Movies: Wilfrid Lawson
- 1940
Pastor Hall (1940)
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The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villager...
- 1944
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
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Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother ...
- 1941
Danny Boy (1941)
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A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times....
- 1941
The Farmer's Wife (1941)
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Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-...
- 1936
White Hunter (1936)
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Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his father's death......
- 1935
Turn of the Tide (1935)
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Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorkshire fishing village, and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. The actors included John ...
- 1958
Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
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Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy....
- 1947
The Turners of Prospect Road (1947)
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A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby....
- 1938
Bank Holiday (1938)
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A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are...
- 1955
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955)
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Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and while his first instinct is to get rid of it he develops a relationship with a young Irishwoman who ap...
- 1954
Make Me an Offer! (1954)
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A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are...
- 1956
Now and Forever (1956)
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A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope....
- 1933
Strike It Rich (1933)
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Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' and pronounces him another Napoleon. Eddie becomes a changed man and issues orders to everyone. Me...
- 1940
It Happened to One Man (1940)
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A film directed by Paul L. Stein....
- 1940
Dead Man's Shoes (1940)
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An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off....
- 1938
The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
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A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'....
- 1939
Stolen Life (1939)
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Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling r...
- 1965
The Siege of Manchester (1965)
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A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War....
- 1943
Thursday's Child (1943)
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A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble....
- 1937
The Man Who Made Diamonds (1937)
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“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI....