British movies I still need list
British movies released between 1930 and 1979 still needed for my collection.
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- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsTubby EdlinAlf GoddardNora SwinburneA soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsClifford MollisonDodo WattsLamont DicksonMisunderstandings abound when a penniless young man lets his flat to an engaged couple.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsNorah BaringAustin TrevorRichard CooperJewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
- DirectorEwald André DupontJean KemmStarsMaxime DesjardinsAlice FieldConstant RémyA heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsJane BaxterRichard CooperSari MaritzaA newlywed couple have a fight, and to get even with each other, each decides to take a lover--without actually going through with "the deed." Complications ensue.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsYvonne ArnaudCathleen NesbittThe Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, bohemian wife, the other, a stuffy Eton and Oxford type whose spouse is a bored but fun-loving onetime tiller girl. They all spend a week-end holiday at the playwright's cottage, where he falls in love with the jolly chorine, and his friend falls for the playwright's highbrow wife.
- DirectorCampbell GullanMichael PowellStarsHermione BaddeleyNora SwinburneAlan NapierThe daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action (in WWI). When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsSari MaritzaWilliam FreshmanMartin LewisA Soho restaurateur's protégée becomes a star.
- DirectorRichard EichbergJean KemmStarsAnna May WongMarcel VibertRobert AncelinA Chinese cabaret singer will do whatever it takes to save her brother when he is sentenced to death for trying to save her from a lecherous Duke.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsPolly WardStuart HallTrilby ClarkA girl helps a composer win fame despite a flirtatious socialite.
- DirectorElinor GlynStarsCarl BrissonElissa LandiHelen HayeAn heiress poses as a marquise's companion to avoid fortune hunters.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsEdna BestOwen NaresMiles ManderA girl reporter is blackmailed for learning that a man is a freed murderer.
- DirectorRichard EichbergStarsJameson ThomasJack RaineMuriel Angelus(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsLeslie FullerMona GoyaWilfred TempleA cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
- DirectorWalter CreightonStarsDouglas BeaumontSam LiveseyMichael HoganA young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsRalph LynnTom WallsWinifred Shotter
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsBetty BalfourMaurice EvansJack RaineAn actor is bribed by a rich man to ruin his son's touring review.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsLillian RichFrank PerfittArthur PuseyA Japanese merchant drives a financier insane by sending him letters from the man he killed.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsRalph LynnTom WallsWinifred ShotterA husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsBasil GillMadeleine CarrollIan FlemingAt the start of the play, Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles. Charles has a horrible reputation for being a gambler and a ladies' man. Sir Peter (Basil Gill) hates Charles and loves his brother Joseph. Rawley (Wallace Bosco) loves Charles and hates his brother Joseph. Sir Oliver (Edgar K. Bruce) is coming to town secretly with the help of Rawley in order to see which of his nephews is worthy of his money. Sir Peter and Lady Teazle (Madeleine Carroll) are having a hard time with their marriage because she is very young and he is older. Lady Sneerwell is plotting with Snake and Joseph to make Sir Peter think that Lady Teazle is having an affair with Charles, so that Maria will not love Charles so Lady Sneerwell can marry Charles and Joseph can marry Maria. The play really starts to go crazy when Sir Oliver arrives. He wants to test his nephews and see what kind of people they are so he has sent a letter from an imaginary distant relative, Mr. Stanley, asking for money. When Sir Oliver arrives he pretends to be a money lender, Mr. Premium. He goes to Charles and offers to buy all the portraits of his ancestors. Charles will sell all the portraits except the one of Sir Oliver. This pleases Sir Oliver and he then sets out to test Joseph. He goes to Joseph and pretends to be Mr. Stanley, asking for money. Joseph says no and shoos him away because he is preoccupied. He tries to woo Maria, Lady Teazle hides behind a screen while Joseph tells Sir Peter that Charles is not having an affair with his wife. Charles comes and Sir Peter hides in a box so that he can hear that Charles is not guilty. Joseph also tells Sir Peter that he has a French lady behind the screen. Charles comes in and says he is not having an affair, but indicates that Joseph is. Charles finds out that Sir Peter is hiding in the box and calls him out. Then Joseph has to go out to deal with another guest. Sir Peter and Charles decide to look at the French girl that Joseph has in his house. They pull down the screen and Joseph comes back just in time to see that Lady Teazle has been revealed to Sir Peter. They all stand in silence until Lady Teazle tells Sir Peter how touched she is by all the things he said while she was hiding. They vow to improve the marriage. The gossips of the town try to decide if it was Joseph or Charles who was having the affair with Lady Teazle. They all come together at Joseph's house and Sir Oliver reveals himself. He tells how he prefers Charles to Joseph and then Lady Sneerwell tries to say that Charles has gotten her pregnant. Fortunately, Snake reveals the truth about all the schemes and clears Charles' name. Charles and Maria are to be married and all is well. #Chetu#
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsJanice AdairC. Aubrey SmithLady Tree
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsMickey BrantfordCyril McLaglenJack RaineThe First World War; a British Army platoon are delighted to be assigned to a quiet area of the trenches..front line, but quiet. Their first indication of a problem is when they meet the platoon they're relieving coming the other way...tensed, nervous, delighted to be away, apologetic to the new platoon, and, unusually, having left behind for them their accumulated goodies... but the trench seems fine, there's little activity from the German trenches...and the dug-out is good and deep. But in the dug-out, in the quiet of the night, they hear it...the muffled sounds of digging, from the German miners working far below...
- DirectorGareth GundreyStarsIvor NovelloBenita HumeJacqueline LoganA young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.
- DirectorArthur BarnesJ.B. WilliamsStarsMatheson LangJill EsmondAnna NeagleA wealthy Chinese banker marries a British singer and takes her back to his estate in the Malayan jungle. But his frequent absences on business make her feel abandoned and she has an affair with a nearby plantation owner. When the banker finds out, he plots his revenge with devastating results...
- DirectorRichard EichbergWalter SummersStarsAnna May WongGeorg H. SchnellJohn LongdenIn Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsRandle AyrtonNeil KenyonKenneth KoveDicky Brown (John Batten) is a young, aspiring footballer who plays for a struggling side, the fictional Manningford Football Club, a team in the midst of a successful cup run. He manages to charm the daughter of the chairman and thus breaks into the side, and ultimately wins the Cup for his team.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsStewart RomeRichard CooperKathleen VaughanA crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsJoseph HislopDorothy SeacombeEve GrayBiography of the ploughboy poet.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsOwen NaresJacqueline LoganJack RaineNautical comedy in which several girls aboard a boat have to be concealed, the farce features typical scenes of characters running in and out of rooms.
- DirectorSewell CollinsStarsDonald CalthropTrilby ClarkGerald RawlinsonA hotel porter mistakes honeymooners for jewel thieves.
- DirectorElinor GlynStarsElissa LandiStewart RomeWalter TennysonA Duke's twin takes his place at his wedding when he is drugged by spies.
- DirectorEdgar WallaceStarsPercy MarmontAnne GreyGordon HarkerA detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
- DirectorGustav UcickyStarsLilian HarveyLaurence OlivierAthole StewartA woman pretends her artist husband has died in a drowning accident, so that his paintings will finally find buyers.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsBrian AherneGeorge MerrittC.M. HallardA British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans' secret tunnels.
- DirectorEdward DryhurstStarsJulie SuedoGibb McLaughlinFrances CuylerA jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsLupino LaneDorothy SeacombeWarwick Ward
- DirectorEdwin GreenwoodStarsSybil ThorndikeJohn HamiltonBramwell FletcherA woman shelters her epileptic son when he kills a prostitute.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsRalph LynnYvonne ArnaudMary BroughAubrey Henry Maitland Allington is an unsuccessful inventor with a list of debts longer than his name. When financial relief arrives in the form of a large inheritance, Aubrey's exuberance is quickly quashed when he realizes that his creditors will certainly snatch up all of his newly acquired "tons of money" before he lays a hand on it.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsNorah BaringJohn LongdenDonald CalthropAn old Jew is forced to hied the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsLeslie FullerPeter BernardEve GrayLeslie Fuller and Syd Courtney team up once again, this time a 1930s musical set aboard ship on its way to the Middle East.
- DirectorJ.O.C. OrtonStarsTony BruceMichael HoganHal Gordon
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsWalter FordeJoy WindsorFrank StanmoreA songwriter is mistaken for a convict.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsMadeleine CarrollFrank LawtonSam LiveseyA schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsDennis Neilson-TerryBetty StockfeldMalcolm KeenWhen a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsArthur WontnerVanda GrévilleHugh WilliamsA prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsHorace HodgesHugh WilliamsFranklin DyallA young couple lives under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they come under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
- DirectorHerbert WynneStarsFranklin DyallJ.H. RobertsJeanne Stuart
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorFranklin DyallElizabeth AllanBelgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
- DirectorJack RaymondArthur VarneyStarsNelson KeysSydney HowardMargery BinnerAngela threatens divorce after her husband Richard meets up with the drunk Mackintosh at their club.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorAdrianne AllenRichard CooperA famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- DirectorSewell CollinsStarsBert CooteJoyce KennedyD.A. Clarke-SmithAn elderly jeweler is victimized by con artists pretending to be the Russian royal family. He sets out to turn the tables on the criminals and earn a reward that will give him enough to buy a pair of silver bracelets for his wife for their 25th wedding anniversary.
- DirectorEwald André DupontStarsFay ComptonFrank HarveyIan HunterA lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's assistant, Cass. Eileen then begins flirting with a stranger, Kingsley, an absconder who is rescued from the wreck of a motor launch. Kingsley and Cass quarrel; the woman rushes upon the scene with a revolver, fires blindly, and Cass Is shot dead.
- DirectorCecil LewisStarsMarguerite NamaraThomas F. BurkeLance FairfaxOpera adaptation: the story of a duplicitous Spanish gypsy girl working in a cigarette factory, whom men fight over.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsMatheson LangJoseph SchildkrautChili BouchierDuring a performance of Othello, a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife, believing that she has committed adultery.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsJan KiepuraBetty StockfeldHugh WakefieldAn English rich woman travels to Naples seeking distraction. She finds it in her Italian guide, who has such a voice for singing she decides to make him famous, taking him with her to London and offering help for an operatic career.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsAnn CassonCarl HarbordMichael HoganA ballerina falls in love with a wealthy young artist. However, rather than marry her, he wants her to become his mistress. She refuses. Not long afterwards, he tells her he's changed his mind and agrees to marry her, but by this time, she's beginning to wonder if she can trust him or not.
- DirectorEdward DryhurstStarsJulie SuedoSandy IrvingCharles Garry
- DirectorPeter GodfreyStarsCharles LaughtonJane BaxterHarold HuthA customs investigator and his fiancee track down a gang of smugglers whose leader may be a murderer.
- DirectorF.W. KraemerMilton RosmerStarsCedric HardwickeCharles CarsonGeorge MerrittThe story of the infamous case against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, who was accused of high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
- DirectorMiles ManderStarsMadeleine CarrollCarl HarbordDorothy BartlamA vampish actress comes between a happily married couple.
- DirectorSidney MorganStarsIris HoeyFrank CellierMalcolm Tearle
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsSybil ThorndikeJohn StuartNorman McKinnelA Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsJames HarcourtViola LyelFrank PettingellHenry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star boot-maker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners.
- DirectorRichard EichbergStarsGene GerrardMuriel AngelusMargaret YardeA young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.
- DirectorLupino LaneStarsStanley LupinoDorothy BoydJack Hobbs
- DirectorReginald FogwellStarsMadeleine CarrollBrian AherneHenry HewittDuring the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsHerbert MarshallEdna BestFrank Lawton
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsRalph LynnWinifred ShotterJeanne Stuart
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsLeslie FullerMax NesbittAlf Goddard
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsLeslie FullerIris AshleySyd Courtenay
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsNora SwinburneLaurence OlivierNorman McKinnelLady Diana attempts to seduce her young chauffeur only to later charge him with assaulting her.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsStewart RomeJohn LongdenDorothy BoydBusiness tycoon F. X. Benedik claims he has been threatened by a mysterious stranger Boswell Marsh. When F. X. Benedik is found murdered. Tony takes over the business and tries to track down the mysterious Marsh.
- DirectorAlexander EswayStarsJacqueline LoganBernard NedellGordon HarkerThe estranged son of a newspaper owner, who returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsSydney HowardFrederick BentleyHelena PickardA sailor defeats a champion at boxing and wins a girl.
- DirectorGeoffrey BensteadStarsJade HalesGeorge BellamyEthel Lodge
- DirectorMary FieldJacqueline LoganStarsBetty AmannCarl HarbordMolly LamontAn heiress is saved from a blackmailer.
- DirectorHarcourt TemplemanOscar Friedrich WerndorffStarsDonald CalthropJane WelshEdward SinclairMathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow mesmerist supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the mesmerist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
- DirectorT. Hayes HunterStarsHerbert MarshallEdna BestAnne GreyAn ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsHenry KendallBenita HumeWallace GeoffreyThe pilot Vincent Floyd is an amateur sleuth. He infiltrates a gang of criminal jewel smugglers lead by Morella Arlen. Vincent exposes these smugglers with the help of the former gangster sweetheart Marion Lee. He commands a transport plane to pursue the villains' car through a dangerous mountain pass.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsHenry EdwardsDorothy BoydSam Livesey
- DirectorGareth GundreyStarsJohn StuartRobert RendelFrederick LloydWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- DirectorLupino LaneStarsStanley LupinoJack HobbsDorothy BoydA mix-up with suitcases lands a wealthy racing driver (Stanley Lupino) into an embarrassing situation with his fiancée at a party.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsJoan BarryHarold HuthNorman McKinnel
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsPatric CurwenEsmond KnightJohn LongdenA master of disguise commits a series of daring crimes. Nobody knows what he looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner whilst under police protection because he was about to betray him.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGene GerrardJimmy GoddenMuriel Angelus
- DirectorMiles ManderStarsOwen NaresAdrianne AllenDavid Hawthorne
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsBobby HowesDorothy BoydGordon HarkerA country rector, Rev. Arthur Fear, finds his ward Jennifer is being blackmailed by a former lover, Captain Crowther, who holds incriminating letters. Fear attempts to steal them back, but when he breaks into Crowther's flat, he finds another man, Meggitt, another enemy of the Captain, already there. After cracking the safe, the two divide it's contents, the bonds for Meggitt, Jennifer's letters for Arthur. However, the bonds and letter get switched, and Meggitt thinks he's been purposefully double crossed, so he poses as a Bishop at the village church's jumble sale to try and retrieve the bonds.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsLeslie FullerAmy VenessCharles Farrell
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsRalph LynnWinifred ShotterGoing under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsHorace HodgesHugh WilliamsGrethe HansenRichard Morton brought back valuable emeralds from a trip. He has met on the boat a beautiful girl and her uncle. They all take the train together, and the emeralds disappear. Morton has reasons to suspect the uncle.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsFrank LawtonHeather AngelViola LyelA bird's-eye view of life in a City of London office.
- DirectorHarry LachmanStarsGertrude LawrenceHugh WakefieldOwen NaresA honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.