Cast: Leslie Banks

Direction Laurence Olivier

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

Plot 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...

Direction Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack

Cast Joel McCrea · Fay Wray · Leslie Banks · Robert Armstrong

Plot After a shipwreck, a big game hunter washes up on a remote island only to discover that its owner, also a hunter, has tired of tracking animals and has developed...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Leslie Banks · C.V. France · Valerie Taylor · Marie Lohr

Plot During the Second World War a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts...

Direction David Lean

Cast Ann Todd · Norman Wooland · Ivan Desny · Leslie Banks

Plot Based on the true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family, she stood trial in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. Her...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Farrar · Kathleen Byron · Jack Hawkins · Leslie Banks

Plot Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Leslie Banks · Peter Lorre · Edna Best · Frank Vosper

Plot Hitchcocks first and arguably superior production of the same story he retold in 1956 with James Stewart and Doris Day, and critics continue to argue the films merits versus its...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Charles Laughton · Maureen O'Hara · Horace Hodges · Hay Petrie

Plot A young woman on the British coast stumbles onto a ring of bloodthirsty scavengers.

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Flora Robson · Laurence Olivier · Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks

Plot In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. British sea raiders regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World with the support of Queen...

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks · Laurence Olivier · Francis L. Sullivan

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast Leslie Banks · Paul Robeson · Nina Mae McKinney · Martin Walker

Plot British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

Direction Maurice Elvey

Cast Richard Dix · Leslie Banks · Madge Evans · Helen Vinson

Plot Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. His biggest supporter is Varlia Lloyd, daughter...

Direction Arthur B. Woods · Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Montgomery · Constance Cummings · Leslie Banks · Seymour Hicks

Plot Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so...

Direction Charles Frend

Cast Will Hay · Bernard Miles · John Stuart · David Evans

Plot Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Leslie Banks · Anne Grey · Carol Goodner · Frank Cellier

Plot Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Leslie Banks · Carol Goodner · Frank Vosper · Alfred Drayton

Plot 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...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

Cast Lilian Harvey · Gene Raymond · Leslie Banks · Georgia Caine

Plot Tony Malatini, a puppeteer, at Paris' Theatre des Marionettes notices that his audience consists of only 7 people. He visits his successful competitor on the corner to see why people...

Direction Robert Montgomery

Cast Robert Montgomery · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer · Andrew Cruickshank

Plot Adam Hayward (Robert Montgomery), a successful New York City defense lawyer, receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble...

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Leslie Banks · Jeanne De Casalis · Carla Lehmann · Alastair Sim

Plot A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in....

Direction Montgomery Tully

Cast Peter Graves · Joyce Howard · Leslie Banks · Margaretta Scott

Plot The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father...

Direction Sergei Nolbandov

Cast John Clements · Leslie Banks · Jane Baxter · Ann Todd

Plot Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle...