Movies: Eliot Makeham

  • 1942
    They Flew Alone

    They Flew Alone (1942)

    They Flew Alone

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    The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy....

    They Flew Alone
  • 1956
    Sailor Beware

    Sailor Beware (1956)

    Sailor Beware

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    Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding....

    Sailor Beware
  • 1940
    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday (1940)

    Return to Yesterday

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    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England....

    Return to Yesterday
  • 1944
    Give Us the Moon

    Give Us the Moon (1944)

    Give Us the Moon

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    Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn'...

    Give Us the Moon
  • 1953
    The Fake

    The Fake (1953)

    The Fake

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    Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitche...

    The Fake
  • 1938
    Vessel of Wrath

    Vessel of Wrath (1938)

    Vessel of Wrath

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    Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their retur...

    Vessel of Wrath
  • 1940
    Busman's Honeymoon

    Busman's Honeymoon (1940)

    Busman's Honeymoon

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    When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be foun...

    Busman's Honeymoon
  • 1936
    Calling the Tune

    Calling the Tune (1936)

    Calling the Tune

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    Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states...

    Calling the Tune
  • 1940
    A Window in London

    A Window in London (1940)

    A Window in London

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    A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who...

    A Window in London
  • 1934
    Lorna Doone

    Lorna Doone (1934)

    Lorna Doone

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    High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna....

    Lorna Doone
  • 1940
    Food for Thought

    Food for Thought (1940)

    Food for Thought

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    In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the ...

    Food for Thought
  • 1953
    The Yellow Balloon

    The Yellow Balloon (1953)

    The Yellow Balloon

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    A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death....

    The Yellow Balloon
  • 1951
    Scarlet Thread

    Scarlet Thread (1951)

    Scarlet Thread

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    Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run....

    Scarlet Thread
  • 1939
    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1939)

    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

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    An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot....

    The Nursemaid Who Disappeared
  • 1944
    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie (1944)

    Champagne Charlie

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    A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention....

    Champagne Charlie
  • 1937
    Farewell Again

    Farewell Again (1937)

    Farewell Again

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    Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try...

    Farewell Again
  • 1941
    The Common Touch

    The Common Touch (1941)

    The Common Touch

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    The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the C...

    The Common Touch
  • 1937
    East of Ludgate Hill

    East of Ludgate Hill (1937)

    East of Ludgate Hill

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    When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiab...

    East of Ludgate Hill
  • 1935
    Her Last Affaire

    Her Last Affaire (1935)

    Her Last Affaire

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    Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death....

    Her Last Affaire
  • 1934
    Unfinished Symphony

    Unfinished Symphony (1934)

    Unfinished Symphony

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    Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Mino...

    Unfinished Symphony