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We Dive at Dawn

We Dive at Dawn (1943) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Asquith
featuring Eric Portman, John Mills, Reginald Purdell, Louis Bradfield, Niall MacGinnis, Jack Watling, Joan Hopkins, Ronald Millar, Leslie Weston

After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when suddenly they're called back to active duty. Sub commander John Mills has been ordered to pursue and sink the formidable German battleship Brandenburg. A series of nailbiting seaborne perils, each one more life-threatening than ...

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Wanted for Murder

Wanted for Murder (1946) more movies like this

directed by Lawrence Huntington
featuring Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver, Stanley Holloway

Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground. She's delayed by the train for a meeting with her friend Victor Colebrooke (Eric Portman) at Hampstead Heath; the two of them take a liking to each other while she's trying to find Victor. She finally locates him and they leave ...

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A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale (1944) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet, Charles Hawtrey

Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of the peace Eric Portman adopting a "lock up your daughters" policy when the American soldiers are stationed nearby. To escape the arbitrary edicts of Portman, British tank sergeant Dennis Price, American GI John Sweet and ...

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Moonlight Sonata

Moonlight Sonata (1937) more movies like this

directed by Lothar Mendes
featuring Ignace Jan Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest, Barbara Greene, Eric Portman

Shortly before his desultory political career, famed Polish concert pianist Jan Paderewski starred as himself in the British romantic drama Moonlight Sonata. The bulk of the film is set in Sweden, where Eric Molander (Charles Farrell) professes his love for beautiful young baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest). Nearby, a plane carrying Paderewski ...

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Deadfall

Deadfall (1968) more movies like this

directed by Bryan Forbes
featuring Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, David Buck

In this clunky suspense film, straining to be Hitchcockian, Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers an unusual arrangement -- apparently Fe Moreau would rather engage in a relationship with an ex-alcoholic than her husband Richard (Eric Portman) ...

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Corridor of Mirrors

Corridor of Mirrors (1948) more movies like this

directed by Terence Young
featuring Eric Portman, Edana Romney, Barbara Mullen, Hugh Sinclair, Hugh Latimer

Based on a novel by Chris Massie, Corridor of Mirrors is a British attempt to match the poetry and lyricism of the French cinema of the late 1940s. Eric Portman plays a contemporary artist who tends to live in the past. He surrounds himself with Renaissance artwork, obsessed with the notion that he and his lady friend (Edana Romney) are ...

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Murder in the Red Barn

Murder in the Red Barn (1936) more movies like this

directed by Milton Rosmer
featuring Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Clare Greet, Eric Portman

Dear old Tod Slaughter serves up another chop-licking melodrama with Murder in the Red Barn. Based on a barnstorming, fact-based American play, the film features the redoubtable Mr. Slaughter as Squire William Corder, potential defiler of the virtue of virginal Maria Marten (Sophia Stewart). When she refuses to let him have his way with her, ...

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Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us (1943) more movies like this

directed by Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
featuring Eric Portman, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Joy Shelton

Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson). After they marry, he is killed in battle. Roc ...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1941) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Pamela Brown

This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all dedicated to the freedom-fighting activities of the ...

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The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story (1955) more movies like this

directed by Guy Hamilton
featuring John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes

During World War II, the impenetrable Colditz castle in Germany was selected as the site for a POW camp. The Germans reason that, since Colditz has been virtually impossible to get into or out of for centuries, it is ideal for housing the most contentious allied prisoners. British officer John Mills doesn't agree, and leads an escape through a ...

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Great Day (1946) more movies like this

directed by Lance Comfort
featuring Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans, Walter Fitzgerald

American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the Anglo-American coproduction Great Day. As the villagers prepare for their prestigious guest, all sorts of internal squabbles and personal foibles rise to the surface. The story concentrates on embittered WW1 veteran Captain Ellis ...

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Child in the House (1956) more movies like this

directed by Cy Raker Endfield
featuring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman, Stanley Baker, Mandy Miller, Dora Bryan

In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police. This causes ...

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The Spider and the Fly (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, Eric Portman, Edward Chapman, Maurice Denham

The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is ...

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