The story of four people directly and indirectly involved with the murder of a female blackmailer. Read More »
Tag Archives: Valerie Hobson
The Small Voice (1948) Fergus McDonell, Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
The British writer Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor stop to help two men Read More »
Rendezvous at Midnight (1935) Christy Cabanne, Ralph Bellamy, Valerie Hobson, Catherine Doucet
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead Read More »
The Interrupted Journey (1949) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train Read More »
Sons Of The Sea AKA Atlantic Ferry (1941) Walter Forde, Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones
In 1840 two rival steamship companies race to see who should have the best cargo between England and America. Read More »
Lovers, Happy Lovers! AKA Monsieur Ripois (1954) René Clément, Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer Read More »
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Read More »
This Man Is News (1938) David MacDonald, Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim
David Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial Read More »
Who Goes There! (1952) Anthony Kimmins, Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson, Peggy Cummins
“Five-Sided Triangle”, while geometrically incorrect, might be a better title for this film that the two it has. Read More »
Contraband (1940) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control Read More »
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) Anthony Pelissier, Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, Drama, Fantasy
In London, the young Paul Grahame lives with his upper class but financially broken family. Read More »
Background (1953) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Drama
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. Read More »
Great Expectations (1946) David Lean, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife ‘Mrs. Joe’. Read More »
The Adventures of Tartu (1943) Harold S. Bucquet, Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Stevenson, a British soldier fluent in Rumanian and German, goes undercover to sabotage a German poison-gas factory. Read More »
Q Planes / Clouds Over Europe (1939) Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. Read More »