The British writer Murray Byrne and his wife Eleanor stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run. Read More »
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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 »
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 »
The Interrupted Journey (1949) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd, Christine Norden, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife 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 »
The Great Impersonation (1935) Alan Crosland, Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels, Drama
Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey at the vast Dominey Hall, where strange things are afoot in pre-WW1 England. Read More »
Sons Of The Sea (1941) Walter Forde, Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Drama, History, Romance
In 1840 two rival steamship companies race to see who should have the best cargo between England and America. Two brothers are involved, one on each ship.
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This Man Is News (1938) David MacDonald, Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
David Kier, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when the turns King’s Evidence on the other members. Read More »
The Spy in Black / L’Espion Noir (1939) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Thriller, War
Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German submarine commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow. He puts ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact but finds more than he bargained for in the local schoolmistress (Valerie Hobson).
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer
Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D’Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next Duke of the family. Murdering every potential successor is clearly the safest way to achieve his goal…
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