Jamaica Inn
1939
star 6.1
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica...
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Acting
Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks, CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English theatre and cinema actor, director and producer, now best remembered playing gruff, menacing characters in black and white movies of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Filmography
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The Most Dangerous Game
1932
star 6.9
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he fi...
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1934
star 6.5
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to...
Madeleine
1950
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Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they kn...
Henry V
1944
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In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of F...
Fire Over England
1937
star 6.2
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defe...
Went the Day Well?
1942
star 7.2
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to dis...
The Small Back Room
1949
star 6.8
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fig...
The Door with Seven Locks
1940
star 6.3
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the to...
The Tunnel
1935
star 5.4
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
Farewell Again
1937
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Give...
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939
star 7.2
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player...
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audie...
Your Witness
1950
star 6.2
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war bud...
The True Glory
1945
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A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by ne...
21 Days
1940
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After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime...
Cottage to Let
1941
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Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with...
Neutral Port
1940
star 6.8
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then s...
Ships with Wings
1941
star 6.0
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Gr...
Sons of the Sea
1939
star 7.0
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he him...
The Big Blockade
1942
star 6.7
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the...
Wings of the Morning
1937
star 6.2
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
Dead Man's Shoes
1940
star 7.0
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past sh...
The Night of the Party
1934
star 5.8
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publi...
Cyrano de Bergerac
1938
star 8.0
Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic...
Sanders of the River
1935
star 5.8
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-ru...
Busman's Honeymoon
1940
star 6.0
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a...
Experience
1921
star 8.0
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his sear...
The Fire Raisers
1934
star 5.6
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arson...
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947
star 6.7
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. A...
Red Ensign
1934
star 6.0
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial tro...
The Three Maxims
1936
star 9.0
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After s...
I Am Suzanne!
1933
star 6.6
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer h...
Debt of Honour
1936
star 9.0
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers,...