Cast: Felix Aylmer

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Richard Burton · Peter O'Toole · John Gielgud · Donald Wolfit

Synopsis King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and...

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast David Niven · Burt Lancaster · Rita Hayworth · Deborah Kerr

Synopsis "Separate Tables" touchingly and humorously examines the lives of the lonely-hearted guests at a hotel on England's south coast. Sibyl, a demure spinster on holiday with her mother, is attracted to a man who claims to be a war hero,...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Jean Simmons · Basil Sydney · Eileen Herlie

Synopsis William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet,...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Synopsis Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior. Though she grew up Roman,...

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Gwen Watford · Patrick Allen · Felix Aylmer · Niall MacGinnis

Synopsis Jean Carter, nine-year-old daughter of the town's newly-appointed school principal, Peter Carter and his wife Sally, is playing in the woods with her 11-year-old friend Lucille, when Jean discovers she has lost her purse containing her "candy" money. Lucille tells...

Direction King Vidor

Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison

Synopsis 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 attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Synopsis In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his...

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Flora Robson · James McKechnie

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Yul Brynner · Helen Hayes · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her he comes to believe she is...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh...

Direction Henry King

Cast Tyrone Power · Wanda Hendrix · Everett Sloane · Orson Welles

Synopsis Andrea Zoppo, a well-educated commoner, masquerades as a member of the noble Orsini family and wins favor with the ambitious and Machiavellian Cesare Borgia, who, with his equally corrupt sister Lucrezia, hopes to become the most powerful force in Renaissance...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Deborah Kerr · Ian Hunter · James Donald

Synopsis Londoners Arnold and Evelyn Boult had high hopes for the life of their son, Edward. His relatively short life ended up being one of privilege but irresponsibility. His life ended at age 23 when he was killed in battle in...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford

Synopsis When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Ava Gardner · Mel Ferrer · Anne Crawford

Synopsis King Arthur establishes the greatest reign England has ever seen, and along for the ride are his indispensable Knights of the Round Table, particularly Sir Lancelot. Then, Arthur finds himself a bride, the beautiful Guenivere. While she loves Arthur, she...

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Deborah Kerr · Hayley Mills · Edith Evans · John Mills

Synopsis A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a...

Direction André De Toth

Cast Jack Hawkins · Gia Scala · Erik Schumann · Alexander Knox

Synopsis World War II spy thriller supposedly based on true story. British secret agent (Jack Hawkins) successfully infiltrates Nazi military, achieves rank of general during WWII. He gains full confidence of entire Nazi high command, including Fuhrer Adolf Hitler himself, save...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · John Lodge · Hugh Williams · René Ray

Synopsis Britons take off for a summer holiday filled with romantic intrigue and dreams of better lives.

Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French

Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris

Synopsis Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor write. With the help of his sympathetic wife, he becomes...

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jean Seberg · Richard Widmark · John Gielgud · Richard Todd

Synopsis Graham Greene wrote the screenplay based on George Bernard Shaw's drama, and Jean Seberg made her screen debut as Joan of Arc. With a superb performance by John Gielgud as the Earl of Warwick.

Direction William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Anthony Steel · Roger Livesey · Beatrice Campbell

Synopsis Buckle on your swashes for this swashbuckling adventure with a highlander who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie who, after various escapades, becomes a pirate.