Edmund Gwenn Movies

Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...

Genre: Family

Cast: Roddy McDowall

As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: James Whitmore

The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead. In a quiet Vermont village, a corpse creates unexpected chaos as several townspeople each believe...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Forsythe

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maureen O'Hara

Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Garfield

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Boris Karloff

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Powell

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Phyllis Thaxter

When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.

Genre: Action

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kent Smith

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Coburn

Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse. Abandoned at a convent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fredric March

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.

Genre: Music

Cast: Ann Blyth

'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Heather Angel

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: C. V. France

In Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. clashes with his domineering father, who wants him to abandon music for a steady job in a bakery....

Genre: History

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

San Francisco businessman Harry Graham and his wife and business partner, Eve, are in the process of adopting a child. When private investigator Mr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Fontaine

When Bonzo turns out to be the answer to the football teams troubles, the only solution is to enroll him into a college.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maureen O'Sullivan

The Skipper is a charming old man loved by all his neighbors. What they don't know is that he is also Mr. 880, an amateurish counterfeiter who has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Burt Lancaster

An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifton Webb

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jessie Matthews

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edna Best

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Loretta Young

Snobby TV star, Robert Jordan, worries that he is out of touch with the younger generation and that's why his TV show is failing. He becomes a Boy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifton Webb

Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: James Craig

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Martha Scott

An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ann Blyth

William McClure is the villlage doctor in a remote Scottish glen. Tricked into buying Lassie, a collie afraid of water, he sets about teaching her to...

Genre: Family

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Montgomery

Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Michael Rennie

A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edmund Lowe

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Henreid

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying outlaws.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joseph Cotten

A bull terrier tells his life story, from the streets of the Bowery to a life of luxury.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Richards

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Morgan

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Marshall

A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Crain

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Allan

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Satirical silent movie based on the play Macbeth written in 1916 by Peter Pan creator and playwright J. M. Barrie as a parody of the American...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Joel McCrea

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Craig

The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon McCallister

A conservationist fights to save the habitat of the California condor and to do it she works her way into the affections of a representative of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Mature

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Genre: Family

Cast: Mickey Rooney

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Joy

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Arthur Wontner

Compassionate small-town lawyer Richard Clarke moves to New York City to seek his fortune, but is unsuccessful until he takes a friend's advice and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sybil Thorndike

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Newcomb

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nancy Kelly

'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Harris

A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A country bumpkin who's a mathematical genius falls into the hands of gangsters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stuart Erwin

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Matheson Lang

Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred MacMurray

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronald Reagan

A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Seymour Hicks

An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jan Kiepura

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Medieval French monks find a freezing, ill juggler and take him in. Upon recovering, the impoverished man wishes to illustrate his tremendous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roddy McDowall

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 windscreen...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jessie Matthews

Two couples with mismatched mates find new romance blooming in the Bavarian countryside.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Documentary on the evolution of Giant Monsters in cinema from the original 1933 King Kong onward.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Agar