Cast: Donald Calthrop
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Calthrop. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 29
Shooting Stars
1928 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith · A.V. Bramble
Cast Annette Benson · Brian Aherne · Donald Calthrop · Wally Patch
Synopsis The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a...
7.6
44 votes
7.6
44 votes
Blackmail
1929 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Anny Ondra · John Longden · Sara Allgood · Charles Paton
Synopsis Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defence when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal who tries to blackmail her....
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
Murder!
1930 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Herbert Marshall · Nora Baring · Phyllis Konstam · Edward Chapman
Synopsis A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
Industrial Britain (S)
1931 · Documentary · 21 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert J. Flaherty
Cast Donald Calthrop
Synopsis Industrial Britain represents a watershed in the development of the British documentary movement, the moment when artistic achievement was first blended meaningfully with social intent.
6.3
36 votes
6.3
36 votes
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · John Loder · Frank Cellier
Synopsis Dr. Laurience, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his...
6.1
64 votes
6.1
64 votes
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French
Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton
Synopsis Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy Hiller returns, this time as one of Shaw’s most memorable...
6.0
85 votes
6.0
85 votes
The Clairvoyant
1934 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Claude Rains · Fay Wray · Mary Clare · Jane Baxter
Synopsis Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them ...until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally...
5.9
70 votes
5.9
70 votes
Number Seventeen
1932 · Movie · 62 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Leon M. Lion · Anne Grey · John Stuart · Donald Calthrop
Synopsis This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient who accidentally discovers the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves.
5.7
1K votes
5.7
1K votes
Rome Express
1932 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Conrad Veidt · Muriel Aked · Joan Barry · Donald Calthrop
5.7
22 votes
5.7
22 votes
Scrooge
1935 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Edwards
Cast Seymour Hicks · Donald Calthrop · Robert Cochran · Mary Glynne
Synopsis Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. But in the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of another color. Straightforward adaptation of Dickens.
5.6
26 votes
5.6
26 votes
The Phantom Light
1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Binnie Hale · Gordon Harker · Donald Calthrop · Milton Rosmer
Synopsis A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
5.5
24 votes
5.5
24 votes
Elstree Calling
1930 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Andre Charlot · Jack Hulbert · Paul Murray · Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Teddy Brown · Helen Burnell · Donald Calthrop · Bobbie Comber
4.2
58 votes
4.2
58 votes
To Hell with Hitler
1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Phyllis Calvert · Garry Marsh · Romney Brent
Synopsis Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukulele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in...
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Masks and Faces
1917 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Fred Paul
Cast Johnston Forbes-Robertson · Irene Vanbrugh · Henry S. Irving · Gerald du Maurier
Synopsis An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
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Red Ensign
1934 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Leslie Banks · Carol Goodner · Frank Vosper · Alfred Drayton
Synopsis David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get...
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F. P. 1 Doesn't Answer
1933 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Karl Hartl
Cast Conrad Veidt · Jill Esmond · Leslie Fenton · George Merritt
Synopsis A gigantic floating platform is built in the mid-Atlantic for use as a oceanic airport. However, its destruction seems imminent at the hands of foreign saboteurs.
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The Love Storm
1931 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ewald André Dupont
Cast Fay Compton · Frank Harvey · Ian Hunter · Edmund Willard
Synopsis William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when...
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The Man Behind the Mask
1936 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell
Cast Hugh Williams · Jane Baxter · Ronald Ward · Maurice Schwartz
Synopsis A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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Broken Blossoms
1936 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Brahm
Cast Arthur Margetson · C.V. France · Basil Radford · Edith Sharpe
Synopsis The spiritual and peace-loving Chen resides in London's Limehouse district, where he teaches and promotes peaceful Buddhist concepts. He is attracted to the beleaguered Lucy Burrows, whose prizefighter father beats her persistently. When Chen rescues Lucy from one of her...
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Dreaming Lips
1937 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul Czinner
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Raymond Massey · Romney Brent · Joyce Bland
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