Eliot Makeham Movies

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burt Lancaster

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Leslie Perrins

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Medina

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Cochran

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Douglass Montgomery

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eliot Makeham

Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Seton

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roger Livesey

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Conrad Veidt

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gordon Harker

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ivor Novello

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geoffrey Hibbert

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays...

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Cast: Jessie Matthews

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Dyall

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.

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Cast: June Clyde

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jessie Matthews

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oskar Homolka

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Adele Dixon

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mervyn Johns

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mabel Constanduros

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arthur Margetson

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Graetz

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hugh Sinclair

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ann Todd

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred Emney

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Vivien Leigh

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Hulbert

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathleen Byron

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Stuart

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Redgrave

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gordon Harker

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Montgomery

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Aileen Marson

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Garry Marsh

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clifford Evans

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victoria Hopper

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clive Brook

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs...

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Cast: Joseph Schmidt

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Andrew Ray

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...

Genre: War

Cast: George Formby

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elliott Mason

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Patric Knowles

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Eliot Makeham

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Douglas Wakefield

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vivien Leigh

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Eliot Makeham

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gregory Peck

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Alastair Sim

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Warner

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glynis Johns

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Trinder

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.

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Cast: Anna Neagle

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Mount

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

Genre: War

Cast: John Mills

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Farrar

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

Genre: Music

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Loder

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Milland

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermione Baddeley

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert...

Genre: Music

Cast: Stewart Granger

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Morley

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jessie Matthews

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Tomlinson

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Joan Fontaine

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Genre: Music

Cast: bunny doyle

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Miller