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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Green for Danger (1947) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Gilliat
featuring Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell

At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses who was present announces that the man's death was no accident, but a murder -- and then she, too, is murdered. The police are called in, led by Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim) of Scotland Yard, and he soon determines that ...

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Fame Is the Spur (1947) more movies like this

directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
featuring Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden

When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to help the beleaguered workers in his area, he takes as his symbol a sword passed down to him by an ancestor who picked it up at the Battle of Peterloo in 1819, where it had been used against workers. Beginning as an idealistic ...

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The Lamp Still Burns (1943) more movies like this

directed by Maurice Elvey
featuring Rosamund John, Godfrey Tearle, Stewart Granger, Sophie Stewart, Margaret Vyner

Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals-and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's selfless nurses. Rosamund John is a tower of strength as Hilary Clarke, a young woman who sacrifices ...

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The Gentle Sex (1943) more movies like this

directed by Leslie Howard, Maurice Elvey
featuring Joan Gates, Joan Greenwood, Jean Gillie, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer

Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of the title--seven in all--are actually determined young British moderns who go into military service during World War II. In true "Army bomber crew" fashion, the film explores the widely varied backgrounds of the ladies ...

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