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

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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

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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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