Movies: Freddie Young

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career....

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week....

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The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in l...

The manager of a rubber plantation marries a native and she tries to poison him....

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel w...

Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant....

British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps...

A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom....

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her ro...

Documentary about the making of the epic 1962 film, with reminiscences from surviving cast and crew....

Biography of the ploughboy poet....

When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is...

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)...

Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into e...

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship....

A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues....

'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings....

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