Cast: Frederick Leister
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frederick Leister. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Goodbye Mr. Chips
1939 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sam Wood
Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn
Plot An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.
7.2
1K votes
7.2
1K votes
Footsteps in the Fog
1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur Lubin
Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie
Plot To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband...
7.0
783 votes
7.0
783 votes
The Captive Heart
1946 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns
Plot In the summer of 1940, Captain Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave), a Czech soldier, escapes from Dachau concentration camp and assumes the identity of a dead British officer, Captain Geoffrey Mitchell....
6.5
41 votes
6.5
41 votes
So Well Remembered
1947 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast John Mills · Martha Scott · Patricia Roc · Trevor Howard
Plot On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper...
6.5
37 votes
6.5
37 votes
The End of the Affair
1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Edward Dmytryk
Cast Deborah Kerr · Van Johnson · John Mills · Michael Goodliffe
Plot In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love...
6.3
256 votes
6.3
256 votes
The Gentle Sex
1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard · Maurice Elvey
Cast Joan Gates · Jean Gillie · Joan Greenwood · Joyce Howard
Plot This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
5.9
23 votes
5.9
23 votes
Dangerous Exile
1958 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Louis Jourdan · Belinda Lee · Keith Michell · Richard O'Sullivan
Plot It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
5.1
43 votes
5.1
43 votes
For Them That Trespass
1949 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast Stephen Murray · Richard Todd · Patricia Plunkett · Rosalyn Boulter
Plot "Cristy" Drew, an aspiring young writer, trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with "Frankie" Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds "Frankie"...
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Sons of the Sea
1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power
Plot After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach...
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Paper Orchid
1949 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Ward Baker
Cast Hugh Williams · Hy Hazell · Sid James · Garry Marsh
Plot A man found dead inside a gossip columnist's apartment leads to competition between two rival newspapers.
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Down River
1931 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Godfrey
Cast Charles Laughton · Jane Baxter · Harold Huth · Kenneth Kove
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O.H.M.S.
1937 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast Wallace Ford · John Mills · Anna Lee · Grace Bradley
Plot Two soldier friends vie for the affections of the sergeant-major's daughter, against a background of military pomp and adventure.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
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...
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On the Night of the Fire
1939 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Ralph Richardson · Diana Wynyard · Romney Brent · Mary Clare
Plot A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
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The 20 Questions Murder Mystery
1950 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Robert Beatty · Rona Anderson · Clifford Evans · Stewart MacPherson
Plot BBC Radio's 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass.
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We'll Meet Again
1943 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Philip Brandon
Cast Vera Lynn · Geraldo · Ronald Ward · Patricia Roc
Plot A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant to sing, she finally...
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Before I Wake
1955 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Albert S. Rogell
Cast Mona Freeman · Jean Kent · Maxwell Reed · Hugh Miller
Plot A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1945 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein
Cast Patricia Medina · Jimmy Hanley · Marie Lohr · Frederick Leister
Plot Joan's (Patricia Medina) mother wants her to marry her pompous boss although she loves a soldier (Jimmy Handley).
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The Hundred Pound Window
1944 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Anne Crawford · David Farrar · Frederick Leister · Mary Clare
Plot An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and...
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The Rossiter Case
1951 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Francis Searle
Cast Helen Shingler · Clement McCallin · Sheila Burrell · Frederick Leister
Plot A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns...
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