Movies: Elwyn Brook-Jones

  • 1959
    The Ugly Duckling

    The Ugly Duckling (1959)

    The Ugly Duckling

    5.81959HD

    Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of t...

    The Ugly Duckling
  • 1949
    The Small Back Room

    The Small Back Room (1949)

    The Small Back Room

    6.71949HD

    As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol....

    The Small Back Room
  • 1947
    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out (1947)

    Odd Man Out

    7.21947HD

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

    Odd Man Out
  • 1941
    Dangerous Moonlight

    Dangerous Moonlight (1941)

    Dangerous Moonlight

    6.41941HD

    Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn W...

    Dangerous Moonlight
  • 1958
    Passport to Shame

    Passport to Shame (1958)

    Passport to Shame

    6.41958HD

    British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade....

    Passport to Shame
  • 1955
    The Gilded Cage

    The Gilded Cage (1955)

    The Gilded Cage

    5.21955HD

    Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence....

    The Gilded Cage
  • 1948
    The Three Weird Sisters

    The Three Weird Sisters (1948)

    The Three Weird Sisters

    71948HD

    Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town a...

    The Three Weird Sisters
  • 1958
    The Duke Wore Jeans

    The Duke Wore Jeans (1958)

    The Duke Wore Jeans

    5.21958HD

    A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess....

    The Duke Wore Jeans
  • 1948
    It's Hard to be Good

    It's Hard to be Good (1948)

    It's Hard to be Good

    5.51948HD

    A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters....

    It's Hard to be Good
  • 1941
    'Pimpernel' Smith

    'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)

    'Pimpernel' Smith

    7.11941HD

    Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of th...

    'Pimpernel' Smith
  • 1957
    Rogue's Yarn

    Rogue's Yarn (1957)

    Rogue's Yarn

    5.51957HD

    An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story....

    Rogue's Yarn
  • 1952
    Judgment Deferred

    Judgment Deferred (1952)

    Judgment Deferred

    61952HD

    A group of very strange men, refugees and casualties of the war, rally round when one of their number is framed by a drug racketeer. Co-opting a well-known journalist to their cause, they scheme to bring the racketeer to justice in a home-made "trial...

    Judgment Deferred
  • 1948
    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)

    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    4.71948HD

    Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain....

    Bonnie Prince Charlie
  • 1949
    Dear Mr. Prohack

    Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

    Dear Mr. Prohack

    61949HD

    A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth....

    Dear Mr. Prohack
  • 1948
    Good-Time Girl

    Good-Time Girl (1948)

    Good-Time Girl

    6.11948HD

    Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result....

    Good-Time Girl
  • 1954
    The Harassed Hero

    The Harassed Hero (1954)

    The Harassed Hero

    61954HD

    Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any stress or excitement in his life. Unfortunately -- thanks to a chance encounter in a London taxi cab ...

    The Harassed Hero
  • 1960
    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)

    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

    6.41960HD

    The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. F...

    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
  • 1952
    The Night Won't Talk

    The Night Won't Talk (1952)

    The Night Won't Talk

    01952HD

    When a beautiful young artist's model is strangled in her bed, Scotland Yard find themselves with three suspects -- her sinister ex-husband (Elwyn Brook-Jones), a sexually disturbed artist (Ballard Berkeley) and her violent new boyfriend (John Bailey...

    The Night Won't Talk
  • 1956
    Assignment Redhead

    Assignment Redhead (1956)

    Assignment Redhead

    4.61956HD

    An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail o...

    Assignment Redhead
  • 1947
    Rope

    Rope (1947)

    Rope

    01947HD

    Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime....

    Rope