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The Lost Hours (1952) David MacDonald, Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh
During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. Read More »
Diamond City (1949) David MacDonald, David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors
The story of Diamond City takes place in the South African diamond fields during the latter half of the 19th Century Read More »
It’s Never Too Late to Mend (1937) David MacDonald, Tod Slaughter, Jack Livesey, Marjorie Taylor
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned. Read More »
This England (1941) David MacDonald, Emlyn Williams, John Clements, Constance Cummings
This British- National-Anglo American production reinforces the theme that whoever assails Read More »
Alias John Preston (1955) David MacDonald, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee
Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. Read More »
Good-Time Girl (1948) David MacDonald, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. Read More »
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) David MacDonald, Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Drama
Seriously ill to a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron fantasies of being judged, upon his passing, as a soldier and poet as a seducer and libertine. Read More »
The Brothers (1947) David MacDonald, Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Drama
The MacFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles of Scotland. Read More »
The Moonraker (1958) David MacDonald, George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Spies of the Air (1940) David MacDonald, Barry K. Barnes, Joan Marion, Roger Livesey, Adventure
Snowbound (1948) David MacDonald, Dennis Price, Mila Parély, Stanley Holloway, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis Price head an expedition in search of a fortune of gold, stashed away by the Nazis in the last days of the war. Snowed into an old cabin, the men quickly get on one another’s nerves. Just when tension reaches the boiling point, one of the party saves the day. He happens to be a movie screenwriter, who uses his cinematic knowhow to reach a solution to their dilemma. Snowbound is based on The Lonely Skier, a novel by Hammond Innes.
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