Cast: Leslie Banks

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 Irving Pichel · Ernest B. Schoedsack

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

Synopsis 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 a taste for a new prey...humans. Co-Director Schoedsack performed the...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

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

Synopsis 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 begin to grow about their true identity and purpose. When...

Direction David Lean

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

Synopsis 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 trial was much publicized in the newspapers of the day...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

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

Synopsis 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 is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

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

Synopsis 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 successor. An English couple on holiday in Switzerland find themselves...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Elizabeth I. After a plot to depose her is discovered,...

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 of one of the backers, and she uses her influence...

Direction Arthur B. Woods · Richard Thorpe

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

Synopsis 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 that they both promise not to get involved with any...

Direction Charles Frend

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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

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...

Direction Rowland V. Lee

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

Synopsis 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 are drawn to it. After seeing Suzanne, the competitors popular...

Direction Robert Montgomery

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

Synopsis 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 with the law in England. Taking the advice of his...

Direction Anthony Asquith

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

Synopsis 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. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that...

Direction Montgomery Tully

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

Synopsis 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 George III.

Direction Sergei Nolbandov

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

Synopsis 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 in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself.