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1. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 325
2. They Met at Midnight (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Anna marries Michael before leaving for Singapore. Her ship sinks but she survives on an island. Believing her dead, Michael remarries and has a child. After 3 years Anna returns and learns Michael has moved on.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Michael Laurence, Reginald Owen
Votes: 275
3. Irene (1940)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Sent by her employers on an errand to the home of the wealthy Mrs. Vincent, Irene O'Dare meets Don, a friend of Mrs. Vincent's son Bob. Attracted to Irene, Don decides to invest some money ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Ray Milland, Roland Young, Alan Marshal
Votes: 789
4. Forever and a Day (1943)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, History
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »
Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon
Votes: 800
5. Odette (1950)
105 min | Drama, History, War
During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring, Peter Ustinov
Votes: 1,044
6. Battle Hell (1957)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, History, War
In 1949, during the Chinese Civil War, British warship H.M.S. Amethyst sails up the Yangtse river but on the return trip, finds its way blocked by a barrage of fire from the Communist Chinese shore batteries.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff, Donald Houston
Votes: 786
7. Yellow Canary (1943)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman wrongfully accused of being a Nazi sympathizer is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam, Albert Lieven
Votes: 747
8. Nell Gwyn (1934)
Approved | 85 min | History
King Charles sees actress Nell perform and they become close, as he favors her over the Duchess. Nell serves Charles devotedly though she and the Duchess clash. Despite the King's fondness, as an actress she's barred from the royal circle.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne De Casalis, Muriel George
Votes: 137
9. Dangerous Youth (1957)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Just after a young singer comes out with his first hit record, he is drafted into the Army.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: George Baker, Frankie Vaughan, Carole Lesley, Jocelyn Lane
Votes: 112
10. Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Forrest Tucker, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 266
11. Quartet (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Four of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author. In "The Facts of Life", a young man with great potential on the tennis courts goes ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart | Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Jack Raine
Votes: 987
12. The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History, War
Florence Nightingale struggled to gain access to battlefield hospitals during the Crimean War for her nursing staff. But by succeeding, she improved sanitary medical conditions for wounded soldiers, changing the course of medical history.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 229
13. Trent's Last Case (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum
Votes: 608
14. Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
An English nurse with a great reputation for her work in Belgian hospitals, becomes outraged at the number of Allied soldiers detained in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I, and devises a secret plan to help hundreds escape.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson
Votes: 410
15. Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJack
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Peter Graves, Nicholas Phipps
Votes: 243
16. A Yank in London (1945)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1943 England, an American Army Air Force gunner falls in love with a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who has long been expected to marry a British paratrooper Major, prompting him to go back to combat duty.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison, Dean Jagger, Robert Morley
Votes: 254
17. The Navy Lark (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips, Elvi Hale
Votes: 130
18. No, No, Nanette (1940)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Richard Carlson, Victor Mature, Roland Young
Votes: 231
19. Brewster's Millions (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in ... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Lili Damita, Nancy O'Neil, Sydney Fairbrother
Votes: 85
20. The Rat (1937)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Anton Walbrook, Rene Ray, Beatrix Lehmann
Votes: 86
21. Spring in Park Lane (1948)
100 min | Comedy
A diamond merchant's niece falls for his new footman who is really an impoverished aristocrat.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Tom Walls, Peter Graves
Votes: 285
22. The Beggar's Opera (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, History, Musical
When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge
Votes: 395
23. Victoria the Great (1937)
112 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of an 18-year-old princess who becomes Queen of England. It chronicles six decades of her reign during a period of immense change and her marriage to a prince who would become her treasured source of stability and affection.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner
Votes: 277
24. The Volunteer (1944)
45 min | War
After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Pat McGrath, Anna Neagle, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 236
25. Teenage Bad Girl (1956)
100 min | Crime, Drama
Poor Valerie just can't seem to straighten out her delinquent teenage daughter Janet, whose sleazy boyfriend is leading her down a rebellious path of crime and moral turpitude that could ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Sylvia Syms, Norman Wooland, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 143
26. The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A barrister (Anna Neagle) tries to defend her client, a U.S. scientist (Anthony Quayle), for killing his bride (Zsa Zsa Gabor), a U.S. spy.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anthony Quayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath
Votes: 226
27. Let's Make Up (1954)
72 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Errol Flynn, Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 197
28. Sunny (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Musical, Romance
The beautiful Anna Neagle stars as a circus performer who falls in love with a rich car dealer's son, against her family's wishes. Features some spirited dance numbers with Ray Bolger.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 241
29. Laughing Anne (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Adventure
Based on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner
Votes: 81
30. The Heart of a Man (1959)
92 min | Drama
Frankie, an out-of-work sailor, meets Bud, a tramp who claims he is a millionaire. Bud gives him a shilling and promises him that if he can make £100 from it, he will be given £1,000. Armed... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood, Tony Britton, Peter Sinclair
Votes: 35
31. Sorrell and Son (1933)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: H.B. Warner, Margot Grahame, Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams
Votes: 12
32. Queen of Destiny (1938)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel to the 1937 film has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C. Aubrey Smith, Walter Rilla
Votes: 114
33. Escape Me Never (1935)
95 min | Drama
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Leon Quartermaine
Votes: 169
34. Nell Gwyn (1926)
80 min | Biography, Drama, History
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a servicemen's home.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton, Sydney Fairbrother
Votes: 266
35. The Return of the Frog (1938)
73 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scotland Yard has thrown around him.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Gordon Harker, Hartley Power, Rene Ray, Cyril Smith
Votes: 68
36. Katy's Love Affair (1947)
Unrated | 112 min | Drama
The fortunes of an upper-class British family are followed through three wars and four generations.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young, Daphne Slater
Votes: 209
37. The Speckled Band (1931)
Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Lyn Harding, Raymond Massey, Angela Baddeley, Nancy Price
Votes: 311
38. King's Rhapsody (1955)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Richard, son of the King of Laurentia, who has been living in Monte Carlo with Martha Karrillos for several years because his parents refused to accept this unroyal affair, is called to ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Martita Hunt
Votes: 148
39. Derby Day (1952)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The stories of four sets of characters intersect via chance-encounters at Epsom Downs racecourse on the morning of Derby Day.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, John McCallum
Votes: 226
40. Peg of Old Drury (1935)
75 min | Drama, History, Romance
Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Margaretta Scott, Maire O'Neill, Dorothy Robinson
Votes: 72
41. Magic Night (1932)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In Vienna just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Captain Maximilian Scheltoff falls in love with poor flower-shop girl Viki. Unfortunately, his father, General Scheltoff, has arranged ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle, Gina Malo, Clive Currie
Votes: 32
42. Wings and the Woman (1942)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, 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. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Nora Swinburne
Votes: 249
43. Just My Luck (1933)
77 min | Comedy
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Davy Burnaby, Robertson Hare
44. Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Betty Blythe, Herbert Langley, Randle Ayrton, Eva Moore
Votes: 28
45. Man in the Dinghy (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
A mysterious stowaway opens the door to adventure for two unsuspecting holidaymakers.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Michael Wilding, Odile Versois, Jack Hulbert, Constance Cummings
Votes: 56
46. Tiptoes (1927)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Dorothy Gish, Will Rogers, Jack Cardiff, Ivy Ellison
Votes: 22
47. Easy Money (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An anthology of four short stories centered around the topic of honestly--or dishonestly--winning the pools in postwar Britain.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Jack Warner, Marjorie Fielding, Yvonne Owen, Jack Watling
Votes: 217
48. Torpedoed (1937)
66 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Robert Douglas, Richard Cromwell, Hazel Terry, H.B. Warner
Votes: 48
49. The Frog (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Police Captain Gordon and Sergeant Elk set out to put an end to the activities of a criminal mastermind who calls himself The Frog. They encounter blackmail, murder, arson and robbery along... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins, Richard Ainley, Vivian Gaye
Votes: 39
50. Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Musical
A British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses, he finds himself ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, James Carew, Olive Blakeney
Votes: 12