Cast: Laurence Hanray

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Laurence Hanray. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Man Who Could Work Miracles

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Roland Young · Ralph Richardson · Edward Chapman · Ernest Thesiger

Plot As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is granted miraculous powers. His new powers are...

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Smash and Grab

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Jack Buchanan · Elsie Randolph · Arthur Margetson · Anthony Holles

Plot Super-rich London toffs amuse themselves playing private detective to solve a series of smash and grab jewellery thefts.

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This Week of Grace

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

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The Faithful Heart

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Herbert Marshall · Edna Best · Mignon O'Doherty · Laurence Hanray

Plot Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall’s life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his...

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Hatter’s Castle

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Robert Newton · Deborah Kerr · James Mason · Emlyn Williams

Plot The film is based on the novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin. The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford...

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Someone at the Door

1936 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Brenon

Cast Aileen Marson · Billy Milton · Noah Beery · John Irwin

Plot A penniless brother and sister move back into their childhood home, a rundown country manor. Their plans to launch his journalistic career by faking her murder go awry when they...

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Mine Own Executioner

1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Burgess Meredith · Dulcie Gray · Michael Shepley · Christine Norden

Plot Pretty Molly Lucian enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam, who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison...

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My Learned Friend

1943 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden · Will Hay

Cast Will Hay · Claude Hulbert · Mervyn Johns · Laurence Hanray

Plot An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop...

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The Girl in the Taxi

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction André Berthomieu

Cast Frances Day · Henri Garat · Lawrence Grossmith · Jean Gillie

Plot The head of a Parisian purity league is found out to be anything but when his organizations mistakenly sends an award to the wrong person.

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Lorna Doone

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean

Cast Victoria Hopper · John Loder · Margaret Lockwood · Roy Emerton

Plot High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

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Lonely Road

1936 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James Flood

Cast Clive Brook · Victoria Hopper · Nora Swinburne · Malcolm Keen

Plot Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love, drives to the coast while drunk and interrupts some smugglers.

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Love Story

1944 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Stewart Granger · Patricia Roc · Reginald Purdell

Plot When concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday, she meets Kit...

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Loyalties

1933 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dean · Thorold Dickinson

Cast Basil Rathbone · Heather Thatcher · Miles Mander · Joan Wyndham

Plot While a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting...

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Mimi

1935 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Gertrude Lawrence · Diana Napier · Harold Warrender

Plot The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

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It's Never Too Late to Mend

1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Tod Slaughter · Jack Livesey · Marjorie Taylor · Ian Colin

Plot An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

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The Three Maxims

1936 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wilcox

Cast Anna Neagle · Tullio Carminati · Leslie Banks · Arthur Finn

Plot A love triangle causes major disruption to the harmony of a trapeze act.

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Chu Chin Chow

1934 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

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The Good Companions

1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Victor Saville

Cast Jessie Matthews · Edmund Gwenn · John Gielgud · Mary Glynne

Plot Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

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Brewster's Millions

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Jack Buchanan · Lili Damita · Nancy O'Neil · Sydeny Fairbrother

Plot Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000...

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