The Sound and the Fury

1959

English

6.2

♡ 8

60%

Martin Ritt Director

Margaret Leighton as Caddy Compson

Stuart Whitman as Charlie Busch

Joanne Woodward as Quentin Compson / Narrator

William Challee as Roustabout

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

The Winslow Boy

1948

English

7.6

♡ 5

74%

Action

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow

Cyril Ritchard as Cyril Ritchard

Basil Radford as Desmond Curry

Jack Watling as Dickie Winslow

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

The Holly and the Ivy

1952

English

7.2

♡ 5

72%

George More O'Ferrall Director

Celia Johnson as Jenny Gregory

Roland Culver as Lord B.

Margaret Leighton as Margaret Gregory

Denholm Elliott as Michael Gregory

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

Marriage a la Mode

1955

English

6.3

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Sidney Gilliat Director

Sam Kydd as Adelphi Barman

Michael Ripper as Left Luggage Attendant

Margaret Leighton as The Law - Counsel for the Defence

Kay Kendall as The 'Wives' - Monica

Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

The Teckman Mystery

1954

English

6.2

♡ 1

Wendy Toye Director

Margaret Leighton as Helen Teckman

Roland Culver as Insp. Harris

Duncan Lamont as Insp. Hilton

Bruce Beeby as Wallace

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

Court Martial

1954

English

6.9

♡ 3

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Timothy Bateson as 1st Soldier in Naafi

Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Valerie Carrington

Geoffrey Keen as President

Vivienne Martin as Pte. Smith

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.

Great Expectations

1974

English

6.2

♡ 5

51%

Drama

remake

Joseph Hardy Director

James Faulkner as Bently Drummle

Margaret Leighton as Miss Havisham

Harry Fielder as Policeman Pulling Magwitch from River

Maria Charles as Sara Pocket

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Frankenstein: The True Story

1973

English

7.1

♡ 7

67%

based on novel or book

Jack Smight Director

Jane Seymour as Agatha / Prima

Margaret Leighton as Francoise DuVal

Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Blair

Aileen Lewis as Opera Patron

Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori.

Murder on Monday

1952

English

6.7

♡ 5

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Ralph Richardson Director

Ralph Richardson as David Preston

Jack Hawkins as Dr. Sparling

Margaret Leighton as Janet Preston

Archie Duncan as Station Sergeant

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

The Go-Between

1971

English

7.1

♡ 8

100%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Joseph Losey Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Charles

Margaret Leighton as Mrs. Maudsley

Jim Broadbent as Spectator at Cricket Match

Alan Bates as Ted Burgess

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.

Galileo

1975

English

6.5

♡ 3

Joseph Losey Director

Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti

Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady

Vernon Dobtcheff as First Secretary

Aileen Lewis as Woman

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.