Shooting Stars

1928

English

7.2

♡ 6

Anthony Asquith Director

Jack Rawl as Hero

Brian Aherne as Julian Gordon

Annette Benson as Mae Feather

Chili Bouchier as Winnie - Bathing Beauty

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

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.

Johnny in the Clouds

1945

English

7.3

♡ 4

77%

Anthony Asquith Director

Douglass Montgomery as Johnny Hollis

Joyce Carey as Miss Winterton

Trevor Howard as Sq / Leader Carter

Basil Radford as Tiny Williams

Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.

Five Angles on Murder

1950

English

6.8

♡ 5

73%

Anthony Asquith Director

Jean Kent as Agnes / Madame Astra / Parrot

Duncan Lamont as Barney

Richard Pearson as Detective

Ian Fleming as Doctor

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

The Millionairess

1960

English

5.4

♡ 7

20%

39%

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Dennis Price as Doctor Adrian Bland

Sophia Loren as Epifania

Roy Kinnear as Man Carrying Crate

Alastair Sim as Sagamore

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.

Underground

1928

English

7.3

♡ 3

man woman relationship

Romance

romantic rivalry

subway

Anthony Asquith Director

Cyril McLaglen as Bert, Power station worker

Brian Aherne as Bill

Norah Baring as Kate, Seamstress

Elissa Landi as Nell

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...

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.

The Browning Version

1951

English

8.0

♡ 17

89%

95%

Action

Drama

Anthony Asquith Director

Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Wilfrid Hyde-White as Dr. Frobisher

Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter

Jean Kent as Millie Crocker-Harris

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

Orders to Kill

1958

English

7.1

♡ 2

75%

Anthony Asquith Director

Sam Kydd as Flight Sgt. Flint

Fritz Wendhausen as German Officer

Lillian Gish as Mrs. Summers

James Robertson Justice as Naval Commander

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.

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.

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952

English

7.4

♡ 6

88%

83%

based on play or musical

Anthony Asquith Director

Dorothy Tutin as Cecily Cardew

Michael Redgrave as Ernest Worthing

Edith Evans as Lady Augusta Bracknell

Richard Wattis as Seton

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

We Dive at Dawn

1943

English

6.7

♡ 7

53%

Anthony Asquith Director

Walter Gotell as Luftwaffe Captain

Jack Watling as Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.

Norman Williams as Periscope Operator - 'Canada'

Niall MacGinnis as Torpedo Gunner's Mate - C / P.O. Mike Corrigan

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

1964

English

6.4

♡ 12

57%

husband wife relationship

Anthony Asquith Director

Ingrid Bergman as Gerda Millett

George Roderick as Italian waiter

Roland Culver as Norwood

Alain Delon as Stefano

One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.

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Shooting Stars

The Winslow Boy

Johnny in the Clouds

Five Angles on Murder

The Millionairess

Underground

Bombsight Stolen

The Browning Version

Orders to Kill

Court Martial

The Importance of Being Earnest

We Dive at Dawn

The Yellow Rolls-Royce