Fay Compton Movies

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Julie Harris

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Mason

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl...

Genre: History

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Orson Welles

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fay Compton

A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etchika Choureau

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mai Zetterling

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivor Novello

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Mason

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Donald Houston

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

In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Bruce

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronald Shiner

An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fay Compton

American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robertson Hare

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joanna Shimkus

Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Crawford

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Binney

A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is the serial killer at large.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jenny Agutter

A comedy film directed by Norman Walker

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fay Compton

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

Genre: History

Cast: Fay Compton

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton

Directed by Thorold Dickinson.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gielgud

A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fay Compton