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Wolfgang Wilhelm (1906–1984) was a German-born screenwriter who later settled in Britain. He worked in the German film industry before leaving after the Nazi taking of power in 1933. He worked for a number of Britain's leading film producers.
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The Great Game (1953)
, 1h20Directed by Maurice Elvey
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors James Hayter, Dame Thora Hird, Diana Dors, John Laurie, Meredith Edwards, Jack Lambert
Rating61%
The chairman of a top-flight English football club makes an illegal approach to a rising star of a rival club. This is discovered by the football authorities and the Chairman is ultimately suspended from the game following the ensuing scandal.
Secret People (1952)
, 1h36Directed by Thorold Dickinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani, Charles Goldner, Megs Jenkins, Reginald Tate
Rating61%
In 1930, Maria Brentano (Valentina Cortese) and her younger sister Nora (Audrey Hepburn) flee to London as their father is about to executed by his country's dictator. Seven years later, Maria unexpectedly meets Louis (Serge Reggiani), her childhood sweetheart, who is engaged in a plot to assassinate the dictator. Maria is persuaded to play an active part in the plan, but it all goes horribly wrong when the bomb they plant kills an innocent waitress, causing Maria much distress.
A Kingdom for a Horse (1949)
, 1h36Directed by Jaap Speyer
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Johan Kaart
Roles Writer
Rating61%
The End of the River (1947)
, 1h23Directed by Derek N. Twist
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Sabu, Esmond Knight, Robert Douglas, Zena Marshall, Antoinette Cellier, Torin Thatcher
Roles Writer
Rating60%
Au Brésil, un jeune indien quitte sa jungle natale pour la ville, où il se retrouve accusé de meurtre...
Captain Boycott (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Mervyn Johns, Alastair Sim, Noel Purcell
Roles Writer
Rating63%
During the period of Irish history known as The Land War, Irish tenant farmers were being squeezed dry by absentee English landlords. Some resorted to the gun to achieve justice, but others, inspired by the Irish statesman Charles Stewart Parnell (played in a cameo role by Robert Donat), shunned violence and adopted a form of passive resistance. The farmers are led by Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger), who, with the help of the local priest, Father McKeogh (Alastair Sim), encourages his fellow tenants to ostracize their land agent, the bombastic Captain Boycott (Cecil Parker). There is a love interest in the form of Ann Killain (Kathleen Ryan), whose father is also shunned for taking up a farm from which another farmer had been evicted. The resultant stand-off attracts international news coverage and will ultimately introduce a new word – to boycott – to the English language.
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
, 1h52Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley, Brenda Bruce
Roles Writer
Rating69%
In May 1944, during World War II, when nationalistic Irishwoman Bridie Quilty (Deborah Kerr) turns 21, she sets out to fulfill a lifelong dream engendered by listening to her late father's stories of the Irish Revolution. She leaves her small rural village and goes to Dublin. On the way, she shares a train compartment with J. Miller (Raymond Huntley), but believing him to be English, she is very brusque with him. Once in the city, she seeks out a famous ex-radical her father had supposedly fought alongside, Michael O'Callaghan (Brefni O'Rorke), and asks him to help her join the Irish Republican Army. However, he has mellowed as the situation in Ireland has improved and tries unsuccessfully to dissuade her from her overly romantic notion.
Great Day (1945)
, 1h2Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Marjorie Rhodes, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans, Maire O'Neill
Rating63%
Squadron Leader X (1943)
, 1h39Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Walter Fitzgerald, Martin Miller, Beatrice Varley, Henry Oscar
Roles Writer
Rating70%
Erich Kohler (Portman), a crack Luftwaffe pilot who speaks fluent English, is instructed by his superiors to drop a cargo of bombs on the Belgian city of Ghent and then to bale out of his plane wearing a British RAF uniform, gain the confidence of the local populace and then try to convince them that the British are responsible for the bombing of civilian targets in Belgium. The plan goes awry when he falls into the hands of the Belgian Resistance, who believe they are doing him a favour by arranging for him to be smuggled to Britain among a group of downed RAF pilots who are being returned that night.
Escape to Danger (1943)
, 1h24Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak, Karel Štěpánek, Ronald Ward, Ronald Adam, Felix Aylmer
Roles Writer
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Uncensored (1942)
, 1h48Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Frederick Culley, Raymond Lovell, Peter Glenville
Roles Adaptation
Rating64%
Before the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Brussels nightclub owner André Delange (Portman) used to publish an anti-Nazi newspaper called La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium) which was distributed secretly. In the aftermath of the German occupation, his underground colleagues in the Belgian resistance suggest reviving the newspaper, to which Delange agrees. With the help of his chief assistant Julie Lanvin (Calvert) and a small band of helpers, La Libre Belgique once more begins to circulate. When the Germans find out of its existence, they offer a reward to anyone who is prepared to identify those responsible for its publication.
The Silent Battle (1942)
, 1h13Directed by Herbert Mason
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson, John Loder, Muriel Aked, George Devine, Carl Jaffe
Rating17%
'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
, 2hDirected by Leslie Howard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, French Revolution films
Actors Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Allan Jeayes
Roles Original Story
Rating71%
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard) 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.
The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
, 1h10Directed by Paul L. Stein
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean Gillie, Hugh Sinclair, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans, Wylie Watson, Charles Victor
Roles Writer
Rating57%
Simon "The Saint" Templar finds a dead man on his doorstep. Soon the ace investigator finds himself mired in more murder, smuggling and a South American mine.
Freedom Radio (1941)
, 1h35Directed by Michael Anderson, Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr, Joyce Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford
Roles Writer
Rating64%
An eminent Viennese doctor in Germany becomes increasingly disillusioned with the oppressive brutality of the Nazis. His wife however, is flattered by the attentions of the Führer, and accepts a political post in Berlin. At first the doctor does nothing as his friends "disappear", but eventually, with the aid of an engineer, he creates a secret radio station where he broadcasts condemnations of Hitler and prays for a "better" Germany to arise from the ashes of his ruined country. The birth of "Freedom Radio" sees the creation of an underground group of anti-Nazis who regard Karl as their leader.
A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
, 1h30Directed by William Dieterle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann, Gene Lockhart, Otto Kruger
Roles Story
Rating68%
Paul Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) starts a messenger service using homing pigeons to fill a gap in the telegraph network spanning Europe, but has difficulty convincing anyone to subscribe. When poison is sent to a hospital by mistake, Reuter's message saves the day (and many lives). However, he is persuaded by Ida Magnus (Edna Best), the pretty daughter of Dr. Magnus (Otto Kruger), to keep it quiet, as a scandal would undo all the good work the doctors are doing.