Biography: Basil Radford |
Actor Basil Radford was on the British stage from 1922 in twittish, tweedy comedy roles. His first film appearance was in 1929's Barnum Was Right. International fame came Radford's way when he and Naunton Wayne originated the roles of cricket-obsessed... more
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Tags: Comedy
Length: 82min
Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill (Radford) to purchase a valuable race horse. He manages to attain financial backing from 300 fellow racing enthusiasts--and then...
Tags: Drama
Length: 89min
Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management relations. When a group of angry workers protest their wage and working conditions at a plough factory, they are permitted to...
Cast: Robert Donat Anthony Asquith Cedric Hardwicke Stanley Holloway Kathleen Harrison Anatole de Grunwald
Tags: Family Drama Melodrama Courtroom Drama Drama
Length: 112min
Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is...
Cast: Joan Greenwood
Tags: Comedy of Manners Crime Comedy Comedy
Length: 83min
Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the...
Cast: Gordon Jackson Sally Ann Howes
Tags: Comedy
Length: 78min
Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass who has the power to stop all machinery around her for a period of 15 minutes. It must needs be that Sally falls in love with a...
Cast: Dirk Bogarde Ian Fleming Naunton Wayne Felix Aylmer
Tags: Drama
Length: 120min
The first of three well-received "omnibus" films hosted by Somerset Maugham, Quartet features four of Maugham's most celebrated stories, each introduced by the author himself. In "The Facts of Life," a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling)...
Cast: Patricia Roc Eric Portman Basil Radford
Tags: Romance War Drama War Drama
Length: 103min
Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions...
Cast: Michael Redgrave Basil Dearden
Tags: War Drama POW Drama Drama War
Length: 86min
The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed the identity of a deceased British officer to avoid being executed by the Nazis. When captured and placed in the camp, the...
Length: 91min
Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He returns to his job in a London now facing nightly German bombing raids, and finds himself saddled with Carol Bennett (Valerie...
Cast: Carol Reed
Tags: Detective Film Mystery
Length: 78min
Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later interviews. Even so, the film is a worthwhile effort, with an intricate and sometimes amusing script by Sydney Gilliat. Young...
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