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Tag Archives: Charles Frend
Johnny Frenchman (1945) Charles Frend, Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc
There is always rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fishermen, but the two factions have a routine ebb Read More »
The Foreman Went to France (1942) Charles Frend, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman Read More »
San Demetrio London (1943) Charles Frend, Robert Hamer, Arthur Young, Walter Fitzgerald, Ralph Michael
The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Read More »
Lease of Life (1954) Charles Frend, Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Denholm Elliott
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider Read More »
The Cruel Sea (1953) Charles Frend, Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, John Stratton
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose Read More »
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend, John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man Read More »
The Big Blockade (1942) Charles Frend, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. Read More »
The Magnet (1950) Charles Frend, Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox
A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy Read More »
The Long Arm (1956) Charles Frend, Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Someone has broken into the safe of a London company, and yet no force or explosive was used Read More »
Barnacle Bill (1957) Charles Frend, Alec Guinness, Harry Locke, Frederick Piper
Captain Ambrose comes from a long line of distinguished sailors…but is all too susceptible to seasickness. Read More »
The Sky Bike (1967) Charles Frend, Liam Redmond, William Lucas, Ellen McIntosh, Adventure, Family
In The Sky Bike, Tom (Spencer Shires) spends his school holidays dreaming of becoming a pilot. Read More »
Beta Som / Torpedo Bay (1963) Charles Frend, Bruno Vailati, Lilli Palmer, James Mason, Gabriele Ferzetti, War, Drama
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). Read More »
The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) Charles Frend, Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Drama
The story of a woman who loved three men for their different ways and discovered after many a heartache, that her first love was also her true love. Edward the Peacemaker was on the throne of England when Joanna Godden’s father died and bequeathed a large farm on the Romney Marsh of Kent. Beautiful, impetuous, self-willed, Joanna determined to defy convention and – a mere woman – run the farm herself. Her decision outraged the whole shire – not least her farmer neighbour Arthur Alce.
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