Fay Compton
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British actress Fay Compton came from a formidable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton, and her grandfather was 19th-century theatrical luminary Henry Compton. Starting in the Follies staged by first husband H. G. Pelissier,... more
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Cast: James Mason Roy Kellino June Havoc Karl Struss Fay Compton
Length: 87min
In this off-beat, tuneful psychological thriller, an ailing pregnant woman is in the hospital when she inadvertently eavesdrops on a conversation between a pianist and his wife. Later, after losing her baby, the woman's husband convinces her to...
Cast: Alastair Sim Audrey Hepburn Hugh Griffith Mario Zampi Guy Middleton
Tags: Comedy
Length: 93min
Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) was a practical joker all his life, and his sly sense of humor is hardly stilled by his death; when his four closest...
Cast: Sybil Thorndike Maureen O'Hara Malcolm Arnold Jean Negulesco Georges Périnal
Length: 91min
The Anglo-American co-production Britannia Mews was released in the U.S. as The Affairs of Adelaide, then reissued as Forbidden Street, the title it carries today. Set in the Victoria era, the film focuses upon Adelaide (Maureen O'Hara), a young lady...
Cast: Richard Attenborough Alastair Sim Sidney Gilliat Muir Mathieson Wilkie Cooper
Tags: Drama
Length: 112min
Assembled by the reliable team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, London Belongs to Me stars Richard Attenborough as a young, full-of-beans boy looking for fun. Bursting into a staid, wearisome London neighborhood, Attenborough exhorts the others to...
Cast: Dirk Bogarde Michael Gough Marc Allégret Mai Zetterling Robert Flemyng
Tags: Crime Thriller Drama Crime
Length: 85min
Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a novel by Elizabeth Myers, the film casts Zetterling as Mrs. Carol Edwards, whose husband lies in a hospital bed, afflicted with...
Cast: James Mason Robert Newton Carol Reed Cyril Cusack Robert Beatty
Tags: Chase Movie Crime Drama Drama
Length: 111min
Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars James Mason in his star-making role as I.R.A. operative Johnny McQueen. Breaking out of jail, Johnny takes it on the lam, but...
Cast: Ian Dalrymple Dirk Bogarde Michael Gordon Cyril Cusack Kathleen Ryan
Length: 108min
In this costume melodrama, a virginal maid is impregnated by the footman in the household where they work. He offers to marry her, but then suddenly disappears with another woman. The next few years of the woman's life are spent trying to eke out a...
Cast: John Gielgud Diana Wynyard Glynis Johns Kynaston Reeves Gordon McLeod
Length: 94min
Produced by Britain's Teddington Studios on behalf of Hollywood's Warner Bros., the morale-boosting The Prime Minister details the career of 19th century political wizard Benjamin Disraeli, here played by John Gielgud. Filmed in the early months of...
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke Sybil Thorndike Sally Ann Howes Stanley Holloway Alberto Cavalcanti
Tags: Drama
Length: 108min
Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this compact adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is most entertaining on its own terms. Derek Bond plays the title character,...
Cast: James Mason Geraldine Fitzgerald Felix Aylmer Eliot Makeham O.B. Clarence
Length: 77min
It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that Mill on the Floss has nosed out Silas Marner. Set in early 19th century England, the story focuses on the long-standing rivalry between two...
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