Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change Read More »
Tag Archives: Anna Lee
Young Man’s Fancy (1939) Robert Stevenson, Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks
An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. Read More »
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) John Farrow, Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Erik Toresen, widower and fishery observer, leads a quiet life in a small Norwegian town Read More »
Prison Warden (1949) Seymour Friedman, Warner Baxter, Anna Lee, Harlan Warde
Victor Burnell (Warner Baxter) is a public health official who is appointed warden Read More »
How Green Was My Valley (1941) John Ford, Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara, Anna Lee
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
Summer Storm (1944) Douglas Sirk, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor Read More »
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936) Robert Stevenson, Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. Read More »
Return to Yesterday (1940) Robert Stevenson, Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty
Wartime dilema: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. Read More »
Best Man Wins (1948) John Sturges, Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee, Robert Shayne, Drama
Edgar Buchanan stars as a man who abruptly leaves his wife (Anna Lee) to “find himself”. Read More »
Gideon of Scotland Yard / Gideon’s Day (1958) John Ford, Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Action, Comedy, Drama
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. Read More »
O.H.M.S. / Youre in the Army Now (1937) Raoul Walsh, Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Action, Comedy, Drama
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Read More »
My Life with Caroline (1941) Lewis Milestone, Ronald Colman, Anna Lee, Charles Winninger, Comedy
Caroline Mason, on vacation with her father Mr. Bliss in Idaho, has fallen in love with gaucho Paco Del Valle, the two who plan to get married. Read More »
Hangmen Also Die! (1943) Fritz Lang, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
On May 27, 1942 the Nazi Reichsprotector of Bohemia/Moravia, the “Hangman” Reinhard Heydrich, died from the bullets of unidentified resistance fighters. Hangmen Also Die is the story of Heydrich’s assassination in fictionalized form. It was Bertolt Brecht’s only comparatively successful Hollywood project; the money he received allowed him to write “The Visions of Simone Marchand”, “Schwyk in the Second World War” and his adaptation of Webster’s “The Duchess of Malfi”. Hanns Eisler won an Academy Award for his musical score.
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