Cast: Basil Radford

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas

Synopsis In The Lady Vanishes (1938), a young Englishwoman named Iris befriends an elderly Miss Froy on a train in pre-WWII Europe. When Miss Froy mysteriously disappears, Iris is shocked to find that none of the passengers recall seeing her. Determined...

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer

Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver

Synopsis Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural, Craig is filled with a growing dread.

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Robert Donat · Cedric Hardwicke · Basil Radford · Margaret Leighton

Synopsis Autumn 1912, Arthur Winslow has retired from the bank. His wife Grace greets him at home. He scolds his 19-year-old son Dickie, an Oxford student, and complains that his 12-year-old brother Ronnie, accepted for the Royal Naval College at Osborne,...

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Basil Radford · Catherine Lacey · Bruce Seton · Joan Greenwood

Synopsis A ship loaded with whisky is wrecked on a Scottish island. The locals attempt to conceal the haul from the Customs and Excise man.

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · John Mills · Rosamund John · Douglass Montgomery

Synopsis Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh...

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Redgrave · Rachel Kempson · Frederick Leister · Mervyn Johns

Synopsis 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. When he is caught, he joins thousands of British prisoners...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Derrick De Marney · Nova Pilbeam · Percy Marmont · Edward Rigby

Synopsis Man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford

Synopsis When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Barry K. Barnes · Emlyn Williams · Roger Livesey

Synopsis Anne Graham (played by Margaret Lockwood) is a caretaker nurse who is taking care of an elderly woman. The old lady sneaks some pills out of Graham's stash and ends up dead with an overdose. Graham is put on trial...

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast George Formby · Googie Withers · Gus McNaughton · Garry Marsh

Synopsis George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Jimmy O'Dea · Betty Driver · Sonnie Hale · Patrick Barr

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Gary Cooper · Beryl Mercer · Daisy Belmore · Nora Cecil

Synopsis A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer) without a son believes that he is in fact her...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Will Hay · Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · Googie Withers

Synopsis A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only...

Direction Roy Rich · Alfred Roome

Cast Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne · Susan Shaw · Maurice Denham

Synopsis "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become...

Direction Henry Cornelius

Cast Basil Radford · Jimmy Hanley · Janette Scott · A.E. Matthews

Synopsis A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper.

Direction John Brahm

Cast Arthur Margetson · C.V. France · Basil Radford · Edith Sharpe

Synopsis The spiritual and peace-loving Chen resides in London's Limehouse district, where he teaches and promotes peaceful Buddhist concepts. He is attracted to the beleaguered Lucy Burrows, whose prizefighter father beats her persistently. When Chen rescues Lucy from one of her...

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Mervyn Johns · Basil Radford · Marie Lohr · A.E. Matthews

Direction Ken Annakin · Arthur Crabtree · Harold French · Ralph Smart

Cast William Somerset Maugham · Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne · Ian Fleming

Synopsis Four of Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author himself. In the first story, The Facts of Life, a young man with great potential on the tennis courts goes to Monte Carlo...

Direction Francis Searle

Cast Hugh Williams · Joan Greenwood · Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne

Synopsis A young scientist had a divorce from his wife and isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife...

Direction Sidney Gilliat · Frank Launder

Cast Patricia Roc · Gordon Jackson · Anne Crawford · Basil Radford

Synopsis When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamor job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls for...