Edward Chapman Movies

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raymond Massey

'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Cast: Anna Neagle

When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Herbert Marshall

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Dean Jagger

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Googie Withers

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly...

Genre: War

Cast: Norman Wisdom

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Fitzgerald

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ian Carmichael

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roland Young

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: C. V. France

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

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

A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jimmy Hanley

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Robeson

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Jones

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

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ava Gardner

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

Genre: Music

Cast: George Formby

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eric Portman

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Laura La Plante

Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.

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Cast: Grey Blake

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Portman

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marius Goring

Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sophie Stewart

An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Herbert Lom

Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case,...

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Cast: Clifford Mollison

World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Tauber

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Arthur Margetson

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Derek Farr

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Barbara Mullen

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dolly Haas

Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

Vestø island's isolated community's prize cow is in danger of being abducted by German WWII occupation forces.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henning Moritzen

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

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flora Robson

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flora Robson

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the...

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Cast: William Franklyn

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

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

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

Genre: War

Cast: John Clements

British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mártha Eggerth

Tommy Trinder promotes the virtues of the wartime communal British Restaurants.

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Cast: Tommy Trinder

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Morley

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Chapman

The 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hermione Baddeley

A young woman falls in love with an aristocrat and tries to convince his parents that she is herself wealthy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard

The officers of the Flying Squad attempt to track down a drug-smuggling gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Harold Huth

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Hawkins

Who Killed John Savage?

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Cast: Nicholas Hannen

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry H. Corbett

An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter M. Thompson

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he's hired by Aristides Mavros for a more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ray Milland

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Roger Moore

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sebastian Shaw

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gregson

Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Finlay Currie

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.

Genre: Music

Cast: Lilian Harvey

In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Lodge