Cast: Joss Ambler
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joss Ambler. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 26
The Citadel
1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison
Plot Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his...
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464 votes
7.1
464 votes
The Years Between
1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie
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24 votes
6.8
24 votes
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger
Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet
Plot Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on...
6.8
364 votes
6.8
364 votes
Contraband
1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler
Plot Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
6.7
35 votes
6.7
35 votes
Trouble Brewing
1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Googie Withers · Gus McNaughton · Garry Marsh
Plot George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
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Headline
1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Harlow
Cast David Farrar · Anne Crawford · John Stuart · Antoinette Cellier
Plot A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his boss's wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Sons of the Sea
1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power
Plot After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach...
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Miss Tulip Stays the Night
1955 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Arliss
Cast Diana Dors · Patrick Holt · Jack Hulbert · Cicely Courtneidge
Plot A crime writer and his wife go for a break to a country cottage. They receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In...
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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden · Will Hay
Cast Will Hay · John Mills · Basil Sydney · Henry Hewitt
Plot Will Hay plays a Professor teaching at a correspondence school who discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America....
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Something Money Can't Buy
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pat Jackson
Cast Patricia Roc · Anthony Steel · Moira Lister · A.E. Matthews
Plot A British Army Officer returns to civilian life after WWII. He finds that his wife is running a successful employment agency so he must become a "house husband". He doesn't...
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Mine Own Executioner
1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast Burgess Meredith · Dulcie Gray · Michael Shepley · Christine Norden
Plot Pretty Molly Lucian enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam, who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison...
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The Peterville Diamond
1943 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Anne Crawford · Donald Stewart · Renee Houston · Oliver Wakefield
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Come on George!
1939 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast George Formby · Pat Kirkwood · Joss Ambler · Meriel Forbes
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Battle for Music
1943 · Documentary · 74 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Donald Taylor
Cast Joss Ambler · Clifford Buckton · Charles Carson · Mavis Clair
Plot A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
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Soho Incident
1956 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Vernon Sewell
Cast Faith Domergue · Lee Patterson · Rona Anderson · Martin Benson
Plot A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into...
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Who Goes There!
1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Kimmins
Cast Nigel Patrick · Valerie Hobson · Peggy Cummins · Anthony Bushell
Plot A private in the Guards is forced to leave his girl friend in the (not-for-long) empty house of a high-ranking civil servant. The son discovers her and promptly falls in...
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Rhythm Serenade
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Wellesley
Cast Vera Lynn · Peter Murray-Hill · Julien Mitchell · Charles Victor
Plot Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
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Much Too Shy
1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Kathleen Harrison · Hilda Bayley · Eileen Bennett
Plot A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.
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Penn of Pennsylvania
1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lance Comfort
Cast Clifford Evans · Deborah Kerr · Dennis Arundell · Aubrey Mallalieu
Plot William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony.
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The Silver Fleet
1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Vernon Sewell · Gordon Wellesley
Cast Ralph Richardson · Googie Withers · Esmond Knight · Beresford Egan
Plot Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a...
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