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Kind Hearts and Coronets
(1949)
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directed by
Robert Hamer
featuring
Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of ...
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The Bride of Frankenstein
(1935)
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directed by
James Whale
featuring
Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernst Thesiger, Dwight Frye
This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), Percy Shelley (Douglas Walton), and Shelley's wife Mary (Elsa Lanchester) engage in morbidly sparkling conversation. The wicked Byron mockingly chastises Mary for frightening the literary world with ...
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Great Expectations
(1946)
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directed by
David Lean
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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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The Werewolf of London
(1935)
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directed by
Stuart Walker
featuring
Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, Spring Byington
Originally intended as a vehicle for Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, this Universal production predated The Wolf Man by six years, but failed to whip up audience enthusiasm for the monster popularized by Lon Chaney, Jr. in the studio's later classic. Henry Hull stars as botanist Dr. Glendon, whose foray through Tibet in search of a rare night ...
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The Rocking Horse Winner
(1949)
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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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Contraband
(1940)
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directed by
Michael Powell
featuring
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight
The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled to ascede to British demands, but dreads the delay, pointing out that the medical supplies in ...
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August Week-End
(1936)
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directed by
Charles Lamont
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Valerie Hobson, Paul Harvey, Betty Compson, Claire McDowell
Chesterfield Films, one of the busiest (though not necessarily one of the best) poverty-row operations of the 1930s, was responsible for the amiable comedy August Week-End. 19-year-old Valerie Hobson is top-billed, but the film's real star is G. P. Huntley Jr., playing a British business entrepreneur. Deciding that he's outgrown his bourgeois wife ...
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Life Returns
(1939)
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directed by
Eugene Frenke
featuring
Onslow Stevens, Lois Wilson, Valerie Hobson
A genuine oddity, Life Returns was originally filmed by Universal Pictures in 1935. The story, concerning the efforts by researchers Onslow Stevens and Lois Wilson to find a means to briefly bring dead animals back to life for research purposes, was built around the actual accomplishments of Dr. Robert E. Cornish of the University of California ...
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The Secret of Stamboul
(1936)
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directed by
Andrew Marton
featuring
Valerie Hobson, Frank Vosper, James Mason, Peter Haddon, Kay Walsh
In this actioner, two guards lose their jobs after they start a fight with a lascivious Arab prince who tries to seduce one of their girl friends. Fortunately, the girl friend's father is thankful and gives her love a job managing one of his tobacco warehouses in Turkey. Unfortunately, he meets a beautiful Russian girl there and soon falls in love ...
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Unpublished Story
(1942)
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directed by
Harold French
featuring
Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver
Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He returns to his job in a London now facing nightly German bombing raids, and finds himself saddled with Carol Bennett (Valerie Hobson), a neophyte reporter. Bob is eager to take on the Nazis and, in the absence of any on the ...
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The Interrupted Journey
(1949)
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directed by
Daniel Birt
featuring
Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Alexander Gauge
Intending to run off with the wife (Christine Norden) of his publisher (Alexander Gauge), novelist John North (Richard Todd) thinks the better of it as he sits in the compartment of a speeding train. North's journey is interrupted (hence the title) by a train crash, in which his lover is killed. Sifting through the wreckage, railroad inspector ...
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The Adventures of Tartu
(1943)
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directed by
Harold S. Bucquet
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Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilia, Phyllis Morris
Tartu--or more formally, The Adventures of Tartu--stars Robert Donat as a Rumanian-born British spy, dispatched to Czechoslovakia during World War II. Posing as an ineffectual milquetoast, Donat is hired as a chemist in a Nazi-controlled poison gas factory. Working in concert with the Underground, our hero spends his off-hours dismantling the Nazi ...
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Train of Events
(1949)
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directed by
Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Sidney Cole
featuring
Jack Warner, Valerie Hobson, John Clements, Irina Baronova, Peter Finch, Joan Dowling, John Gregson
The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner plays the engine driver, whose daughter's boy friend is responsible for the crash. Peter Finch plays a homicidal actor whose "perfect murder" of his wife is thwarted by the wreck. Lonely orphan girl Joan Dowling is killed while ...
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When Thief Meets Thief
(1937)
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directed by
Raoul Walsh
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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Valerie Hobson, Alan Hale, Jack Melford, Anthony Ireland
Directed by Raoul Walsh, When Thief Meets Thief chronicles the story of two ex-partners in crime who have fallen in love with the same woman. When cat-burglar Ricky Morgan (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) gets emotionally involved with one of his victims, Glory Fane (Valerie Hobson), he doesn't realize that she's engaged to his adversary, Jim Dial (Alan ...
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Background
(1953)
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directed by
Daniel Birt
featuring
Rick Hart, Valerie Hobson, Phillip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Mandy Miller
Background is a tearful flashback drama centering around a dysfunctional family. Valerie Hobson and Philip Friend play a long-married couple on the verge of divorce. As they ponder the question of who will receive custody of their children (Janette Scott, Mandy Miller and Jeremy Spencer), the couple has second thoughts about their upcoming ...
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Sons of the Sea
(1941)
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directed by
Walter Forde
featuring
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power, Margaretta Scott
Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a romanticized recounting of the first-ever steamship crossing of the Atlantic in 1837. Michael Redgrave and Griffith Jones star as the MacIver brothers (the film is based on a story by one of the MacIver progeny). The siblings battle ...
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The Spy in Black
(1939)
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directed by
Michael Powell
featuring
Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez
The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover British intelligence secrets. Once he arrives in the Orkney Islands, he meets up with a female schoolteacher (Valerie Hobson), who happens to be a German agent. Veidt falls in love with Hobson before discovering she's actually ...
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