The film is made from three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham. The first, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” concerns the trials Read More »
Tag Archives: Harold French
English Without Tears (1944) Harold French, Michael Wilding, Margaret Rutherford, Penelope Dudley-Ward
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial Read More »
The Dancing Years (1950) Harold French, Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days Read More »
Forbidden Cargo (1954) Harold French, Jack Warner, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars
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Mr. Emmanuel (1944) Harold French, Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla
An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what’s really going on. Read More »
When London Sleeps (1932) Leslie S. Hiscott, Harold French, Francis L. Sullivan, Alexander Field
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti’s Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. Read More »
The Day Will Dawn AKA The Avengers (1942) Harold French, Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr
Horse race tipster and journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. Read More »
The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955) Harold French, Moira Shearer, John Justin, Roland Culver
The honourable Mark St. Neots is playing with some ‘chums’ when he meets and is bowled over by Sylvia. Read More »
Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue (1953) Harold French, Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures Read More »
Trio (1950) Ken Annakin, Harold French, James Hayter, Kathleen Harrison, Felix Aylmer
Three short stories are introduced by author W. Somerset Maugham in the second of his anthology film trilogy. Read More »
The Hour of 13 (1952) Harold French, Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Nicholas Revel (Peter Lawford) is a young man any dowager in London welcomes to her parties. Read More »
Major Barbara (1941) Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Comedy
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father’s business.
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Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939) Harold French, Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, Peter Gawthorne, Crime, Drama
A down-and-out writer being hounded by collectors stumbles upon dead man lying under a fallen tree limb. Little did he know the man had been murdered, and he concocts a scheme of exchanging clothes and identifications in hopes of making a clean slate of things. Coincidental happenings lead the police to his new alias. A secret diary and a murder weapon hold the truth to his innocence while Scotland Yard is now the hound on his trail. The true killers are eventually exposed to him and his sweetheart. Then the truth is exposed. A somewhat frustrating story as the viewer watches errors in judgement from all angles. But a good ending for all except the murderers.
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) Harold French, Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Marius Goring, Crime, Drama
Meek head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with a Parisian girl, Michelle. After a confrontation between the two men, De Koster ends up dead and Popinga makes off to Paris with the remaining money. There he contacts Michelle, with the police in close pursuit.
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