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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) more movies like this

directed by Sam Wood
featuring Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Henreid

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) who devotes his life to teaching "his boys" after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine (Greer Garson). Told via flashbacks, the film features an aged Mr. Chipping looking back nostalgically at his ...

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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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The Chalk Garden

The Chalk Garden (1964) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans, Elizabeth Sellars

This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British "problem child" Laurel (Hayley Mills). Both Madrigal and faithful butler Maitland (John Mills) are aware that Laurel's atrocious behavior stems from her belief that her oft-married mother (Elizabeth Sellars) does not love her. ...

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Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn (1979) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Hickox
featuring Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport

This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege by thousands of Zulu warriors. Fifteen hundred soldiers were killed in the epic battle. This film portrays the tensions existing between the tribal factions and the British invaders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve (1942) more movies like this

directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
featuring Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce Carey

Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness Coward's sober, no-nonsense direction (in collaboration with his co-director/editor, David Lean) and to watch his straightforward portrayal of navy captain Kinross, one would never suspect that he'd ...

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Operation Crossbow

Operation Crossbow (1965) more movies like this

directed by Michael Anderson
featuring Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Tom Courtenay, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Kemp, Paul Henreid, Helmut Dantine

This big-budget, big-studio espionage film is set in the last years of World War II. George Peppard, Tom Courtenay and Jeremy Kemp parachute into Germany, with orders to destroy the Nazis' V-1 rocket base at Peenemunde. Given the order of billing, guess which special operative survives the longest. This being an MGM production, Peppard has time to ...

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Hobson's Choice

Hobson's Choice (1953) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales

A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills is the assistant to domineering boot-shop owner ...

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Cats

Cats (1998) more movies like this

directed by David Mallet
featuring Jacob Brent, Ken Page, Elaine Paige, John Mills

One of the longest-running hits in the history of Broadway and the West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has been specially re-staged for this presentation, which captures all the music and movement of the original stage production with an uncommon intimacy and depth. The cast includes Elaine Paige, Sir John Mills, and Ken Page. Included in the ...

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Quatermass

Quatermass (1979) more movies like this

directed by Piers Haggard
featuring John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman, Margaret Tyzack, Brewster Mason

The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name. Like the earlier Quatermass projects of the 1950s and 1960s, the guiding force behind Conclusion was prolific screenwriter Nigel Kneale, though the series (and the film) hardly represent his best work. This time John Mills is Prof. Bernard ...

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When the Wind Blows

When the Wind Blows (1986) more movies like this

directed by Jimmy T. Murakami
featuring Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills

In this animated film, based on the novel by Raymond Briggs, an older English couple must struggle to deal with their altered reality when a nuclear war strikes, destroying their peaceful lives. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

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Dr. Strange

Dr. Strange (1978) more movies like this

directed by Philip de Guere Jr.
featuring Peter Hooten, John Mills, Jessica Walter

Dr. Steven Strange, the Marvel Comics magician/superhero created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, made his long-awaited screen debut in this 1978 TV pilot film. Peter Hooten plays Strange, while Sir John Mills portrays the doctor's sorcerer shaman, "The Ancient One." The Ancient One (whose real name is Lindmer) allows Strange access to the ...

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations ever made as well as one of the greatest British ...

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Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory (1960) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York

Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a regiment until his replacement, Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives. Sinclair comes from the lower echelons of the social order but ...

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Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb (1974) more movies like this

directed by Robert Bolt
featuring Fanny Rowe, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain, John Mills, Margaret Leighton

Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of William Lamb, Lord of Melbourne, and the author of the poem Childe Harold, Lord Byron. Excited and embarrassed by the attendant affections heaped upon him, Byron found his writing talent waning, and in 1813 the lovers ended ...

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The Swiss Family Robinson

The Swiss Family Robinson (1960) more movies like this

directed by Ken Annakin
featuring John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, Sessue Hayakawa

None of the many cinemadaptations of Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson are as relentlessly enjoyable as this 1960 Disney feature. The film wastes no time getting down to business, with the shipwreck of the Robinson family occurring as the credits flash across the screen. Fashioning a raft, the family heads to a lush tropical island. While the ...

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The Rocking Horse Winner

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Pelissier
featuring Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills, Hugh Sinclair

D.H. Lawrence's tragic fable The Rocking Horse Winner is faithfully transferred to the screen in this 1950 gem. John Howard Davies, the young star of Oliver Twist (and the future chief film editor at the BBC) plays sensitive lad Paul Grahame, whose selfish, grasping mother (Valerie Hobson) warps his values. When his mom once more whines over her ...

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Best of British Cinema: Five Decades of Classic British Films

Best of British Cinema: Five Decades of Classic British Films (1988) more movies like this

This documentary, narrated by Sir John Mills, looks back at the history of the British film industry, and features clips from many of the most memorable films to come from England, beginning with 1933's The Private Life Of Henry VIII and following through to the mid-1980s, with emphasis on some of the great stars of the United Kingdom, including ...

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Ryan's Daughter

Ryan's Daughter (1970) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, John Mills

The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular." Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan (Leo McKern). Married to tweedy, sexless ...

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Tiger Bay

Tiger Bay (1959) more movies like this

directed by J. Lee Thompson
featuring John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins

Twelve-year-old Hayley Mills made her film starring debut in the location-filmed melodrama Tiger Bay. Horst Buchholz plays a Polish sailor who, while docked in Cardiff, jealously murders his ex-girlfriend Yvonne Mitchell. The killing is witnessed by Hayley, a lonely, hoydenish preteen whose only interest in the crime is Buccholz' abandoned gun. ...

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King Rat

King Rat (1965) more movies like this

directed by Bryan Forbes
featuring George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, John Mills, Todd Armstrong

James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version stars George Segal as the mastermind of all black market operations in a Japanese prison camp. He is called "King Rat" because of his breeding of rodents to serve as food for his emaciated fellow prisoners; the nickname also ...

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The Masks of Death

The Masks of Death (1984) more movies like this

directed by Roy Ward Baker
featuring Peter Cushing, John Mills, Ray Milland, Anne Baxter, Anton Diffring

Twenty-seven years after Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Peter Cushing makes a belated return to the role of Sherlock Holmes in the made-for-television Masks of Death. Befitting his age, Cushing plays Holmes in retirement, content to play his violin and look after his bees. He is dragged back into action by a series of baffling East End murders. ...

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Murder With Mirrors

Murder With Mirrors (1985) more movies like this

directed by Dick Lowry
featuring Dorothy Tutin, John Mills, Helen Hayes, Bette Davis, Leo McKern

Helen Hayes makes her second TV appearance as Agatha Christie's female sleuth Miss Marple in Murder with Mirrors. Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won't be the last corpse to befoul the estate. She's right, and the ...

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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) more movies like this

directed by Carol Reed
featuring Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Max Adrian, Raymond Lovell

Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament alerting his countrymen of the dangers posed by France ...

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The Family Way

The Family Way (1966) more movies like this

directed by Roy Boulting
featuring Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Comer, Avril Angers, John Mills

This gently farcical British comedy stars Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as Jenny and Arthur, a young couple who have just gotten married. However, while both of them are filled with anticipation for their honeymoon, a practical joke played by their "friends" causes their bed to collapse just as they're about to consummate their relationship. ...

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The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box (1966) more movies like this

directed by Bryan Forbes
featuring John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore

Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed 1000 pounds in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surving member of the tontine. A series of montages depicts the various demises of the ...

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