Cast: Sybil Thorndike

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike

Plot Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Jane Wyman · Michael Wilding · Richard Todd

Plot A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · Derek Bond · Stanley Holloway · Alfred Drayton

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast James Cagney · Don Murray · Dana Wynter · Glynis Johns

Plot In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded...

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Marilyn Monroe · Sybil Thorndike · Richard Wattis

Plot When Grandduke Charles, the prince-regent of Carpatha, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British king...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger · Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike

Plot A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue....

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Dana Andrews · Maureen O'Hara · Sybil Thorndike · Fay Compton

Plot A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Plot 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...

Direction Richard Fleischer · Elmo Williams

Cast Stephen Boyd · Juliette Greco · David Wayne · Gregory Ratoff

Direction Ned Sherrin

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Gordon Jackson · Arthur Lowe · Vivian Pickles

Plot The life of Charles Dickens.

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Sybil Thorndike · Ada Bodart · Gordon Craig · Marie Ault

Plot A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Cedric Hardwicke · John Mills · Felix Aylmer · Leslie Perrins

Plot A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted) to her brief reign as monarch of England and finally to her beheading. The film...

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Michael Wilding · Gladys Young · Felix Aylmer

Plot Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to...

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Sybil Thorndike · Kathleen Harrison · Estelle Winwood · Stanley Holloway

Plot Three elderly ladies tire of living in an old people's home and when they heard that they are about to be separated, they make a bid for freedom. They escape...

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Sybil Thorndike · Chips Rafferty · Keith Calvert · Bruce Archer

Direction Stuart Burge

Cast Michael Redgrave · Max Adrian · Lewis Casson · Rosemary Harris

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Patrice Munsel · Robert Morley · John McCallum · John Justin

Plot The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of...