Cast: Donald Calthrop

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Donald Calthrop. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


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...

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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

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

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

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