London Films

The London Films Logo from Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955).

London Films is a British film production company founded in 1932 by Alexander Korda originally based at London Film Studios in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England. The company's productions included The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), Things to Come (1936), Rembrandt (1936), The Four Feathers (1939), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and The Third Man (1949). Their 1952 film The Sound Barrier won the Academy Award for Best Sound.

After a restructuring of Korda's organisation in the late 1940s, the Denham Studio was taken over by Rank and merged with Pinewood Studios. Some London Films were then made at Shepperton.

The company returned to active film-making in 1997 with Morgan Mason as chief executive.

Filmography

1930s

The London Films logo from Fire Over England (1937).

• La Dame de chez Maxim's (1932)
• Counsel's Opinion (1933)
• Wedding Rehearsal (1933)
• Men of Tomorrow (1933)
• Cash (1933)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
• The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
• Catherine the Great (1934)
• The Private Life of Gannets (1934)
• The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
• Sanders of the River (1935)
• Moscow Nights (1935)
• The Ghost Goes West (1935)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Rembrandt (1936)
• Men Are Not Gods (1936)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
• Forget Me Not (1936)
• A Romance in Flanders (1937)
• Fire Over England (1937)
• Dark Journey (1937)
• Storm in a Teacup (1937)
• Elephant Boy (1937)
• Farewell Again (1937)
• Knight Without Armour (1937)
• Action for Slander (1937)
• Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
• I, Claudius (1937) – project abandoned
• The Squeaker (1937)
• Paradise for Two (1937)
• The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
• South Riding (1938)
• The Drum (1938)
• The Challenge (1938)
• Prison Without Bars (1938)
• Q Planes (1939)
• The Four Feathers (1939)
• Over the Moon (1939)
• The Lion Has Wings (1939)

1940s

• 21 Days (1940)
• Conquest of the Air (1940)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• Perfect Strangers (1945)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• An Ideal Husband (1947)
• Mine Own Executioner (1947)
• Anna Karenina (1948)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
• The Small Back Room (1949)
• That Dangerous Age (1949)
• The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949)
• Saints and Sinners (1949)
• The Third Man (1949)

1950s

New Technicolor and Cinemascope Logo from Smiley (1956).

• The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
• The Cure for Love (1950)
• The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
• The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
• Bridge of Time (1950)
• State Secret (1950)
• My Daughter Joy (1950)
• Seven Days to Noon (1950)
• Gone to Earth (1950)
• The Wooden Horse (1950)
• Cry, The Beloved Country (1951)
• The Wonder Kid (1951)
• The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
• Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951)
• Girdle of Gold (1952)
• Outcast of the Islands (1952)
• Mr. Denning Drives North (1952)
• The Wild Heart (1952)
• The Sound Barrier (1952)
• The Ringer (1952)
• The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
• The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
• The Captain's Paradise (1953)
• Twice Upon a Time (1953)
• The Heart of the Matter (1953)
• The Iron Petticoat (1953)
• The Man Between (1953)
• Hobson's Choice (1954)
• Aunt Clara (1954)
• The Belles of St Trinian's (1954)
• Raising a Riot (1955)
• The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
• Richard III (1955)
• The Constant Husband (1955)
• Summertime (1955)
• A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
• The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
• Storm Over the Nile (1955)
• Smiley (1956)

Alexander Korda Films Inc. (USA)

1930s

• The Drum (1938)

1940s

• That Hamilton Woman (1941)
• Lydia (1941)
• Jungle Book (1942)

External links

• London Films at the Internet Movie Database