The Londonderry Air is a 1938 British romance film directed by Alex Bryce and starring Sara Allgood, Liam Gaffney and Phyllis Ryan. A young woman abandons her plans to settle down in a respectable marriage and runs off with a travelling fiddler she falls in love with. It was based on a play by Rachel Field.
, 1h32 Directed byRobert Stevenson OriginUSA GenresDrama, Romance ThemesFilms about children, Children's films ActorsOrson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Sara Allgood, Henry Daniell Rating74% Orphaned, unloved, and unwanted ten-year-old Jane Eyre (Peggy Ann Garner) lives with her cruel and selfish, uncaring paternal aunt, Mrs. Reed (Agnes Moorehead) of Gateshead Hall. Jane is ecstatic when Mrs. Reed, eager to be rid of the child, arranges for Jane to be sent to Lowood Institution, a charity boarding school for young girls, run by the disciplinarian Reverend Brocklehurst (Henry Daniell).
, 1h20 Directed byRobert Siodmak OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance ThemesFilms based on plays ActorsGeorge Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines, Sara Allgood, Moyna MacGill, Samuel S. Hinds Rating66% Harry Quincy (Sanders) is an amiable middle-aged man working as a designer in a fabric mill in the small town of Corinth. Younger people in the factory call him "Uncle Harry". He lives as a bachelor in a large house with his two sisters; Lettie (Fitzgerald) and Hester (MacGill). Lettie is pretty but spoiled, and idles days away in bed, feigning numerous ailments. Hester is a widow and is harder working. It is made clear that although the family was rich, the money was lost in the Depression.
Unable to bear the teasing of his colleagues, hunchbacked musician Peter Wallace leaves for the country. He falls in love with and marries blind girl Helen Raymond, who has a beautiful voice. They have a baby and Helen regains her sight at the north of her child. Once she realises Peter is a hunchback she goes temporarily insane and leaves him, abandoning her daughter at old Matha's with a violin, and taking refuge at a convent. When Helen gets better she leaves the convent and becomes an opera singer.
Directed byRalph Ince OriginUnited-kingdom GenresCrime ActorsEsmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, George Merritt, Sara Allgood, Raymond Lovell Rating62% The Merrick gang pull off a diamond robbery and murder a police officer investigating their crimes. A paper with the cryptic writing "AD 1935" is found on the murdered officer's body. Outsmarted by the gang, the police assistant commissioner and Inspector Cardby decide to have Pete Borden, a new recruit who the gang would not know, go undercover and join the gang.