Search results for "Cecil Parker"
For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
IMDb: 5.7
85

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Father Brown

Father Brown

Father Brown
IMDb: 6.7
91

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit
IMDb: 7.2
85

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material,…

I Believe in You

I Believe in You

I Believe in You
IMDb: 6.8
95

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.

Genre: Drama
Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn
IMDb: 6.2
118

A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her…

Genre: Drama, History
Dear Mr. Prohack

Dear Mr. Prohack

Dear Mr. Prohack
IMDb: 6
91

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Chiltern Hundreds

The Chiltern Hundreds

The Chiltern Hundreds
IMDb: 6.1
84

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is…

Genre: Comedy
Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill
IMDb: 6.1
103

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

Genre: Drama
Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott
IMDb: 6.5
93

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic…

Genre: Drama, History
Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra
IMDb: 6.2
138

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes
IMDb: 7.7
96

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss…

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup

Storm in a Teacup
IMDb: 6.5
87

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind
IMDb: 6.6
66

Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has…

Her Last Affaire

Her Last Affaire

Her Last Affaire
IMDb: 5.7
68

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer’s wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes…

Genre: Drama
A Cuckoo in the Nest

A Cuckoo in the Nest

A Cuckoo in the Nest
IMDb: 5.6
83

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married – to other people….

Genre: Comedy