Movies: John Hawkesworth

  • 1951
    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

    6.61951HD

    Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love....

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  • 1959
    Tiger Bay

    Tiger Bay (1959)

    Tiger Bay

    7.21959HD

    In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a ...

    Tiger Bay
  • 1956
    The Man Who Never Was

    The Man Who Never Was (1956)

    The Man Who Never Was

    71956HD

    The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied ...

    The Man Who Never Was
  • 1954
    Father Brown

    Father Brown (1954)

    Father Brown

    6.41954HD

    Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul....

    Father Brown
  • 1955
    The Prisoner

    The Prisoner (1955)

    The Prisoner

    7.21955HD

    A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is ...

    The Prisoner
  • 1952
    The Sound Barrier

    The Sound Barrier (1952)

    The Sound Barrier

    6.51952HD

    A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service....

    The Sound Barrier
  • 1950
    State Secret

    State Secret (1950)

    State Secret

    6.71950HD

    While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series o...

    State Secret
  • 1949
    The Third Man

    The Third Man (1949)

    The Third Man

    7.91949HD

    In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time o...

    The Third Man
  • 1953
    Saadia

    Saadia (1953)

    Saadia

    5.81953HD

    Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his c...

    Saadia
  • 1987
    The Sign of Four

    The Sign of Four (1987)

    The Sign of Four

    7.31987HD

    Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857....

    The Sign of Four
  • 1992
    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    7.21992HD

    Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation i...

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
  • 1949
    The Last Days of Dolwyn

    The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)

    The Last Days of Dolwyn

    6.81949HD

    An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up....

    The Last Days of Dolwyn
  • 1988
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    7.11988HD

    When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate....

    The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 1983
    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    The Tale of Beatrix Potter (1983)

    The Tale of Beatrix Potter

    01983HD

    Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter....

    The Tale of Beatrix Potter
  • 1993
    Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

    Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One (1993)

    Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

    01993HD

    Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion....

    Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
  • 1955
    Rowlandson's England

    Rowlandson's England (1955)

    Rowlandson's England

    01955HD

    England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons....

    Rowlandson's England