Screenplay: R.C. Sherriff

Direction James Whale

Cast Claude Rains · Gloria Stuart · William Harrigan · Henry Travers

Synopsis With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles,...

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Robert Donat · Greer Garson · John Mills · Terry Kilburn

Synopsis An old classics teacher looks back over his long career, remembering pupils and colleagues, and above all the idyllic courtship and marriage that transformed his life.

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick

Synopsis Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds needed to continue its activities. During the hold-up, things go...

Direction Zoltan Korda

Cast John Clements · Ralph Richardson · C. Aubrey Smith · June Duprez

Synopsis Action-packed story of a young British army officer who fights to preserve his honour after being branded a coward during the war in Egypt in 1898.

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Vivien Leigh · Laurence Olivier · Alan Mowbray · Sara Allgood

Synopsis Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn't cut the grade with London society but she gets along well with the Queen...

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Richard Todd · Michael Redgrave · Ursula Jeans · Basil Sydney

Synopsis The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Tyrone Power · Joan Fontaine · Thomas Mitchell · Nigel Bruce

Synopsis Aristocratic Prudence Cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the WAFs. After enlisting, a fellow WAF sets her up on a blind date with handsome, but moody Clive Briggs. Prudence learns Clive is a deserter, but still loves him and...

Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French

Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris

Synopsis 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 write. With the help of his sympathetic wife, he becomes...

Direction Henry Koster

Cast James Stewart · Marlene Dietrich · Glynis Johns · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the wreckage of a new passenger plane designed by his company. His theory is that the planes are susceptible to metal fatigue after a specific amount...

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott

Synopsis A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream in which another of those present, a senior Royal Air...

Direction Zoltan Korda · Terence Young

Cast Laurence Harvey · Anthony Steel · James Robertson Justice · Mary Ure

Synopsis Korda directs The Four Feathers again, not so much a remake as a re-mount: with the same director, same script and much of the same footage. Charisma-free Anthony Steel is the man given the white feather treatment for cowardice, Laurence...

Direction Saul Dibb

Cast Sam Claflin · Asa Butterfield · Paul Bettany · Toby Jones

Synopsis RC Sherriff's Journey's End is the seminal British play about WW1. Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, it is the story of a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously awaiting their...

Direction Lambert Hillyer

Cast Otto Kruger · Gloria Holden · Marguerite Churchill · Edward Van Sloan

Synopsis Hungarian countess Marya Zaleska seeks the aid of a noted psychiatrist, in hopes of freeing herself of a mysterious evil influence.

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Christopher Plummer · Simon Ward · Peter Firth

Synopsis A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very good.

Direction Edmund Goulding · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Lloyd · Victor Saville

Cast Kent Smith · June Lockhart · Ray Milland · Claude Rains

Synopsis In this episodic, World War II film, an American (Kent Smith) travels to London to sell the stately old house that belongs to his family. While he's visiting the home, bombs fall all around as the current resident recounts the...

Direction James Whale

Cast Diana Wynyard · Colin Clive · Frank Lawton · Stella Patrick Campbell

Synopsis A young lady leaves her brutal husband and meets another man aboard a ship.

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 Ralph Richardson

Cast Ralph Richardson · Margaret Leighton · Jack Hawkins · Campbell Singer

Synopsis David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered....

Direction James Whale

Cast Colin Clive · Ian Maclaren · David Manners · Billy Bevan

Synopsis On the eve of a battle in 1918, a new officer, Second Lieutenant Raleigh (David Manners), joins Captain Stanhope's (Colin Clive) company in the British trench lines in France. While the two men knew each other at school, Stanhope loves...

Direction James Whale

Cast John 'Dusty' King · Richard Cromwell · Slim Summerville · Andy Devine

Synopsis After World War I, a group of former German soldiers try to adjust to civilian life.