Cast: Esmond Knight

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Synopsis Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight), she spends most of her days writing poetry in her...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Anton Walbrook · Moira Shearer · Marius Goring · Leonid Massine

Synopsis Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Deborah Kerr · Sabu · David Farrar · Flora Robson

Synopsis Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy "palace", former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Moira Shearer · Anna Massey · Maxine Audley

Synopsis As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as...

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck

Synopsis When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires if he is tired, burnt out, ready to come in...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

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

Synopsis 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 she has problems she turns to the book of spells...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Sean Connery · Audrey Hepburn · Robert Shaw · Richard Harris

Synopsis Robin and Marian (1976) tells the poignant tale of an aging Robin Hood, returning to England after years of absence. Reunited with his beloved Marian, now a nun, he finds a world changed by time and politics. King Richard's death...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet

Synopsis Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler

Synopsis Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Direction Laurence Olivier

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

Synopsis 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 in 1911, and spends his one evening off at the...

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kenneth More · Dana Wynter · Carl Möhner · Laurence Naismith

Synopsis Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Michael Elphick · Esmond Knight · Me Me Lai · Jerold Wells

Synopsis A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger · Rouben Mamoulian

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

Synopsis 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. (2) Adding scenes explaining things, often by putting labels or...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Patrick McGoohan · Louis Jourdan · Jenny Agutter

Synopsis The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.

Direction Charles Frank

Cast Jean Simmons · Katina Paxinou · Derrick De Marney · Derek Bond

Synopsis Caroline Ruthyn is the teen-aged niece of the her uncle Silas, a sickly and at one time unbalanced man who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The fact that Silas is broke and greedy and young Caroline...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Jessie Matthews · Edmund Gwenn · Fay Compton · Esmond Knight

Synopsis Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write...

Direction Ralph Ince

Cast Esmond Knight · Lilli Palmer · Cecil Parker · George Merritt

Synopsis Frustrated by a seemingly infallible gang of jewel thieves, Scotland Yard arranges to have an undercover agent become part of the gang. Once inside, the agent starts to become attached to a Russian woman who is part of the gang...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Dolly Haas · Cyril Maude · Esmond Knight · Irene Vanbrugh

Synopsis The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he has never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke hates women, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Martin Landau · Nora Swinburne · Walter Fitzgerald · Torin Thatcher

Direction Vernon Sewell

Cast Michael Rennie · Patricia Medina · Milly Vitale · David Knight