Soundtrack: William Alwyn

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


The Crimson Pirate

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Burt Lancaster · Eva Bartok · Nick Cravat · Torin Thatcher

Plot Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A...

7.5

11K votes

7.5

11K votes

Life for Ruth

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Michael Craig · Patrick McGoohan · Janet Munro · Paul Rogers

Plot When John Harris's daughter is badly injured in an boating accident, the hospital tells him that she will need an urgent blood transfusion. Due to his religious beliefs Harris refuses...

7.2

103 votes

7.2

103 votes

The Fallen Idol

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Ralph Richardson · Michèle Morgan · Sonia Dresdel · Jack Hawkins

Plot An eight-year-old ambassador’s son, left in the care of manservant Baines and his suspicious wife, witnesses what he believes to be a murder.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Mandy

1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Phyllis Calvert · Jack Hawkins · Terence Morgan · Mandy Miller

Plot A poignant drama about a young deaf girl and the strains her condition puts on her family. Mandy was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life....

7.1

320 votes

7.1

320 votes

Odd Man Out

1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

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

Plot 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...

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7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Winslow Boy

1948 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

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

Plot 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...

7.0

99 votes

7.0

99 votes

A Night to Remember

1958 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Kenneth More · Jill Dixon · David McCallum · Laurence Naismith

Plot The crew and passengers of the Titanic fight to survive when the legendary ship strikes an iceberg.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Madeleine

1950 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Ann Todd · Norman Wooland · Ivan Desny · Leslie Banks

Plot Based on the true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family, she stood trial in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier. Her...

6.8

413 votes

6.8

413 votes

So Evil My Love

1948 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Allen

Cast Ray Milland · Ann Todd · Geraldine Fitzgerald · Leo G. Carroll

Plot Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her...

6.8

77 votes

6.8

77 votes

State Secret (The Great Manhunt)

1950 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Jack Hawkins · Glynis Johns · Walter Rilla

Plot Visiting in England, famed American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

The October Man

1947 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast John Mills · Joan Greenwood · Edward Chapman · Kay Walsh

Plot Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

6.7

37 votes

6.7

37 votes

The Naked Edge

1961 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Gary Cooper · Deborah Kerr · Peter Cushing · Eric Portman

Plot George Radcliffe's testimony sends Donald Heath to prison for murder and the theft of over 60,000 pounds. Soon after, Radcliffe invests a large sum of money in an ultimately profitable...

6.7

957 votes

6.7

957 votes

The Magic Box

1951 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Plot Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that...

6.7

42 votes

6.7

42 votes

Man with a Million

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gregory Peck · Ronald Squire · Joyce Grenfell · A.E. Matthews

Plot An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds....

6.6

971 votes

6.6

971 votes

Green for Danger

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Gilliat

Cast Sally Gray · Trevor Howard · Alastair Sim · Rosamund John

Plot Set in August 1944 during the V-1 Doodlebug offensive on London, a murder takes place in Heron's Park Emergency Hospital, a rural British hospital somewhere in the South-east of England....

6.6

155 votes

6.6

155 votes

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast James Cagney · Don Murray · Dana Wynter · Glynis Johns

Plot In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded...

6.6

117 votes

6.6

117 votes

Burn, Witch, Burn

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Peter Wyngarde · Janet Blair · Margaret Johnston · Anthony Nicholls

Plot A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms...

6.5

370 votes

6.5

370 votes

Escape

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland

Plot Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant...

6.5

104 votes

6.5

104 votes

The Smallest Show on Earth

1957 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Virginia McKenna · Bill Travers · Peter Sellers · Margaret Rutherford

Plot Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill's...

6.5

25 votes

6.5

25 votes

The Long Memory

1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast John Mills · John McCallum · Elizabeth Sellars · Eva Bergh

Plot Davidson (John Mills), visits the boat of Captain Driver to ask permission to marry his daughter Fay. Aboard, he finds himself involved in a fight over the criminal activities of...

6.4

62 votes

6.4

62 votes