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6.4

♡ 6

Michael Anderson Director

Duncan Lamont as 3rd Engineer On Ship

Michael Brennan as Engineer

Robert Newton as Peter McCabe

Arthur Hambling as Police Sergeant

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

Angel Street

1940

7.3

♡ 15

100%

Thorold Dickinson Director

Kathleen Harrison as Bit Role

Jimmy Hanley as Cobb

Cathleen Cordell as Nancy

Robert Newton as Ullswater

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

Fire Over England

1937

6.5

♡ 2

50%

William K. Howard Director

Robert Newton as Don Pedro

Norma Varden as Elena's Governess

James Mason as Hillary Vane

Evelyn Ankers as Lady-in-Waiting

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

Henry V

1944

7.0

♡ 4

based on a true story

based on play or musical

Laurence Olivier Director

Robert Newton as Ancient Pistol

Arthur Hambling as Bates - Soldier in the English Army

Robert Helpmann as Bishop of Ely

Niall MacGinnis as Macmorris - Captain in the English Army

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Major Barbara

1941

6.8

♡ 4

93%

58%

based on play or musical

David Lean Director

Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins

Robert Newton as Bill Walker

Cathleen Cordell as Mog Habbijam

Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Price

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

The Green Cockatoo

1937

5.9

♡ 2

William Cameron Menzies Director

Robert Newton as Dave Connor

Sybil Grove as Hotel Majestic Proprietress

Bruce Seton as Madison - Tall Henchman

Googie Withers as (uncredited)

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

Jamaica Inn

1939

6.3

♡ 11

54%

36%

Adventure

smuggling (contraband)

undercover agent

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Robert Newton as Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang

Maureen O'Hara as Mary - Joss Merlyn's Niece

Basil Radford as Sir Humphrey's Friend

Mervyn Johns as Thomas - Sir Humphrey's Gang

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

This Happy Breed

1944

7.3

♡ 6

100%

David Lean Director

Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell

Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons

Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons

Kay Walsh as Queenie

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival, and even another World War.

The Hidden Room

1949

7.3

♡ 9

89%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Michael Balfour as American Sailor

Sam Kydd as Club Steward

Robert Newton as Dr. Clive Riordan

Stanley Baker as Policeman

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Night Boat to Dublin

1946

6.2

♡ 3

Lawrence Huntington Director

Robert Newton as Capt. David Grant

Marius Goring as Frederick Jannings

Herbert Lom as Keitel

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Taxi Driver

British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

Poison Pen

1939

6.6

♡ 6

Drama

Paul L. Stein Director

Ann Todd as Ann Rider

Roddy McDowall as Choirboy

Robert Newton as Sam Hurrin

Peter Murray-Hill as (uncredited)

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Treasure Island

1950

6.9

♡ 21

100%

67%

Adventure

Byron Haskin Director

Sam Kydd as Cady

Gordon Mulholland as Durgin

Geoffrey Keen as Israel Hands

Robert Newton as Long John Silver

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Odd Man Out

1947

ira (irish republican army)

7.6

♡ 10

100%

noir

Thriller

Carol Reed Director

Kathleen Ryan as Kathleen Sullivan

Robert Newton as Lukey

Geoffrey Keen as Soldier

Arthur Hambling as Tom

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Oliver Twist

1948

7.8

♡ 19

100%

84%