Direction: Harold French
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Harold French. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Trio
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French
Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris
Plot Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor...
6.3
52 votes
6.3
52 votes
Major Barbara
1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom
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...
6.0
85 votes
6.0
85 votes
Adam and Evelyne
1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Harold French
Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Edwin Styles
Plot Gambler Stewart Granger becomes guardian to homeless woman Jean Simmons and tells her he's a stockbroker and she's the daughter of one of his friends. While Granger lavishes Simmons with...
5.7
223 votes
5.7
223 votes
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Claude Rains · Marius Goring · Märta Torén · Ferdy Mayne
Plot Meak head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with Parisian girl...
5.5
52 votes
5.5
52 votes
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue
1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Harold French
Cast Richard Todd · Glynis Johns · James Robertson Justice · Michael Gough
Plot After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to...
5.4
43 votes
5.4
43 votes
The Man Who Loved Redheads
1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Moira Shearer · John Justin · Roland Culver · Gladys Cooper
Plot The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some 'chums' when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. As he grows older he retains his image of this beautiful...
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Secret Mission
1942 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast James Mason · Hugh Williams · Carla Lehmann · Roland Culver
Plot In this World War II suspense thriller, three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather infor- mation about the German forces for a planned...
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Forbidden Cargo
1954 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Jack Warner · Nigel Patrick · Elizabeth Sellars · Terence Morgan
Plot Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
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Jeannie
1941 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Barbara Mullen · Wilfrid Lawson · Gus McNaughton · Phyllis Stanley
Plot Jeannie McLean (Mullen) is a Scottish girl who finds that she has received an inheritance. The film follows her adventures of finding her family castle and being romanced by different...
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My Brother Jonathan
1948 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Michel Dennison · Dulcie Gray · Ronald Howard · Stephen Murray
Plot Dr. Jonathan Dakers, in flashback, tells his son Tony, Word War II veteran, about his life dating from the 1900s. As a medical student, he meets Edeie at a cricket...
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Mr. Emmanuel
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Felix Aylmer · Greta Gynt · Walter Rilla · Peter Mullins
Plot An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
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Quartet
1948 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin · Arthur Crabtree · Harold French · Ralph Smart
Cast William Somerset Maugham · Basil Radford · Naunton Wayne · Ian Fleming
Plot 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...
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Dangerous Masquerade
1939 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Robert Newton · Betty Lynne · Peter Gawthorne · John Warwick
Plot Penniless and debt ridden writer Aylmer Franklyn (Robert Newton) happens upon a dead man lying under the branch of a tree, apparently killed during a violent storm. Swapping clothes and...
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Talk About Jacqueline
1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Paul L. Stein · Harold French
Cast Hugh Williams · Carla Lehmann · Joyce Howard · Roland Culver
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The Day Will Dawn
1942 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Hugh Williams · Griffith Jones · Deborah Kerr · Ralph Richardson
Plot A war correspondent fights to stop the German invasion of Norway.
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Quiet Weekend
1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Derek Farr · Frank Cellier · Marjorie Fielding · George Tjorpe
Plot The ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage : the son and his socialite flirt hated by his...
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The Hour of 13
1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Peter Lawford · Dawn Addams · Roland Culver · Derek Bond
Plot Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. He has taking ways, and the Calgurie Emerald is one of the things he...
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Our Film (S)
1942 · Movie · 14 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Brefni O'Rorke · John Slater · Bert Batchelor · Walter Hudd
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Encore
1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French · Pat Jackson · Anthony Pelissier
Cast Nigel Patrick · Roland Culver · Kay Walsh · Noel Purcell
Plot The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, "The Ant and the Grasshopper" concerns the trials and tribulations a ne'er-do-well brother, Tom Ramsey, puts...
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English Without Tears
1944 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Harold French
Cast Penelope Dudley-Ward · Michael Wilding · Lilli Palmer · Claude Dauphin
Plot While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family...
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