1954
144 Minutes
Director
Virginia Mayo Paul Newman Jack Palance Pier Angeli Alexander Scourby Joseph Wiseman E.G. Marshall Walter Hampden Jacques Aubuchon Herbert Rudley Albert Van Dekker
sculptor slave wife magician beautiful woman apostle melodramatic emotional rome jerusalem art slavery daunting task love triangle magic deception rise quest underdog 1st century
After the Last Supper, Christians fight Romans over Christ's cup, for which a Greek sculptor (Paul Newman) makes a holder.
Musical, Comedy
1936
83 Minutes
Director
Jessie Matthews Robert Young Sonnie Hale Ernest Milton Rob Wilton Sara Allgood
gossip columnist chorus girl social climber society matron lady lighthearted witty london party restaurant newsroom deception impersonation fame high society romance transformation love 1930s
A gossip columnist (Jessie Matthews) poses as her rival's (Robert Young) latest creation, a supposed tiger hunter from India.