Soundtrack: Charles Williams

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Charles Williams. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Girl in the News

1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

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...

6.4

31 votes

6.4

31 votes

Bank Holiday

1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · John Lodge · Hugh Williams · René Ray

Synopsis Britons take off for a summer holiday filled with romantic intrigue and dreams of better lives.

6.3

75 votes

6.3

75 votes

6.1

51 votes

The Phantom Light

1935 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Binnie Hale · Gordon Harker · Donald Calthrop · Milton Rosmer

Synopsis A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

The Night Has Eyes

1942 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast James Mason · Wilfrid Lawson · Mary Clare · Joyce Howard

Synopsis Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shellshocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris...

5.4

53 votes

5.4

53 votes

Busman's Honeymoon

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur B. Woods · Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Montgomery · Constance Cummings · Leslie Banks · Seymour Hicks

Synopsis Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so that they both promise not to get involved with any...

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Warn That Man

1943 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast Gordon Harker · Raymond Lovell · Finlay Currie · Philip Friend

Synopsis During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently visits to 'get away from it all', abduct...

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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday

1939 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Gordon Harker · Alastair Sim · Linden Travers · Wally Patch

Synopsis During a holiday by the British seaside, Inspector Hornleigh (Harker) and Sergeant Bingham (Sim) grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.[

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While I Live

1947 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Harlow

Cast Tom Walls · Clifford Evans · Carol Raye · Patricia Burke

Synopsis 25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her composer sister and concludes she has returned, reincarnated, in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help.

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Convict 99

1938 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

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...

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Owd Bob

1938 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Will Fyffe · John Loder · Margaret Lockwood · Graham Moffatt

Synopsis Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power...

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Kipps

1941 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Philip Frost · Michael Redgrave · Diana Wynyard · Diana Calderwood

Synopsis Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really...

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Jew Süss

1934 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lothar Mendes

Cast Conrad Veidt · Benita Hume · Cedric Hardwicke · Frank Vosper

Synopsis A Jew seeks political power in order that he may use it to benefit the status of Jewry in an anti-Semitic order of society. Unlike the 1940 version, the 1934 version is faithful to the Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 novel and...

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The Frozen Limits

1939 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Jimmy Nervo · Teddy Knox · Bud Flanagan · Chesney Allen

Synopsis The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.

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Tower of Terror

1941 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lawrence Huntington

Cast Wilfrid Lawson · Michael Rennie · Movita · Morland Graham

Synopsis A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.

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A Girl Must Live

1939 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Renee Houston · Lilli Palmer · George Robey

Synopsis A girl runs away from her Swiss finishing-school to go on the stage under a false name just as a rich young rubber-planter returns to England to inherit a title... with her fellow lodgers and chorus-girls both determined to get...

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Thursday's Child

1943 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Rodney Ackland

Cast Sally Ann Howes · Wilfrid Lawson · Kathleen O'Regan · Stewart Granger

Synopsis Family tensions arise when a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.

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Forbidden Territory

1934 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Gregory Ratoff · Ronald Squire · Binnie Barnes · Tamara Desni

Synopsis An Englishman and his son travel to the Soviet Union to rescue a family member being held in prison.

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Oh, Mr. Porter!

1937 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Will Hay · Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · Sebastian Smith

Synopsis With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang...

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Flesh & Blood

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Richard Todd · Glynis Johns · Joan Greenwood · André Morell

Synopsis Three generations of a family suffer from the effects of heredity..

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