Waterfront Women

1950

English

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.

Mister V

1941

English

7.2

♡ 14

77%

Leslie Howard Director

Michael Brennan as Camp Guard with Lantern

Roland Pertwee as Embassy Official - Sir George Smith

Arthur Hambling as Jordan

Michael Rennie as Prison Camp Officer

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

Death at a Broadcast

1934

English

5.8

♡ 5

Reginald Denham Director

Jack Hawkins as Herbert Evans

Austin Trevor as Leopold Dryden

Arthur Hambling as Man On BBC Reception Desk

Donald Wolfit as Sydney Parsons

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

Henry V

1944

English

7.0

♡ 4

Action

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.

Johnny Frenchman

1945

English

6.3

♡ 2

Charles Frend Director

Ralph Michael as Bob Tremayne

Alfie Bass as Corporal

Tom Walls as Nat Pomeroy

Arthur Hambling as Steve Matthews

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.

It Always Rains on Sunday

1947

English

7.1

♡ 3

90%

Robert Hamer Director

Alfie Bass as Dicey

Googie Withers as Rose Sandigate

Nigel Stock as Ted Edwards

Arthur Hambling as Yardmaster

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934

English

7.3

♡ 5

90%

husband wife relationship

secret identity

Harold Young Director

Arthur Hambling as Captain of the Guard

Melville Cooper as Romney

Joan Gardner as Suzanne de Tournay

Bramwell Fletcher as The Priest

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.

Bombsight Stolen

1941

English

6.7

♡ 6

60%

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Wilding as Alan Trently

Alastair Sim as Charles Dimble

George Cole as Ronald

Arthur Hambling as Scotland Yard Inspector

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.

Derby Day

1952

English

6.4

♡ 1

Herbert Wilcox Director

Arthur Hambling as Col. Tremaine

Aileen Lewis as Derby Race-Goer

Sam Kydd as Harry Bunn

Nigel Stock as Jim Molloy

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.

Things to Come

1936

English

6.6

♡ 14

91%

William Cameron Menzies Director

Arthur Hambling as Man Toasting the Boss

Margaretta Scott as Roxana / Rowena

Abraham Sofaer as The Jew

Patrick Barr as World Transport Official

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.