
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Read More »
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Odd Man Out (1947) Carol Reed, James Mason

The leader of an Irish separatist group’s, been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother Read More »
This Happy Breed (1944) David Lean, Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness

David Lean brings to vivid emotional life Noël Coward’s epic chronicle of a working-class family Read More »
Obsession / The Hidden Room (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown

London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs Read More »
Les Miserables (1952) Lewis Milestone, Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget

After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced Read More »
Long John Silver (1954) Byron Haskin, Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell

After the Treasure Island adventure, Long John Silver turns up on a British Caribbean island Read More »
Temptation Harbour (1947) Lance Comfort, Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell

A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water Read More »
The Desert Rats (1953) Robert Wise, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton

Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk Read More »
Poison Pen (1939) Paul L. Stein, Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters”. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott

A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) Raoul Walsh, Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix

In 1674, “reformed” pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica, but Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Read More »
Tom Browns Schooldays (1951) Gordon Parry, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter

A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys in 1834, when Dr. Thomas Arnold Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks

In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Treasure Island (1950) Byron Haskin, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Adventure, Family

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama

The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »