Matthew Boulton
Actor · 1893 – 1962 · Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Matthew Boulton (20 January 1893 – 10 February 1962) was a British stage and film actor. He was a character actor, who often played police officers and military officers. Having established himself in the theatre, he began taking supporting roles in films including an appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's Sabotage. He subsequently emigrated to Hollywood where he worked for the remainder of his career. His films in America include The Woman in Green (1945) and The Woman in White (1948).
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Movie7.3MysteryThrillerRichard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
The 39 Steps
1935 · 1.1K votes
Movie7.0DramaFantasyMiser 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
1938 · 155 votes
Movie6.3HorrorScience FictionThe owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · 145 votes
Movie6.5MysteryCrimeSherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
The Woman in Green
1945 · 159 votes
Movie7.2DramaFamilyMi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse.
National Velvet
1945 · 127 votes
Movie6.0ActionAdventureA high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.
Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948 · 66 votes
Movie7.5ComedyIn 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
1944 · 4 votes
Movie6.9CrimeMysteryStephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
Ministry of Fear
1944 · 207 votes
Movie6.7DramaWarAmerican Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944 · 23 votes
Movie7.2AdventureRomanceA jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
They Met in Bombay
1941 · 20 votes
Movie7.2RomanceAdventureSir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942 · 19 votes
Movie6.0MysteryAdventureCaptain Drummond is travelling to Switzerland to marry his girlfriend. However, when a cargo containing dangerous explosives goes missing from its place, Drummond is forced to delay his plans.
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge
1937 · 13 votes
Movie6.7DramaThrillerKarl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Sabotage
1936 · 384 votes
Movie6.3CrimeThrillerThe big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.
The Racket
1951 · 43 votes
Movie6.3DramaA behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · 7 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeWhen Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Ivy
1947 · 28 votes
Movie5.9DramaThrillerA British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
The Man in Half Moon Street
1945 · 5 votes
Movie5.8ActionAdventureDrummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
Bulldog Drummond in Africa
1938 · 13 votes
Movie7.1FamilyDramaWhen Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.
The Secret Garden
1949 · 34 votes
Movie7.3ComedyRomanceBallet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Shall We Dance
1937 · 124 votes
Movie6.4DramaThrillerA jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
Rage in Heaven
1941 · 23 votes
Movie4.9CrimeHorrorThe son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951 · 12 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerTwo newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
Above Suspicion
1943 · 39 votes
Movie5.7MysteryThrillerA young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.
The Woman in White
1948 · 22 votes