Selected filmography

• There Ain't No Justice
  There Ain't No Justice
  There Ain't No Justice is a 1939 British black-and-white film based on the novel of the same name by James Curtis.-Plot summary:Tommy Mutch is a garage mechanic and small time boxer. With his family in financial difficulty he needs to find money in a hurry. As luck would have it he meets boxing...
  
  (1939)
• Convoy
  Convoy (1940 film)
  - Plot summary :A Royal Navy cruiser returns to base to find all leave has been cancelled and they are to start out straight away for a special mission. They are sent to meet a convoy and escort them safely into English coastal waters...
  
  (1940)
• George and Margaret (1940)
• The Big Blockade
  The Big Blockade
  The Big Blockade is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy-drama, propaganda film, war film, directed by Charles Frend and starring Will Hay, Ronald Shiner as the Shipping Clerk and John Mills. It was produced by Ealing Studios...
  
  (1942)
• The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  The Black Sheep of Whitehall
  The Black Sheep of Whitehall is a 1942 British, black-and-white, comedy, war film, directed by Will Hay and Basil Dearden, and; starring Will Hay as Professor Will Davis, John Mills and Basil Sydney...
  
  (1942)
• The Day Will Dawn
  The Day Will Dawn
  The Day Will Dawn, released in the U.S. as The Avengers, is a 1942 war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a script written by Anatole de Grunwald, Patrick Kirwan and Terence...
  
  (1942)
• Flying Fortress (1942)
• The Foreman Went to France
  The Foreman Went to France
  The Foreman Went to France, also known as Somewhere in France, is a 1942 British World War II war film starring Clifford Evans, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings and Gordon Jackson...
  
  (1942)
• The Goose Steps Out
  The Goose Steps Out
  The Goose Steps Out is a British comedy film released in 1942. This film starred, and was co-directed by, the British comedian Will Hay.The film's title refers to the Nazis' vigorous ceremonial marching, called "goose-stepping".-Plot summary:...
  
  (1942)
• In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve
  In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and Noël Coward. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information ....
  
  (1942)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David...
  
  (1943)
• The Flemish Farm
  The Flemish Farm (film)
  The Flemish Farm is a 1943 British war film, based on an actual war-time incident. Released during the war, and used as a propaganda tool to support the allied war effort, the film begins with the caption:...
  
  (1943)
• Millions Like Us
  Millions Like Us
  Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder...
  
  (1943)
• The Demi-Paradise
  The Demi-Paradise
  The Demi-Paradise is a 1943 comedy film made by Two Cities Films and distributed in the U.S. by Universal Pictures. It starred Laurence Olivier as a Soviet inventor who travels to England to have his revolutionary propeller manufactured, and Penelope Dudley Ward as the woman who falls in love with...
  
  (1943)
• San Demetrio London
  San Demetrio London
  San Demetrio London is a Second World War film about the Merchant Navy. It deals with the crew of a tanker and their struggle to deliver their cargo to England during the Battle of the Atlantic...
  
  (1943)
• The Halfway House
  The Halfway House
  The Halfway House is a 1944 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Tom Walls, Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns. It also features the French actress Françoise Rosay...
  
  (1944)
• Tawny Pipit
  Tawny Pipit (film)
  Tawny Pipit is a British war film produced by Prestige Productions in 1944. It tells of how a sleepy English village becomes the centre of attention when a rare bird's nest is discovered there.-Plot:...
  
  (1944)
• The Way Ahead
  The Way Ahead
  The Way Ahead is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa. In the U.S., an edited version was released as The Immortal Battalion.The film was...
  
  (1944)
• Waterloo Road
  Waterloo Road (film)
  Waterloo Road is a 1945 British film based on the Waterloo area of South London. It was directed by Sidney Gilliat.-Plot:John Mills plays an AWOL squaddie who returns to south London to save his wife from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger played by Stewart Granger.-Cast:* John Mills as...
  
  (1945)
• The October Man
  The October Man
  The October Man is a 1947 mystery film starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, based on a novel by Eric Ambler, who also adapted it and produced...
  
  (1947)
• The White Unicorn
  The White Unicorn
  The White Unicorn is a 1947 British drama film directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood, Ian Hunter and Dennis Price....
  
  (1947)
• Take My Life
  Take My Life
  Take My Life is a 1947 British thriller film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt and Marius Goring.-Cast:* Hugh Williams as Nicholas Talbot* Greta Gynt as Philippa Shelley* Marius Goring as Sidney Flemming...
  
  (1947)
• My Brother's Keeper
  My Brother's Keeper (1948 film)
  My Brother's Keeper is a 1948 British crime film in the form of a convicts-on-the-run chase thriller, directed by Alfred Roome for Gainsborough Pictures. It was the first of only two films directed by Roome during a long career as a film editor...
  
  (1948)
• London Belongs to Me
  London Belongs to Me
  London Belongs to Me is a 1948 British film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Richard Attenborough and Alastair Sim. It was based on the novel of the same name by Norman Collins...
  
  (1948)
• The Blue Lagoon
  The Blue Lagoon (1949 film)
  The Blue Lagoon is a 1949 British romance and adventure film produced and directed by Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons and Donald Houston. The screenplay was adapted by John Baines, Michael Hogan and Frank Launder from the novel The Blue Lagoon by Henry De Vere Stacpoole...
  
  (1949)
• It's Not Cricket
  It's Not Cricket (1949 film)
  It's Not Cricket is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Alfred Roome and starring Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw and Maurice Denham. It was one of the final films made by Gainsborough Pictures before the studio was merged into the Rank Organisation.-Plot:Major Bright and Capain Early...
  
  (1949)
• Man on the Run
  Man on the Run
  Man on the Run is a 1949 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More and Laurence Harvey.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1949)
• Stop Press Girl
  Stop Press Girl
  Stop Press Girl is a 1949 British fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Barry and starring Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne; the latter two appearing in several different roles in the film.-Plot:...
  
  (1949)

• Marry Me (1949)
• Don't Ever Leave Me
  Don't Ever Leave Me
  Don't Ever Leave Me is a 1949 English romantic comedy film starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley...
  
  (1949)
• Madeleine
  Madeleine (film)
  Madeleine is a 1950 film directed by David Lean, based on a true story about Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier...
  
  (1950)
• Waterfront
  Waterfront (1950 film)
  Waterfront is a 1950 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison and Avis Scott. A sailor abandons his family, in the Liverpool slums...
  
  (1950)
• The Woman in Question
  The Woman in Question
  The Woman in Question is 1950 British mystery film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde and John McCallum...
  
  (1950)
• The Clouded Yellow
  The Clouded Yellow
  The Clouded Yellow is a 1951 British mystery film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty E. Box for Carillon Films.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (1950)
• Highly Dangerous
  Highly Dangerous
  Highly Dangerous is a 1950 British spy film starring Margaret Lockwood as a British entomologist trying to stop a biological attack with the help of an American journalist played by Dane Clark. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler.-Cast:...
  
  (1950)
• Mister Drake's Duck
  Mister Drake's Duck
  Mister Drake's Duck is a 1951 British science fiction comedy film directed by Val Guest and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Jon Pertwee, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Reginald Beckwith. Mr Drake, a farmer, discovers that his hens have started laying radioactive eggs.-Cast:* Douglas...
  
  (1951)
• Pool of London (1951)
• Laughter in Paradise
  Laughter in Paradise
  Laughter in Paradise is the title of a British comedy film released in 1951. The film stars Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton...
  
  (1951)
• High Treason
  High Treason (1951 film)
  High Treason is a 1951 British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street and T-Men. It is a sequel to the Oscar-winning 1950 film Seven Days to Noon. Director Roy Boulting, co-director and co-writer of the first film, also directed and...
  
  (1951)
• Street Corner
  Street Corner (1953 film)
  Street Corner is a 1953 British drama film. It was written by Muriel and Sydney Box and directed by Muriel. It was marketed as Both Sides of the Law in the United States. While not quite a documentary, the film depicts the daily routine of women in the police force from three different angles...
  
  (1953)
• The Red Beret
  The Red Beret
  The Red Beret is a 1953 British made Technicolor war film starring Alan Ladd, Leo Genn and Susan Stephen. It deals with the Parachute Regiment during the Second World War. It is notable as the first film made by Warwick Films with many of the crew working on various Warwick Films and Albert R....
  
  (1953)
• Meet Mr. Lucifer
  Meet Mr. Lucifer
  Meet Mr. Lucifer is a black and white British comedy satire film released in 1953 starring Stanley Holloway. Filmed at Ealing Studios, London, The film is based on the play Beggar My Neighbour by Arnold Ridley -Plot:When Mr Pedelty leaves his firm, he is given a...
  
  (1953)
• Diplomatic Passport (1954)
• The Ship That Died of Shame
  The Ship That Died of Shame
  The Ship That Died of Shame released in the United States as PT Raiders is a black-and-white 1955 Ealing Studios crime film starring George Baker, Richard Attenborough and Bill Owen....
  
  (1955)
• Secret Venture
  Secret Venture
  Secret Venture is a 1955 British B-movie thriller film directed by R. G. Springsteen and starring Kent Taylor, Jane Hylton and Kathleen Byron.-Plot:...
  
  (1955)
• Circus Friends (1956)
• Brothers in Law
  Brothers in Law (film)
  Brothers in Law is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and Jill Adams...
  
  (1957)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. It stars William...
  
  (1957)
• Heart of a Child
  Heart of a Child
  Heart of a Child is a 1958 film directed by Clive Donner. It stars Jean Anderson and Donald Pleasence.-Cast:* Jean Anderson as Maria* Donald Pleasence as Spiel* Richard Williams as Karl* Maureen Pryor as Frau Spiel* Norman Macowan as Heiss...
  
  (1958)
• Victim (1961)
• Emergency (1962)
• Hide and Seek (1964)
• For the Love of Ada
  For the Love of Ada (film)
  For the Love of Ada is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Ronnie Baxter and starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell and Jack Smethurst. It is a spin-off from the television series For the Love of Ada. An elderly couple are about to celebrate the first anniversary of their...
  
  (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Gandhi
  Gandhi (film)
  Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who led the nonviolent resistance movement against British colonial rule in India during the first half of the 20th century. The film was directed by Richard Attenborough and stars Ben Kingsley as Gandhi. They both...
  
  (1982)