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51. The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy
A compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.
Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 353
52. Sally and Saint Anne (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
Sally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 144
53. Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road.... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked, Cyril Smith
Votes: 401
54. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
G | 76 min | Drama, Family
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen
Votes: 669
55. Pretty Baby (1950)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy
A working girl rises in an ad agency after impressing a baby-food client with her lifelike dolls.
Director: Bretaigne Windust | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 428
56. Java Head (1934)
68 min | Drama, Romance
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Anna May Wong, Elizabeth Allan, John Loder, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 140
57. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 832
58. A Yank at Eton (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Family
During World War II, an American boy named Timothy Dennis is unwillingly sent to Eton College in the UK where he is frequently confused by the many differences between the two cultures.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter, Freddie Bartholomew
Votes: 470
59. Laburnum Grove (1936)
65 min | Comedy
In Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper, Ethel Coleridge
Votes: 129
60. Thunder in the Valley (1947)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A story of the Scottish highlands about a crockerty old sheepherder, Adam MacAdam (Edmund Gwenn),who loves his prize collie dog, but little else, not even his son Davis (Lon McAllister). ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 56
61. She Went to the Races (1945)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy
Scientists have developed a method for winning at the track. Lovely Ava is a horse owner interest to a desperate gambler.
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 310
62. The Good Companions (1933)
95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Musical taken from J. B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Mary Glynne
Votes: 239
63. Mad Men of Europe (1940)
73 min | Drama, War
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire, Paul Henreid, Geoffrey Toone
Votes: 15
64. I Was a Spy (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Madeleine Carroll, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 228
65. One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
A Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke
Votes: 107
66. Scotland Yard (1941)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Henry Wilcoxon
Votes: 68
67. The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Silky has always moved booze. During prohibition, he smuggled it from Canada, but now that it is legal, he produces his own brand. Seven years before, he sent Doc to prison because Doc was ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Thorpe, Victor Saville | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 409
68. Something for the Birds (1952)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Enviromentalist Anne Richards goes to Washington D. C. to fight for getting legislation passed to save the last remaining sanctuary of the almost-extinct California Condor. She enlists the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Victor Mature, Patricia Neal, Edmund Gwenn, Larry Keating
Votes: 233
69. Theatre Parade (1936–1938)
Scenes taken from popular London theatrical productions.
Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Antoinette Cellier, Greer Garson, John Wyse
Votes: 14
70. Mad Holiday (1936)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Philip Trent is tired of playing film detective Shelby James, thinking that the stories are tripe, and plans a vacation to get away from Hollywood. But on the ship he meets a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Elissa Landi, Zasu Pitts, Ted Healy
Votes: 225
71. For Love or Money (1933)
73 min | Comedy
A schemer and his daughter have lived the high life, but they are out of cash. A last-ditch plan to lure investors goes awry when the electric company shows up to turn off the lights. But the new employee brings hope and something more.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Wendy Barrie, Robert Donat, Morris Harvey
Votes: 102
72. The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Eddie Cantor, Keith Richards, Mona Freeman, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 42
73. Channel Crossing (1933)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: Matheson Lang, Constance Cummings, Anthony Bushell, Dorothy Dickson
Votes: 85
74. The Frank Sinatra Show (1950–1952)
60 min | Music
The Frank Sinatra Show (also known as Bulova Watch Time) was an American musical variety series hosted by Frank Sinatra from 1950 to 1952.
Stars: Frank Sinatra, June Hutton, Ben Blue, The Whippoorwills
Votes: 45
75. Penny Paradise (1938)
72 min | Comedy, Musical
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver, Jimmy O'Dea, Ethel Coleridge
Votes: 239
76. The Bishop Misbehaves (1935)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Reginald Owen
Votes: 325
77. The Real Thing at Last (1916)
Short, Comedy
A satire on American films, in which Shakespeare's Macbeth is performed as it might be imagined performed in an American film. (The film was prepared as part of a live benefit for the YMCA ... See full summary »
Director: L.C. MacBean | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Nelson Keys, Godfrey Tearle, Owen Nares
Votes: 9
78. Love on Wheels (1932)
86 min | Musical
A shy shop assistant tries to romance a pianist he always sees on the morning bus to work.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Leonora Corbett, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 59
79. Hindle Wakes (1931)
79 min | Drama
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 86
80. Be Mine Tonight (1932)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Sonnie Hale, Magda Schneider, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 21
81. Early to Bed (1933)
83 min | Musical
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They meet by chance, not knowing who's who, and fall in love.
Director: Ludwig Berger | Stars: Heather Angel, Fernand Gravey, Edmund Gwenn, Sonnie Hale
Votes: 13
82. Warn London (1934)
68 min | Drama
A German criminologist working for the Paric Police is bilked out of his life savings, and latterly joins up with a career burglar to pull off one big moneymaking heist in London. The case ... See full summary »
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Leonora Corbett, D.A. Clarke-Smith
83. The Skin Game (1921)
105 min | Drama
A rich woman thwarts a pottery manufacturer's plans by exposing his daughter-in-law's past.
Director: B.E. Doxat-Pratt | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Mary Clare, Helen Haye, Dawson Millward
Votes: 8
84. Unmarried (1920)
Drama
A squire's daughter weds a landlord who later falls for her grown-up bastard daughter.
Director: Rex Wilson | Stars: Gerald du Maurier, Malvina Longfellow, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Glynne
85. All American Chump (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Carnival promoters and gangsters back a math genius rube in a big money bridge tournament.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Robert Armstrong, Betty Furness, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 61
86. Money for Nothing (1932)
72 min | Comedy
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Betty Stockfeld, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Calthrop
87. Frail Women (1932)
72 min | Drama
Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Margaret Vines, Frederick Peisley, Jane Welsh, Athole Stewart
Votes: 52
88. How He Lied to Her Husband (1931)
33 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Cecil Lewis | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Vera Lennox, Robert Harris
89. The Admiral's Secret (1934)
63 min | Comedy
1934. Comedy. Directed by Guy Newall and starring Edmund Gwenn, James Raglan and Hope Davy. A retired admiral who has a valuable diamond is pursued by crooks intent on getting the gem.
Director: Guy Newall | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Aubrey Mather, James Raglan, Edgar Driver
Votes: 48
90. Happy Family (1939)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A typical English family sit down to eat, and discuss the prospect of war.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, John Mills, Frank Lawton, Eva Moore
91. Passing Shadows (1934)
67 min | Mystery
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Barry MacKay, Aileen Marson, D.A. Clarke-Smith
Votes: 15
92. Thank You, Mr. Pepys (1938 TV Movie)
40 min | Biography
Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Douglas Matthews, Henry Oscar, W.P. Lipscomb
93. Condemned to Death (1932)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Sentenced to death, a murderer uses hypnotism skills to make a judge go out and kill the people who had accused him of the crime.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Gillian Lind, Gordon Harker, Cyril Raymond
Votes: 22
94. Spring in the Air (1934)
74 min
Directors: Victor Hanbury, Norman Lee | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Zelma O'Neal, Theo Shall, Lydia Sherwood
95. Father and Son (1934)
48 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, James Finlayson, Roland Culver
96. The Greatest Gift (1942)
Passed | 11 min | Short, Drama
Medieval French legend tells of monks who devote the cold nights of winter to making gifts they offer to Our Lady when spring comes. On the night snowfall blocks the pass to Italy, the ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Hans Conried, Lumsden Hare, Robert Emmett O'Connor
Votes: 121
97. Smithy (1933)
53 min | Comedy, Drama
A staid stockbroker decides to break out of his boring, monotonous life by treating himself to one wild night.
Director: George King | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Peggy Novak, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Eve Gray
98. Marooned (1933)
67 min | Drama
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Viola Lyel, Iris March, Victor Garland
99.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Father and Son
(1957)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
London, 1912. Shop owner Joe Saunders refuses to lend money to his son Sam, who is anxious to win over a cheap showgirl.
Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Davis, Frederick Worlock
Votes: 565
100.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
Come On, Red
(1954)
30 min | Drama
While reading Faust, a man falls asleep and dreams he makes a pact with the devil.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Edward Earle, Sam Flint, Jay C. Flippen, Edmund Gwenn