
Arthur Hambling
Actor · 1888 – 1952 · Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Movies24
Movie6.7HistoryDramaIn 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France
Henry V
1944 · 136 votes
Movie7.2ComedyCrimeA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951 · 298 votes
Movie7.3CrimeDramaBelfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Odd Man Out
1947 · 233 votes
Movie7.1AdventureDramaEccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
"Pimpernel" Smith
1941 · 32 votes
Movie6.0MysteryA young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
A Night in Montmartre
1931 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeDuring a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947 · 74 votes
Movie6.4DramaCrimeSent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Good-Time Girl
1948 · 16 votes
Movie6.7DramaThrillerThe love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
Cage of Gold
1950 · 14 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerDramaIn Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Daughter of Darkness
1948 · 12 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerMysteryAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Cottage to Let
1941 · 23 votes
Movie6.3DramaThrillerWar hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
My Brother's Keeper
1948 · 10 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerMysteryThe Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
The Four Just Men
1939 · 6 votes
Movie7.0MusicDramaTottie 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
Movie5.3ThrillerWhen a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Time Bomb
1953 · 22 votes
Movie7.7ComedyRomanceElderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Don't Ever Leave Me
1949 · 3 votes
Movie6.8DramaThe story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire 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.
They Flew Alone
1942 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaHistoryThe story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Don't Take It to Heart
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.5AdventureCrimeA man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
The House of the Spaniard
1936 · 4 votes
Movie6.1AdventureComedyKicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
It's Not Cricket
1949 · 4 votes
Movie6.5ComedyGeorge Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
I See Ice
1938 · 7 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDemobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
Demobbed
1944 · 2 votes
Movie6.1MysteryAn actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Death at Broadcasting House
1934 · 14 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMusicGutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Look Up and Laugh
1935 · 3 votes
Series1
- TVDrama
Gentle clergyman Septimus Harding's comfortable life as warden of a charity is upended by a public scandal over his income, a controversy fueled by a young reformer, John Bold, who is also in love with Harding's daughter, Eleanor.
The Warden
1951