John Longden Movies

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anny Ondra

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Betta St. John

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Brian Donlevy

In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, the Boyle family’s fragile stability collapses after news of an unexpected inheritance lures...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Barry Fitzgerald

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: C. V. France

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Conrad Veidt

A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Longden

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Patrick Barr

'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ben Blue

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jeanne De Casalis

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Morley

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jill Ireland

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

Genre: Action

Cast: Anthony Newley

Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the...

Genre:

Cast: Cecil Kellaway

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Susan Stephen

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hy Hazell

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Niven

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American...

Genre: Romance

Cast: David Niven

Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Warwick

A mystery thriller intended for US TV.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Derrick De Marney

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and...

Genre: Family

Cast: Douglas Barr

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ralph Richardson

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mona Goya

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Flora Robson

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Twelvetrees

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Genre: Music

Cast: Tommy Handley

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

Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

A humble girl's rise to fame.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rène Ray

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Rome

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geoffrey Hibbert

Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rène Ray

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gilda Gray

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bonar Colleano

Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Christine Norden

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Elissa Landi

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norah Baring

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Patric Curwen

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wallace Bosco

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Franklin Dyall

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alma Taylor

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?

Genre: Crime

Cast: Barbara James

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mabel Poulton

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Merle Oberon

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mark Stevens

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by...

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Stanley Baker

Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Niven

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Baker

Betty, a young and pretty widow, is seriously concerned about her young son Jimmy who, since his father's death, has become very difficult for her to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Patricia Driscoll

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alf Goddard

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

This is a film made for Ford dealerships, encouraging them to smarten up their showrooms and organise their sales tactics. Slovenly Mr Sinclair is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ernest Butcher

'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Longden

In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Cobham

Genre: Crime

Cast: Estelle Brody

The biggest wildfire in North American history is brought to life, revealing what it means to us today, when the people of America are still figuring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Sellars

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Westbrook

The crew of a lighthouse rescues people they believe to be survivors of a shipwreck, only to find out that they are a gang of bank robbers on the run...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Albert Lieven

Paddy, an Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family. He joins The Royal Air...

Genre: Music

Cast: John Longden

Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kieron Moore