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The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine. Read More »
The Go-Between (1971) Joseph Losey, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton
Summer 1900: Queen Victoria’s last and the summer Leo turns 13. Read More »
7 Women (1966) John Ford, Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton
In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. Read More »
The Holly and the Ivy (1952) George More O’Ferrall, Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Read More »
The Sound and the Fury (1959) Martin Ritt, Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Drama
Loosely based on the William Faulkner novel, this movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Read More »
The Teckman Mystery (1954) Wendy Toye, Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver, Mystery
A biographer researching a book on a pilot who died during the test flight of a new plane falls in love with the pilot’s sister. Read More »
Home at Seven (1952) Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered. Read More »
Carrington V.C. (1954) Anthony Asquith, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Drama, War
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven), is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe, he also face two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. Read More »
Calling Bulldog Drummond (1951) Victor Saville, Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, Crime, Mystery
All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property (and simultaneously liquidate some “frozen funds”) with the British-filmed Calling Bulldog Drummond. Walter Pidgeon stars as novelist Sapper’s soldier-of-fortune, here retooled as a respectable retired military officer. Summoned to London by Scotland Yard, Drummond is assigned to break up a dangerous criminal gang. He is aided by female undercover officer Helen Smith (Margaret Leighton), who turns out to be not much help at all. Trapped in a bombed-out building and surrounded by hulking henchmen, Drummond seems to have run out of luck. Some of the film’s brightest moments are provided by David Tomlinson as a traditional “silly ass” type who is lot smarter than he seems. Bernard Lee, the future “M” in the James Bond films of the 1960s, appears as a secondary villain.
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Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) John Guillermin, Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, Margaret Leighton, Comedy
This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do…
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