John Longden Movies

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Betta St. John

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Niven

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.

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Cast: John Longden

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: C. V. France

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Conrad Veidt

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Patrick Barr

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Morley

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

Genre: Action

Cast: Anthony Newley

Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the...

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Cast: Cecil Kellaway

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Susan Stephen

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anny Ondra

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hy Hazell

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna May Wong

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Genre: Music

Cast: Tommy Handley

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybil Thorndike

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Rome

A humble girl's rise to fame.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rène Ray

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

A showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rène Ray

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gilda Gray

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bonar Colleano

Robert Ayres is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Christine Norden

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Brian Donlevy

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Elissa Landi

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norah Baring

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Patric Curwen

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wallace Bosco

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franklin Dyall

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?

Genre: Crime

Cast: Barbara James

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merle Oberon

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

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Cast: Mabel Poulton

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

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mark Stevens

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of...

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Stanley Baker

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Niven

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Baker

A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Longden

Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Warwick

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and...

Genre: Family

Cast: Douglas Barr

'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ben Blue

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne De Casalis

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jill Ireland

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But...

Genre: Romance

Cast: David Niven

A mystery thriller intended for US TV.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Derrick De Marney

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