Treasure Island (1950) more movies like this

directed by Byron Haskin
featuring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea

The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best live-action films of the '50s, and one of the best family-oriented adventures ever filmed. Bobby Driscoll plays Jim Hawkins, a young cabin boy who battles the pirate Long John Silver (Robert Newton) for a treasure. Disney changes the ...

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Hamlet (1948) more movies like this

directed by Laurence Olivier
featuring Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer

Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Danish prince who's still melancholy over the ...

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Went the Day Well? (1942) more movies like this

directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
featuring Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor

Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film covers 72 hours in the life of the small British village of Bramley Green, which serves as the focal point for an attempted German invasion. Immediately upon parachuting in the community, vicious Nazi officer Ortier (Basil ...

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Sea Wife (1957) more movies like this

directed by Bob McNaught
featuring Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire

In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert island. Before they reach the shore, a shark ...

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Next of Kin (1942) more movies like this

directed by Thorold Dickinson
featuring Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins, David Hutcheson

The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In grade-school-primer fashion, the film shows how careless talk can have a devastating and tragic effect in times of war, sometimes boomeranging on the "talker" in the form of lost loved ones. Extra attention is paid the gossipy ...

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Accused (1936) more movies like this

directed by Thornton Freeland
featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Dolores Del Rio, Florence Desmond, Basil Sydney, Athole Stewart

Accused is a British melodrama starring American actor (and confirmed Anglophile) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Somewhat incongruously cast as an Apache dancer, Fairbanks and his dance partner/wife Dolores Del Rio headline a Paris musical. Fairbanks becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Florence Desmond (the famed British ...

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The Angel with the Trumpet (1950) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Bushell, Karl Hartl
featuring Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland, Anthony Bushell, Maria Schell

Eileen Herlie, a German girl of Jewish heritage, is in love with Norman Wooland, but at her family's insistence marries Basil Sydney. Wooland's reaction is swift and decisive: he commits suicide. Years later, Hitler comes to power. Once more, Herlie's fate is in the hands of others. This time, however, she makes up her own mind as to what her ...

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1941) more movies like this

directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
featuring Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt, Felix Aylmer

In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the Nazis who are trying to prevent the signing of an important trade agreement between South American countries and England. When the professor learns that a Nazi agent has breached security and is posing as the economics expert ...

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Crime over London (1936) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Zeisler
featuring Joseph Cawthorn, Basil Sydney, Margot Grahame, Paul Cavanagh, Renee Ray

In this British gangster movie, a Chicago gang goes to cool their heels in London. There they try to overtake the town. Meanwhile the mob boss searches for the perfect job. He convinces a millionaire, the owner of a department store, to help his gang rob the store blind. The plot fails and the gangsters battle it out with the bobbies. Sandra ...

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Ships with Wings (1941) more movies like this

directed by Sergei Nolbandov
featuring John Clements, Leslie Banks, Jane Baxter, Ann Todd, Basil Sydney

This stirring wartime morale-booster stars John Clements in a virtual reprise of his "redeemed hero" role in The Four Feathers. Clements is cast as Lieutenant Stacey, a Fleet Arm Pilot whose recklessness causes the death of a fellow airman. Cashiered from the Service, Stacey becomes a mercenary charter pilot in the Mediterranean Island of Palmos. ...

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Rhodes (1936) more movies like this

directed by Berthold Viertel
featuring Walter Huston, Oscar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier, Peggy Ashcroft

African-American students who have accepted Rhodes scholarships may feel like wincing at Rhodes of Africa, an unabashed celebration of British imperialism. Walter Huston portrays Cecil Rhodes, the 19th century explorer who dreamed of "taming" the rugged African terrain. Establishing the colony of Rhodesia, the film's "hero" opens up the rest of ...

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