Henry Hewitt

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• Movie7.4

  FantasyDrama

  Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

  Scrooge

  1951 · 382 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

  London Belongs to Me

  1948 · 15 votes

• Movie7.6

  ComedyWar

  Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

  Sailors Three

  1940 · 5 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

• Movie6.7

  Thriller

  A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.

  Emergency Call

  1952 · 7 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaWar

  When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassigned as a foreign correspondent in Norway. En route, his ship is attacked by a German U-boat, but his warning to the Royal Navy is dismissed and he loses his post. With the German invasion of Norway soon after, Metcalfe returns, determined to uncover enemy operations and strike back against the occupiers.

  The Day Will Dawn

  1942 · 6 votes

• Movie6.8

  DramaHistory

  A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.

  Rembrandt

  1936 · 38 votes

• Movie5.4

  Comedy

  Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.

  Isn't Life Wonderful!

  1953 · 7 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...

  The Naked Truth

  1957 · 32 votes

• Movie6.1

  RomanceComedy

  Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe visiting Edinburgh wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting financiers. Bruno meets several leading ladies; through a misunderstanding, he doesn't correct their impression that he's a newspaper reporter.

  Happy Go Lovely

  1951 · 12 votes

• Movie7.0

  ThrillerDrama

  A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.

  Now and Forever

  1956 · 5 votes

• Movie8.2

  Comedy

  A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

  The Black Sheep of Whitehall

  1942 · 6 votes

• Movie6.9

  Comedy

  Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).

  Give Us the Moon

  1944 · 4 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

  Brothers in Law

  1957 · 10 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

  Top Secret

  1952 · 2 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaComedy

  A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

  Train of Events

  1949 · 13 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.

  The School for Scandal

  1930 · 1 votes

• Movie

  Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.

  Old Iron

  1938

• Movie8.0

  RomanceHistory

  During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.

  Madame Guillotine

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie10.0

  Crime

  British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell

  Betrayal

  1932 · 1 votes

• Movie5.2

  FantasyComedy

  A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

  Meet Mr. Lucifer

  1953 · 17 votes

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer

  Admirals All

  1935 · 1 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaMystery

  A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

  The High Command

  1937 · 10 votes

• Movie7.0

  'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)

  The First Mrs Fraser

  1932 · 1 votes