In 1840 two rival steamship companies race to see who should have the best cargo between England and America. Read More »
Tag Archives: Valerie Hobson
Lovers, Happy Lovers! / Monsieur Ripois (1954) René Clément, Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer Read More »
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Robert Hamer, Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
Louis Mazzini’s mother belongs to the aristocratic family D’Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Read More »
Who Goes There! (1952) Anthony Kimmins, Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson, Peggy Cummins
“Five-Sided Triangle”, while geometrically incorrect, might be a better title for this film that the two it has. Read More »
Contraband (1940) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control Read More »
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) Anthony Pelissier, Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, Drama, Fantasy
In London, the young Paul Grahame lives with his upper class but financially broken family. Read More »
Background (1953) Daniel Birt, Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Drama
In post-war London, upper-middle class barrister John Lomax and his wife Barbie decide after several years of constant bickering to divorce. Read More »
Great Expectations (1946) David Lean, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife ‘Mrs. Joe’. Read More »
Q Planes / Clouds Over Europe (1939) Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Experimental aircraft of several countries are mysteriously vanishing during test flights over the sea. Read More »
The Spy in Black / L’Espion Noir (1939) Michael Powell, Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Thriller, War
Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German submarine commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow. He puts ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact but finds more than he bargained for in the local schoolmistress (Valerie Hobson).
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