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Tag Archives: Carol Reed
The Stars Look Down (1940) Carol Reed, Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Edward Rigby
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent Read More »
Climbing High (1938) Carol Reed, Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance Read More »
Laburnum Grove (1936) Carol Reed, Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper
Laburnum Grove is a suburb so dull one could actually hear the tomatoes grow in the gardens. Read More »
Our Man in Havana (1959) Carol Reed, Alec Guinness, Maureen O’Hara, Burl Ives
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. Read More »
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942) Carol Reed, Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known Read More »
Trapeze (1956) Carol Reed, Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist – and the only to have completed a triple somersault – before his accident. Read More »
It Happened in Paris (1935) Robert Wyler, Carol Reed, John Loder, Nancy Burne, Edward H. Robins
Whilst looking for artistic inspiration in Paris, a millionaire’s son falls for a beautiful girl. Read More »
Flap (1970) Carol Reed, Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill
A hard-drinking, reckless-living Indian named Flapping Eagle decides that his people have been pushed around by the white man long enough. Read More »
The Girl in the News (1940) Carol Reed, Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams
Nurse Anne Graham is controversially – but rightly – acquitted of murder after her elderly patient dies in suspicious circumstances. Read More »
The True Glory (1945) Garson Kanin, Carol Reed, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Fallon, Robert Harris, Documentary, War
British filmmaker Carol Reed and American playwright Garson Kanin team up to direct the war documentary The True Glory. Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. Read More »
Outcast of the Islands (1951) Carol Reed, Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Drama, Adventure
The Key (1958) Carol Reed, William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Drama, Romance, War
Not well equipped with weaponry, the tugs are sitting ducks for enemy fire. As such, the crew working the tugs have precarious lives, many with deep seated emotional problems. Read More »
Kipps (1941) Carol Reed, Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Philip Frost, Comedy, Drama
Kipps the draper’s apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. Read More »