W.E. Holloway

Movies12

• Movie6.6

  RomanceHistory

  Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

  Saraband for Dead Lovers

  1948 · 23 votes

• Movie6.2

  DramaHistory

  In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.

  The Young Mr. Pitt

  1942 · 9 votes

• Movie7.0

  MusicDrama

  Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

  Trottie True

  1949 · 3 votes

• Movie7.1

  Drama

  London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.

  Mandy

  1952 · 35 votes

• Movie6.6

  AdventureDrama

  In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

  Elephant Boy

  1937 · 21 votes

• Movie5.7

  Drama

  Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

  The Mill on the Floss

  1937 · 3 votes

• Movie10.0

  DramaCrime

  The River House Mystery

  1936 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  A young couple get involved with a smuggler

  Brandy for the Parson

  1952 · 8 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where the husband fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.

  Due mogli sono troppe

  Honeymoon Deferred

  1951 · 4 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

  Pastor Hall

  1940 · 10 votes

• Movie9.0

  DramaFantasy

  Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

  A Christmas Carol

  1950 · 1 votes

• Movie9.0

  Drama

  Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.

  John Halifax

  1938 · 1 votes