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Tag Archives: Michael Powell
Hotel Splendide (1932) Michael Powell, Jerry Verno, Anthony Holles, Edgar Norfolk
Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when Read More »
Her Last Affaire (1935) Michael Powell, Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Francis L. Sullivan
The wife of a politician is found dead at a country inn, where she had been Read More »
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina
This a film version of the opera “The Tales of Hoffmann”, however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Read More »
The Fire Raisers (1934) Michael Powell, Leslie Banks, Anne Grey, Carol Goodner
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he’s unhappy with his work Read More »
Peeping Tom (1960) Michael Powell, Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
Mark Lewis, works as a focus puller in a British film studio. On his off hours, he supplies Read More »
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine. Read More »
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney
Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined Read More »
His Lordship (1932) Michael Powell, Jerry Verno, Janet McGrew, Ben Welden
Unknown to his Communist girlfriend, Bert Gibbs the plumber inherited Read More »
Gone to Earth (1950) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves Read More »
The Phantom Light (1935) Michael Powell, Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop
A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing Read More »
Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
Based on the true story of how, during World War II, a gang of desperados Read More »
Honeymoon AKA Luna de miel (1959) Michael Powell, Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina, Antonio
Australian farmer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe Read More »
They’re a Weird Mob (1966) Michael Powell, Walter Chiari, Claire Dunne, Chips Rafferty
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist Read More »
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov Read More »