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The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) more movies like this

directed by Harold Young
featuring Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher, O.B. Clarence

This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by ...

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Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage (1934) more movies like this

directed by John Cromwell
featuring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny

The first of three film versions of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage stars Leslie Howard as sensitive, clubfooted artist-cum-med student Philip Carey. Despite his yearnings for the finer things in life, Carey cannot extricate himself from a mutually destructive relationship with sluttish waitress Mildred Rogers (Bette Davis). After an ...

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The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest (1936) more movies like this

directed by Archie Mayo
featuring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Genevieve Tobin

Burned-out British intellectual Alan Squier (Leslie Howard) wanders into the desert service station/restaurant owned by Jason Maple (Porter Hall). Alan finds himself an object of fascination for Jason's starry-eyed daughter, Gabrielle Bette Davis, who dreams of moving to France and establishing herself. Boze Hertzlinger (Dick Foran), Gabrielle's ...

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The First of the Few

The First of the Few (1942) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Howard
featuring Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth

Not a remake of the 1934 Katharine Hepburn film of the same name, Spitfire was originally released in Great Britain as The First of the Few. Director Leslie Howard stars in this dramatization of the life and work of R.J. Mitchell, inventor of the Spitfire fighter plane. The film suggests, accurately as it turns out, that Mitchell was aware of ...

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Pygmalion

Pygmalion (1938) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
featuring Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, Wilfred Lawson, Marie Lohr, Scott Sunderland

Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is an upper class phonetics professor who encounters low-class guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Hiller) and bets his friend Colonel Pickering (Scott Sunderland) that he can pass her off as a ...

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet (1936) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone

Director George Cukor and producer Irving G. Thalberg's adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a lavish production of Shakespeare's tale about two star-crossed lovers, is extremely well-produced and acted. In fact, it is so well-done, that it is easy to forget that Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer are too old to be playing the title characters. Stephen ...

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The 49th Parallel

The 49th Parallel (1941) more movies like this

directed by Michael Powell
featuring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns

49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the citizens of Canada. A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British ...

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The Animal Kingdom

The Animal Kingdom (1932) more movies like this

directed by Edward H. Griffith, George Cukor
featuring Ann Harding, Leslie Howard, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, Neil Hamilton

The first film version of Philip Barry's Broadway play The Animal Kingdom stars Ann Harding, Leslie Howard and Myrna Loy. Howard plays a wealthy publisher who decides to marry the socially prominent Loy, leaving his mistress Harding in the lurch. In comically convoluted fashion, Loy behaves like a callous libertine, while Harding is the soul of ...

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Intermezzo

Intermezzo (1939) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Cecil Kellaway

Gregory Ratoff directed David O. Selznick's richly produced American remake of the Swedish film directed by Gustav Molander and starring Ingrid Bergman, who re-creates her role here. The story -- based on the original screenplay by Molander and Gosta Stevens -- concerns a love affair played out between famed concert violinist Holger Brandt (Leslie ...

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Smilin' Through

Smilin' Through (1932) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Franklin
featuring Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O.P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes

Director Sidney Franklin originally adapted Jane Murfin and Jane Cowl's play Smilin' Through for the silver screen in a 1922 silent film starring Norma Talmadge and (the other) Harrison Ford. Remaking his own film, Franklin directed Norma Shearer in this 1932 talkie. Leslie Howard plays John Carteret, an old man whose fiancée (Shearer) was killed ...

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Stand-In

Stand-In (1937) more movies like this

directed by Tay Garnett
featuring Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, Marla Shelton

Bookish bank employee Atterbury Dodd (Leslie Howard) is ordered to investigate the near-bankrupt Colossal Studios in Hollywood, to see if the firm is any sort of good risk. Dodd's first brush with Tinseltown's cuckoo atmosphere occurs when he takes a room in a boarding house for extras, where all manner of eccentrics wander about as they wait for ...

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Secrets (1933) more movies like this

directed by Frank Borzage
featuring Mary Pickford, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith, Blanche Frederici, Doris Lloyd

Silent screen legend Mary Pickford makes her final movie appearance in Secrets, adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier and Mary Edgerton. Edgerton plays a 19th century New England belle who accompanies her husband Leslie Howard to the wilds of California. Pickford's first baby is killed when her cabin is besieged by desperadoes. Howard's reaction ...

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