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This is a list of notable films financed by J. Arthur Rank and The Rank Organisation
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1936
|
Limelight
|
Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Anna Neagle
|
musical
|
Jan 1936
|
The Improper Duchess
|
City
|
Harry Hughes
|
Maurice Browne
|
Yvonne Arnaud
|
Based on play
|
Feb 1936
|
King of the Castle
|
City
|
Redd Davis
|
Basil Humphrys
|
June Clyde
|
|
Feb 1936
|
Rhodes of Africa
|
Gaumont
|
Berthold Viertel
|
Leslie Arliss
|
Walter Huston
|
biopic of Cecil Rhodes, shot in Rhodesia
|
Feb 1936
|
When Knights Were Bold
|
Capital
|
Jack Raymond
|
Max Schach
|
Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray
|
musical
|
Feb 1936
|
Public Nuisance Number 1
|
Cecil
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Hermann Fellner, Max Schach
|
Frances Day
|
|
Mar 1936
|
Fame
|
Wilcox
|
Leslie S. Hiscott
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Sydney Howard
|
|
Mar 1936
|
Debt of Honour
|
British National
|
Norman Walker
|
John Corfeld
|
Leslie Banks, Will Fyffe
|
|
Apr 1936
|
Pot Luck
|
Gainsborough
|
Tom Walls
|
Michael Balcon
|
Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn
|
Based on farce by Ben Travers
|
May 1936
|
Love in Exile
|
Capitol
|
Alfred L. Werker
|
Max Schach
|
Helen Vinson
|
|
May 1936
|
The Marriage of Corbal
|
Capitol
|
Karl Grune
|
Max Schach
|
Nils Asther
|
historical drama
|
Jun 1936
|
Seven Sinners
|
Gaumont
|
Albert de Courville
|
|
Edmund Lowe, Constance Cummings
|
|
Jun 1936
|
The Secret Agent
|
Gaumont
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Michael Balcon
|
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll
|
Spy thriller
|
Aug 1936
|
Where There's a Will
|
Gainsborough
|
William Beaudine
|
Michael Balcon
|
Will Hay
|
comedy
|
Aug 1936
|
East Meets West
|
Gaumont
|
Herbert Mason
|
|
George Arliss
|
|
Sep 1936
|
Tudor Rose
|
Gaumont
|
Robert Stevenson
|
Hubert Bath
|
John Mills
|
Story of Lady Jane Grey
|
Sep 1936
|
Dishonour Bright
|
Cecil, Capitol
|
Tom Wallis
|
Hermann Fellner, Max Schach
|
Tom Walls
|
Based on farce by Ben Travers
|
Sep 1936
|
Southern Roses
|
Capitol, Grafton
|
Frederic Zelnik
|
Max Schach, Isadore Goldsmith
|
George Robey
|
|
1936
|
Millions
|
Wilcox
|
Leslie Hiscott
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Gordon Harker
|
|
Oct 1936
|
Everything is Thunder
|
Gaumont
|
Milton Rosner
|
|
Constance Bennett
|
|
Oct 1936
|
Tropical Trouble
|
City
|
Harry Hughes
|
Basil Humphrys
|
Douglass Montgomery
|
|
Oct 1936
|
The Secret of Stamboul
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Andrew Marton
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Valerie Hobson
|
|
Oct 1936
|
Land without Music
|
Capitol
|
Walter Forde
|
Max Schach
|
Richard Tauber
|
|
Nov 1936
|
This'll Make You Whistle
|
Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Jack Buchanan
|
musical
|
Dec 1936
|
You Must Get Married
|
City
|
Lesley Pearce
|
Basil Humphrys
|
Frances Day
|
comedy
|
Dec 1936
|
Windbag the Sailor
|
Gainsborough, Gaumont
|
William Beaudine
|
Michael Balcon
|
Will Hay
|
comedy
|
Dec 1936
|
Sabotage
|
Gaumont
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Michael Balcon
|
Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka
|
Based on novel by Joseph Conrad
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1937
|
Splinters in the Air
|
Wilcox
|
Alfred J Goulding
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Sydney Howard
|
|
1937
|
Sunset in Vienna
|
Wilcox
|
Norman Walker
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Lili Palmer
|
|
Jan 1937
|
Good Morning, Boys
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
Will Hay
|
Comedy
|
Jan 1937
|
OHMS
|
Gaumont
|
Raoul Walsh
|
|
Wallace Ford, John Mills
|
|
Jan 1937
|
Head Over Heels
|
Gaumont
|
Sonnie Hale
|
|
Jessie Matthews
|
musical
|
Feb 1937
|
The Great Barrier
|
Gaumont
|
Milton Rosner, Geoffrey Barkas
|
|
Richard Arlen, Lili Palmer
|
Shot in Canada
|
Feb 1937
|
London Melody
|
Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Anna Neagle
|
|
Mar 1937
|
For Valour
|
Capitol
|
Tom Walls
|
Max Schach
|
Tom Walls
|
Based on farce by Ben Travers
|
Mar 1937
|
The Frog
|
Wilcox
|
Jack Raymond
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Gordon Harker
|
|
Apr 1937
|
The Gang Show
|
|
Alfred J. Goulding
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Ralph Reader
|
|
Apr 1937
|
Our Fighting Navy
|
Wilcox
|
Norman Walker
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Robert Douglas
|
|
Apr 1937
|
O-Kay for Sound
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
The Crazy Gang
|
comedy
|
May 1937
|
Take My Tip
|
Gaumont
|
Herbert Mason
|
Michael Balcon
|
Jack Hulbert, Cecily Courtnidge
|
|
Jun 1937
|
King Solomon's Mines
|
Gaumont
|
Robert Stevenson
|
Michael Hogan
|
Paul Robeson
|
Based on novel by H Rider Haggard
|
Jul 1937
|
Said O'Reilly to McNab
|
Gainsborough
|
William Beaudine
|
Edward Black
|
Will Mahoney, Will Fyffe
|
|
Jul 1937
|
Gangway
|
Gaumont
|
Sonnie Hale
|
|
Jessie Matthews
|
musical comedy
|
Aug 1937
|
School for Husbands
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Andrew Martin
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Rex Harrison
|
|
Aug 1937
|
Command Performance
|
Grosvernor Films
|
Sinclair Hill
|
Harcourt Templeman
|
|
|
Aug 1937
|
Dr Syn
|
Gainsborough
|
Roy William Neil
|
Edward Black
|
George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood
|
Based on classic novel
|
Sep 1937
|
Non-Stop New York
|
Gaumont
|
Robert Stevenson
|
|
Anna Lee
|
|
Sep 1937
|
Smash and Grab
|
|
Tim Whelan
|
Jack Buchanan
|
|
Jack Buchanan
|
Oct 1937
|
Oh, Mr Porter!
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
Will Hay
|
Comedy
|
Nov 1937
|
Young and Innocent
|
Gaumont
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Edward Black
|
Nova Pilbeam
|
Thriller
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1938
|
Alf's Button Afloat
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Edward Black
|
The Crazy Gang
|
|
1938
|
A Spot of Bother
|
|
David MacDonald
|
Anthony Havelock Allen
|
|
|
1938
|
Follow Your Star
|
|
Sinclair Hill
|
Harcourt Templeman
|
Arthur Tracy
|
|
1938
|
The Sky's the Limit
|
Jack Buchanan
|
|
Jack Buchanan
|
Jack Buchanan
|
|
Jan 1938
|
Second Best Bed
|
Capitol
|
Tom Walls
|
Max Schach
|
Tom Walls
|
Based on farce by Ben Travers
|
Jan 1938
|
Sweet Devil
|
Pinewood
|
|
Jack Buchanan
|
|
|
Jan 1938
|
Owd Bob
|
Gainsborough
|
Robert Stevenson
|
|
|
|
Jan 1938
|
Bank Holiday
|
Gainsborough
|
Carol Reed
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
comedy-drama
|
Mar 1938
|
Kicking the Moon Around
|
|
Walter Forde
|
|
|
|
Apr 1938
|
Sailing Along
|
Gaumont
|
Sonnie Hale
|
|
Jessie Matthews
|
Musical
|
May 1938
|
Strange Boarders
|
Gainsborough
|
Herbert Mason
|
Edward Black
|
Tom Walls
|
|
Jun 1938
|
Break the News
|
Jack Buchanan
|
Rene Clair
|
Rene Clair
|
Maurice Chevalier
|
|
Aug 1938
|
Kate Plus Ten
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Jeffrey Dell
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Jack Hulbert
|
|
Sep 1938
|
Convict 99
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Edward Black
|
Will Hay
|
comedy
|
Oct 1938
|
Hey! Hey! USA
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Michael Balcon
|
Will Hay
|
comedy
|
Oct 1938
|
Crackerjack
|
Gainsborough
|
Albert de Courville
|
Edward Black
|
Tom Walls
|
|
Oct 1938
|
Pygmalion
|
|
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hill
|
Based on play by G.B. Shaw
|
Oct 1938
|
The Lady Vanishes
|
Gaumont
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
|
Script by Launder and Gilliat
|
Oct 1938
|
Lightning Conductor
|
Pinebrook
|
Maurice Elvey
|
Anthony Havelock Allen
|
Gordon Harker
|
|
Dec 1938
|
Old Bones of the River
|
|
Marcel Varney
|
|
Will Hay
|
Comedy spoof of Sanders films
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1939
|
The Mikado
|
|
Victor Schertzinger
|
Geoffrey Toye
|
Kenny Baker
|
Based on play by Gilbert and Sullivan
|
Apr 1939
|
A Girl Must Live
|
Gainsborough
|
Carol Reed
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
Comedy
|
Oct 1939
|
On the Night of the Fire
|
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
|
Ralph Richardson
|
|
Nov 1939
|
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
|
G & S Films
|
Thorold Dickinson
|
|
Leslie Banks
|
|
Nov 1939
|
The Frozen Limits
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
The Crazy Gang
|
Comedy
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Mar 1940
|
Band Waggon
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
Comedy based on BBC radio show
|
May 1940
|
For Freedom
|
Gainsborough
|
Maurice Elvey
|
Edward Black
|
Will Fyffe
|
|
Jun 1940
|
A Window in London
|
G & S Films
|
Herbert Mason
|
|
Michael Redgrave
|
|
Aug 1940
|
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
|
Gainborough
|
Walter Forde
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
Based on Brandon Thomas farce
|
Dec 1940
|
Neutral Port
|
Gainsborough
|
Walter Forde
|
Edward Black
|
Will Fyffe
|
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Feb 1941
|
Gasbags
|
Gainsborough
|
Walter Ford, Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
The Crazy Gang
|
|
Feb 1941
|
Freedom Radio
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Mario Zampi
|
|
|
Mar 1941
|
Old Bill and Son
|
|
Ian Dalyrymple
|
|
|
|
May 1941
|
The Ghost Train
|
Gainsborough
|
Walter Forde
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
Based on stage play
|
Aug 1941
|
Major Barbara (1941)
|
Gabriel Pascal Productions
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller
|
Based on play by G.B. Shaw
|
Sep 1941
|
Jeannie
|
|
Harold French
|
Marcell Hellman
|
|
|
Sep 1941
|
Cottage to Let
|
Gainsborough
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Edward Black
|
Leslie Banks
|
|
Sep 1941
|
He Found a Star
|
John Corfield Productions
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
John Corfield
|
Vic Oliver
|
|
Oct 1941
|
The 49th Parallel
|
The Archers
|
Michael Powell
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Laurence Olivier, Eric Portman
|
WW2 film, set in Canada
|
Oct 1941
|
I Thank You
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
|
Dec 1941
|
Hi Gang!
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varnel
|
Edward Black
|
Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon
|
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Apr 1942
|
Back Room Boy
|
Gainsborough
|
Herbert Mason
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
comedy
|
May 1942
|
Hard Steel
|
GHW Productions
|
Norman Walker
|
James Sloan
|
Wilfrid Lawson
|
|
Jun 1942
|
The Day Will Dawn
|
|
Harold French
|
Paul Soskin
|
Ralph Richardson
|
WW2, set in Norway
|
Aug 1942
|
Unpublished Story
|
Two Cities
|
Harold French
|
Anthony Havelock-Allen
|
Richard Greene, Valeria Hobson
|
Co-production with Columbia [citation needed]
|
Aug 1942
|
Uncensored
|
Gainsborough
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Edward Black
|
Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert
|
WW2, set in Belgium
|
Sep 1942
|
The First of the Few
|
|
Leslie Howard
|
Leslie Howard
|
Leslie Howard, David Niven
|
WW2, Biopic of Mitchell
|
Oct 1942
|
Secret Mission
|
Excelsior
|
Harold French
|
Marcell Hellman
|
Hugh Williams, James Mason
|
WW2
|
Nov 1942
|
The Great Mr Handel
|
GWH Productions
|
Norman Walker
|
James Sloan
|
Wilfrid Lawson
|
Biopic of Handell
|
Sep 1942
|
In Which We Serve
|
Two Cities
|
Noël Coward
|
Noël Coward
|
Noël Coward
|
WW2 film, one of biggest hits of the year
|
Dec 1942
|
King Arthur Was a Gentleman
|
Gainsborough
|
Marcel Varney
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
comedy
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Feb 1943
|
It's That Man Again
|
Gainsborough
|
Walter Forde
|
Edward Black
|
Tommy Handley
|
|
Mar 1943
|
The Silver Fleet
|
The Archers
|
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Ralph Richardson
|
|
Apr 1943
|
We Dive at Dawn
|
Gainsborough
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Edward Black
|
Eric Portman, John Mills
|
WW2
|
Apr 1943
|
The Gentle Sex
|
Two Cities
|
Leslie Howard
|
Derrick de Marney
|
Joan Gates
|
WW2; Howard's last film; minor hit
|
Jun 1943
|
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
|
The Archers
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr
|
One of biggest hits of the year
|
Aug 1943
|
The Man in Grey
|
Gainsborough
|
Leslie Arliss
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
|
First Gainsborough melodrama
|
Sep 1943
|
The Flemish Farm
|
Two Cities
|
Jeffrey Dell
|
Sydney Box
|
Clive Brook
|
|
Sep 1943
|
Dear Octopus
|
Gainsborough
|
Harold French
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding
|
Based on play by Dodie Smith; minor hit
|
Nov 1943
|
They Met in the Dark
|
Excelsior
|
Karel Lamec
|
Marcel Hellman
|
James Mason
|
|
Nov 1943
|
Millions Like Us
|
Gainsborough
|
Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
|
Edward Black
|
Eric Portman, Pat Roc
|
WW2
|
Nov 1943
|
The Lamp Still Burns
|
Two Cities
|
Maurice Elvey
|
Leslie Howard
|
Rosamund John, Stewart Granger
|
Minor hit
|
Dec1943
|
The Demi-Paradise
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Filippo Del Giudice, Anatole de Grunwald
|
Laurence Olivier
|
WW2
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Feb 1944
|
On Approval
|
Independent
|
Clive Brook
|
Sydney Box
|
Clive Brook
|
Based on play by Lonsdale
|
Mar 1944
|
Bees in Paradise
|
Gainsborough
|
Val Guest
|
Edward Black
|
Arthur Askey
|
comedy
|
Apr 1944
|
Tawny Pipit
|
Prestige
|
Bernard Miles, Charles Saunders
|
William Sistrom
|
|
|
May 1944
|
Fanny By Gaslight
|
Gainsborough
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Edward Black
|
James Mason, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent
|
2nd Gainsborough melodrama, one of biggest hits of year
|
Jun 1944
|
This Happy Breed
|
Two Cities
|
David Lean
|
Noël Coward
|
Robert Newton
|
Based on play by Noël Coward, one of biggest hits of year
|
Jun 1944
|
The Way Ahead
|
Two Cities
|
Carol Reed
|
Norman Walker
|
David Niven
|
WW2; one of biggest hits of year
|
Jul 1944
|
English Without Tears
|
Two Cities
|
Harold French
|
Anatole de Grunwald
|
Michael Wilding
|
Based on script by Terence Rattigan
|
Jul 1944
|
Give Us the Moon
|
Gainsborough
|
Val Guest
|
Edward Black
|
Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver
|
|
Aug 1944
|
A Canterbury Tale
|
The Archers
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Eric Portman
|
First P & P film to not be big hit
|
Oct 1944
|
Mr Emmanuel
|
Two Cities
|
Harold French
|
William Sistrom
|
Felix Aylmer
|
|
Nov 1944
|
2,000 Women
|
Gainsborough
|
Frank Launder
|
Edward Black
|
Phyllis Calvert, Pat Roc
|
minor hit
|
Nov 1944
|
Love Story
|
Gainsborough
|
Leslie Arliss
|
Harold Huth
|
Stewart Granger, Margaret Lockwood, Pat Roc
|
Gainsborough melodrama, one of biggest hits of year
|
Nov 1944
|
Don't Take It To Heart
|
Two Cities
|
Jeffrey Dell
|
Sydney Box
|
Richard Greene
|
|
1944
|
Madonna of the Seven Moons
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
R.J. Minney
|
Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Pat Roc
|
Gainsborough melodrama, one of biggest hits of year
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Feb 1945
|
Waterloo Road
|
Gainsborough
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
Edward Black
|
John Mills, Stewart Granger
|
Minor hit
|
1945
|
Henry V
|
Two Cities
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Filippo Del Guice
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Based on play by Shakespeare; minor hit
|
1945
|
A Place of One's Own
|
Gainsborough
|
Bernard Knowles
|
R.J. Minney
|
James Mason, Margaret Lockwood
|
Ghost story; minor hit
|
May 1945
|
Blithe Spirit
|
Two Cities
|
David Lean
|
Noël Coward, Constance Cummings
|
Rex Harrison
|
Based on play by Noël Coward; minor hit
|
Jul 1945
|
They Were Sisters
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
Harold Huth
|
James Mason
|
Gainsborough melodrama; major hit
|
Jun 1945
|
The Way to the Stars (1945)
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Anatole de Grunwald
|
Trevor Howard
|
WW2; minor hit
|
Jul 1945
|
I'll Be Your Sweetheart
|
Gainsborough
|
Val Guest
|
Maurice Ostrer
|
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Rennie, Vic Oliver
|
musical; minor hit
|
Oct 1945
|
Johnny Frenchman
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon
|
Tom Walls, Pat Roc
|
|
1945
|
They Knew Mr. Knight
|
|
Norman Walker
|
|
Mervyn Johns
|
|
Sep 1945
|
Dead of Night
|
Ealing
|
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden
|
Michael Balcon
|
|
horror anthology; minor hit
|
Oct 1945
|
The Seventh Veil
|
|
Compton Bennett
|
Sydney Box
|
James Mason, Ann Todd
|
One of biggest hits of the year
|
Nov 1945
|
Brief Encounter (1945)
|
|
David Lean
|
Noël Coward
|
Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
|
Based on play by Noël Coward; major hit
|
Nov 1945
|
I Know Where I'm Going!
|
The Archers
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Wendy Hiller
|
Romantic comedy; minor hit
|
Nov 1945
|
The Wicked Lady
|
Gainsborough
|
Leslie Arliss
|
R.J. Minney
|
Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Pat Roc, Michael Rennie
|
Gainsborough melodrama; biggest hit of 1946
|
Dec 1945
|
Pink String and Sealing Wax
|
Ealing
|
Robert Hamer
|
Michael Balcon
|
Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers
|
|
Dec 1945
|
The Rake's Progress
|
Independent Producers
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
Launder & Gilliat
|
Rex Harrison
|
Comedy; hit
|
1945
|
Here Comes the Sun
|
|
John Baxter
|
|
Flanagan & Allen
|
comedy
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1946
|
Caesar and Cleopatra
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Gabriel Pascal
|
Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger
|
Based on play by Shaw; Very popular but hugely expensive
|
Apr 1946
|
The Captive Heart
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Michael Redgrave
|
Major hit
|
1946
|
Bedelia
|
John Corfield Productions
|
Lance Comfort
|
Isadore Goldsmith
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
melodrama; minor hit
|
Jun 1946
|
Caravan
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
Harold Huth
|
Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Dennis Price
|
Gainsborough melodrama, one of biggest hits of year
|
Apr 1946
|
The Years Between
|
Sydney Box
|
Compton Bennett
|
Sydney Box
|
Michael Redgrave
|
Minor hit
|
1946
|
Beware of Pity
|
Two Cities
|
Maurice Elvey
|
|
Lili Palmer
|
|
1946
|
I See a Dark Stranger
|
|
Frank Launder
|
Gilliat & Launder
|
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard
|
spy thriller
|
Sep 1946
|
Men of Two Worlds
|
Two Cities
|
Thorold Dickinson
|
|
Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert
|
Shot in Africa; minor hit but hugely expensive
|
Sep 1946
|
London Town
|
|
Wesley Ruggles
|
|
Sid Field
|
musical; minor hit but hugely expensive
|
Nov 1946
|
The Magic Bow
|
Gainsborough
|
Bernard Knowles
|
R.J. Minney
|
Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert
|
Gainsborough melodrama; minor hit
|
1946
|
The Overlanders
|
Ealing
|
Harry Watt
|
Leslie Norman, Michael Balcon
|
Chips Rafferty
|
Shot in Australia; one of years biggest hits
|
Dec 1946
|
Carnival
|
Two Cities
|
Stanley Haynes
|
|
Sally Grey
|
|
Dec 1946
|
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
|
Archers
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
David Niven, Kim Stanley
|
Minor hit; first Royal Film Performance
|
1946
|
School for Secrets
|
Two Cities
|
Peter Ustinov
|
|
Ralph Richardson
|
|
1946
|
Great Expectations
|
Cineguild
|
David Lean
|
Anthony Havelock-Allan, Ronald Neame
|
John Mills, Alec Guinness
|
Based on novel by Dickens; one of biggest hits of 1947
|
Dec 1946
|
Green for Danger
|
Individual Pictures
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
Launder & Gilliat
|
Sally Gray, Rosamund John
|
Minor hit
|
1946
|
Daybreak
|
|
Comptom Bennett
|
Sydney Box
|
Eric Portman, Ann Todd
|
Not released until 1948
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1947
|
Hungry Hill
|
Two Cities
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
William Sistrom, Dennis Price
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
melodrama; commercial disappointment
|
Feb 1947
|
Odd Man Out (1947)
|
Two Cities
|
Carol Reed
|
Carol Reed
|
James Mason
|
IRA thriller; one of biggest hits of year
|
Feb 1947
|
The Root of All Evil
|
Gainsborough
|
Brock Williams
|
Harold Huth
|
Phyllis Calvert
|
melodrama
|
Feb 1947
|
Hue and Cry
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Balcon
|
Alistair Sim
|
minor hit
|
Mar 1947
|
Nicholas Nickleby
|
Ealing
|
Cavalcanti
|
Michael Balcon
|
Cedric Hardwick
|
Based on Dickens novel; minor hit
|
Apr 1947
|
The Man Within
|
Production Film Service
|
Bernard Knowles
|
Sydney Box, Muriel Box
|
Michael Regrave, Jean Kent
|
Not profitable
|
May 1947
|
Black Narcissus (1947)
|
Archers
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Deborah Kerr
|
Set in India; major hit
|
May 1947
|
Take My Life
|
Cineguild
|
Ronald Neame
|
Anthony Havelock-Allen
|
Hugh Williams
|
|
Jul 1947
|
The Brothers
|
Gainsborough
|
David MacDonald
|
Sydney Box
|
Pat Roc, Maxwell Reed
|
melodrama; Lost money
|
Jun 1947
|
Bush Christmas
|
CEF
|
Ralph Smart
|
Ralph Smart
|
Chips Rafferty
|
Shot in Australia; minor hit
|
May 1947
|
Dear Murderer
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
Betty Box
|
Eric Portman, Greta Gynt
|
|
Jun 1947
|
The Loves of Joanna Godden
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon
|
Googie Withers, Jean Kent
|
|
Jun 1947
|
Frieda
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Mai Zetterling
|
post-WW2 romance; major hit
|
Jun 1947
|
The Upturned Glass
|
Triton
|
Lawrence Huntington
|
James Mason
|
James Mason
|
film noir; major hit
|
Aug 1947
|
Holiday Camp
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
Sydney Box
|
Jack Warner, Flora Robson
|
major hit
|
Aug 1947
|
Jassy
|
Gainsborough
|
Bernard Knowles
|
Sydney Box
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
Gainsborough melodrama, one of years biggest hits
|
Sep 1947
|
Master of Bankdam
|
Holbein
|
Walter Forde
|
|
Anne Crawford
|
|
Aug 1947
|
Captain Boycott
|
Individual
|
Frank Launder
|
Gilliat & Launder
|
Stewart Granger
|
historical film; minor hit
|
Aug 1947
|
The October Man
|
Two Cities
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
John Mills
|
minor hit
|
Sep 1947
|
Fame is the Spur
|
|
Roy Boulting
|
John Boulting
|
Michael Redgrave
|
|
Oct 1947
|
Uncle Silas
|
|
Charles Frank
|
|
Jean Simmons
|
|
Oct 1947
|
The White Unicorn
|
John Corfield
|
Bernard Knowles
|
|
Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood
|
|
Dec 1947
|
The End of the River
|
Archers
|
Derek Twist
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Sabu
|
|
Oct 1947
|
The Woman in the Hall
|
Wessex
|
Jack Lee
|
Ian Dalrymple
|
Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons
|
|
Nov 1947
|
It Always Rains on Sunday
|
Ealing
|
Robert Hamer
|
Michael Balcon
|
Googie Withers
|
major hit
|
Nov 1947
|
When the Bough Breaks
|
Gainsborough
|
Lawrence Huntington
|
Betty Box
|
Pat Roc
|
Gainsborough melodrama; minor hit
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1948
|
The Mark of Cain
|
Two Cities
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
W.P. Lipscomb
|
Eric Portman
|
|
Jan 1948
|
Vice Versa
|
Two Cities
|
Peter Ustinov
|
George H. Brown
|
Roger Livesey
|
Comedy
|
Jan 1948
|
Easy Money
|
Gainsborough
|
Bernard Knowles
|
A. Frank Bundy
|
Greta Gynt
|
|
Feb 1948
|
Against the Wind
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Balcon
|
|
War movie
|
Feb 1948
|
Blanche Fury
|
Cineguild
|
Marc Allegret
|
Anthony Havelock-Allan
|
Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson
|
melodrama
|
1948
|
Miranda
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
Betty Box
|
Glynis Johns
|
mermaid comedy, one of hits of year
|
Apr 1948
|
Broken Journey
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
|
Phyllis Calvert
|
|
Apr 1948
|
One Night with You
|
Two Cities
|
Terence Young
|
|
|
|
Apr 1948
|
Good Time Girl
|
Gainsborough
|
David MacDonald
|
Sydney Box
|
Jean Kent
|
|
Apr 1948
|
Corridor of Mirrors
|
Apollo
|
Terence Young
|
Rudolph Cartier
|
Eric Portman
|
|
Jul 1948
|
The Calendar
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
Antony Darnborough
|
John McCallum
|
Based on story by Edgar Wallace
|
May 1948
|
Hamlet
|
Two Cities
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Laurence Olivier
|
Based on play by Shakespeare; big hit
|
Jun 1948
|
My Sister and I
|
Burnham
|
Harold Huth
|
John Corfield, Harold Huth
|
Sally Ann Howes
|
|
Jun 1948
|
Oliver Twist
|
Cineguild
|
David Lean
|
Ronald Neame
|
Alec Guinness, Robert Newton
|
Based on novel by Dickens
|
Aug 1948
|
My Brother's Keeper
|
Gainsborough
|
Alfred Roome
|
Sydney Box
|
Jack Warner
|
|
Aug 1948
|
London Belongs to Me
|
Individual Pictures
|
Sidney Gilliat
|
Gilliat & Launder
|
Richard Attenborough, Alistair Sim
|
|
Sep 1948
|
The Red Shoes
|
Archers
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Powell & Pressburger
|
Moira Shearer
|
ballet film
|
1948
|
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
|
Two Cities
|
Laurence Huntington
|
|
|
|
1948
|
Saraband for Dead Lovers
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph, Michael Balcon
|
Stewart Granger
|
historical melodrama
|
Sep 1948
|
The Weaker Sex
|
Two Cities
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Paul Soskin
|
Ursula Jeans
|
|
Oct 1948
|
The Blind Goddess
|
Gainsborough
|
Harold French
|
Harold French, Betty Box
|
Eric Portman
|
|
Sep 1948
|
Esther Waters
|
Wessex Film
|
Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud
|
Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
|
Oct 1948
|
Sleeping Car to Trieste
|
Two Cities
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
George Brown
|
Jean Kent
|
thriller
|
Oct 1948
|
Woman Hater
|
Two Cities
|
Terence Young
|
William Sistrom
|
Stewart Granger
|
comedy
|
Oct 1948
|
Quartet
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
|
Anthology based on stores of Somerset Maugham
|
Nov 1948
|
Here Come the Huggetts
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
Betty E. Box
|
Jack Warner
|
2nd Huggett film
|
Nov 1948
|
It's Hard to Be Good
|
Two Cities
|
Jeffrey Dell
|
John W. Gossage
|
Anne Crawford
|
|
1948
|
Another Shore
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Balcon
|
Robert Beatty
|
|
Nov 1948
|
Scott of the Antarctic
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon
|
John Mills
|
One of years biggest hits
|
Jan 1949
|
The Fool and the Princess
|
Film Producers Guild
|
William C Hammond
|
Frank A. Hoare
|
Bruce Lester
|
|
Dec 1948
|
Look Before You Love
|
Burnham
|
Harold Huth
|
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
|
1948
|
Once a Jolly Swagman
|
Wessex
|
Jack Lee
|
Ian Dalrymple
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
|
Jan 1949
|
Portrait from Life
|
Gainsborough
|
Terence Fisher
|
Antony Darnborough
|
Mai Zetterling
|
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1949
|
Warning to Wantons
|
Acquila
|
Donald Wilson
|
Donald Wilson
|
Harold Warrender
|
|
Jan 1949
|
Third Time Lucky
|
Anglofilm
|
Gordon Parry
|
Mario Zampi
|
Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh
|
gambling story
|
Jan 1949
|
Eureka Stockade
|
Ealing
|
Harry Watt
|
Leslie Norman, Michael Balcon
|
Chips Rafferty
|
Shot in Australia; big flop
|
Feb 1949
|
Once Upon a Dream
|
Sydney Box
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Sydney Box
|
Googie Withers
|
Comedy, Ralph Thomas' directorial debut
|
Jan 1949
|
The Passionate Friends (1949)
|
Cineguild
|
Ronald Neame
|
David Leane
|
Ann Todd, Claude Rains
|
Based on novel by HG Wells
|
Feb 1949
|
Vote for Huggett
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
Betty E Box
|
Jack Warner
|
3rd Huggett film
|
Mar 1949
|
The History of Mr. Polly
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Pelissier
|
John Mills
|
John Mills
|
|
Apr 1949
|
All Over the Town
|
Wessex Film
|
Derek Twist
|
Ian Dalrymple
|
Norman Wooland
|
|
Mar 1949
|
The Blue Lagoon (1949)
|
Individual Pictures
|
Frank Launder
|
Gilliat & Launder
|
Jean Simmons, Donald Houston
|
Shot in Fiji, one of biggest hits of year
|
May 1949
|
Fools Rush In
|
Pinewood
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Aubrey Baring
|
Sally Anne Howes
|
|
April 1949
|
Bad Lord Byron
|
Triton
|
David MacDonald
|
Aubrey Baring
|
Dennis Price
|
Big flop
|
Mar 1949
|
Floodtide
|
Acquila
|
Frederick Wilson
|
Donald B. Wilson
|
Gordon Jackson
|
|
Apr 1949
|
It's Not Cricket
|
Gainsborough
|
Alfred Roome, Roy Rich
|
Betty Box
|
Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
|
Comedy
|
May 1949
|
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
|
Gainsborough
|
Ralph Smart
|
Ralph Keene, Alfred Roome
|
John McCallum, Honor Blackman
|
|
Apr 1949
|
Passport to Pimlico
|
Ealing
|
Henry Cornelius
|
Michael Balcon
|
Margaret Rutherford
|
Comedy
|
May 1949
|
The Huggetts Abroad
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin
|
Betty Box
|
Jack Warner
|
Fourth (and last) Huggett movie
|
May 1949
|
Adam and Evelyne
|
Two Cities
|
Harold French
|
Harold French
|
Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons
|
Comedy
|
May 1949
|
The Perfect Woman
|
Two Cities
|
Bernard Knowles
|
Alfred Black, George Black
|
Pat Roc, Stanley Holloway
|
Comedy
|
Jun 1949
|
Stop Press Girl
|
Aquila
|
Michael Barry
|
John Croyson
|
Sally Ann Howes
|
|
Jun 1949
|
Marry Me
|
Gainsborough
|
Terrence Fisher
|
Betty Box
|
Derek Bond
|
comedy, flop
|
Jun 1949
|
Christopher Columbus
|
Gainsborough
|
David MacDonald
|
Sydney Box
|
Frederick March
|
Biopic, huge flop
|
Jun 1949
|
Whisky Galore
|
Ealing
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
Michael Balcon
|
Joan Greenwood
|
Comedy
|
Jun 1949
|
Kind Hearts and Coronets
|
Ealing
|
Robert Hamer
|
Michael Balcon
|
Alec Guinness, Dennis Price
|
comedy
|
Jul 1949
|
Poets Pub
|
Aquila
|
Frederick Wilson
|
Donald Wilson
|
Derek Bond
|
|
Aug 1949
|
Helter Skelter
|
Gainsborough
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Antony Darnborough
|
David Tomlinson
|
comedy
|
Jul 1949
|
Don't Ever Leave Me
|
Gainsborough
|
Arthur Crabtree
|
Betty Box
|
Petula Clark
|
comedy
|
Aug 1949
|
Madness of the Heart
|
Two Cities
|
Charles Bennett
|
Richard Wainwright
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
melodrama, minor hit
|
Aug 1949
|
Tottie True
|
Two Cities
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Jean Kent
|
musical
|
Aug 1949
|
Train of Events
|
Ealing
|
Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Peter Finch
|
multi story film
|
Aug 1949
|
The Lost People
|
Gainsborough
|
Muriel Box, Bernard Knowles
|
Gordon Wellesley
|
Mai Zetterling
|
lost money
|
Sept 1949
|
Dear Mr Prohack
|
Wessex
|
Thorton Freeland
|
Ian Dalrymple
|
Cecil Parker
|
|
1949
|
The Chiltern Hundreds
|
Two Cities
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
George H. Brown
|
Cecil Parker
|
Based on play
|
Sept 1949
|
Diamond City
|
Gainsborough
|
David MacDonald
|
Alex Bryce, S. Frank Bundy
|
David Farrar, Diana Dors
|
Shot in South Africa, big flop
|
Oct 1949
|
Give Us This Day
|
Plantagenet
|
Edward Dymttryk
|
N.A. Bronsten, Rod E. Geiger
|
Sam Wanamaker
|
|
Dec 1949
|
The Spider and the Fly
|
Mayflower
|
Robert Hamer
|
Aubrey Baring, Maxwell Setton
|
Eric Portman
|
First from Baring and Setton team, shot in Paris
|
Nov 1949
|
A Run for Your Money
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman
|
Donald Houston
|
Comedy
|
Nov 1949
|
The Romantic Age
|
Pinnacle
|
Edmond T. Gréville
|
Edward Dryhurst, Eric L'Epine Smith
|
Hugh Williams
|
|
Dec 1949
|
Boys in Brown (1949)
|
Gainsborough
|
Montgomery Tully
|
Antony Darnborough
|
Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough
|
|
Nov 1949
|
The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Pelissier
|
John Mills
|
|
fantasy comedy
|
1949
|
Traveller's Joy
|
Gainsborough
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Antony Darnborough
|
Googie Withers
|
|
Mar 1949
|
The Cardboard Cavalier
|
Two Cities
|
Walter Forde
|
Walter Forde
|
Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood
|
historical comedy
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1950
|
The Blue Lamp
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner
|
Biggest hit of 1950, inspired Dixon of Dock Green
|
Feb 1950
|
Golden Salamander
|
Pinewood
|
Ronald Neame
|
Alexander Galperson
|
Trevor Howard
|
|
Feb 1950
|
Madeleine
|
|
David Lean
|
Sydney Haynes
|
Ann Todd
|
based on true story
|
Feb 1950
|
Morning Departure
|
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Jay Lewis
|
John Mills
|
Based on stage play. Box Office success.
|
Mar 1950
|
The Astonished Heart
|
Gainsborough
|
Terence Fisher
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
Noël Coward
|
Based on play by Noël Coward
|
29 Mar 1950
|
They Were Not Divided
|
Two Cities
|
Terence Young
|
Herbert Smith
|
|
Box office hit
|
May 1950
|
The Reluctant Widow
|
Two Cities
|
Bernard Knowles
|
Gordon Wellesley
|
Jean Kent
|
|
May 1950
|
Prelude to Fame
|
Two Cities
|
Fergus McDonnell
|
Donald Wilson
|
Guy Rolfe
|
|
May 1950
|
So Long at the Fair
|
|
Terence Fisher, Anthony Darnbrough
|
Betty Box
|
Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde
|
|
June 1950
|
Dance Hall
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Balcon
|
Diana Dors
|
social realism
|
Jun 1950
|
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
|
Pinnacle
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Brock Williams
|
Cecil Parker
|
comedy
|
July 1950
|
Waterfront
|
Conqueror
|
Michael Anderson
|
Paul Soskin
|
Robert Newton
|
|
1950
|
Bitter Springs
|
Ealing
|
Ralph Smart
|
Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman
|
Chips Rafferty
|
Shot in Australia
|
Aug 1950
|
Trio
|
Gainsborough
|
Ken Annakin, Harold French
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
Jean Simmons, Michael Rennie
|
Co-financed with Paramount Pictures; Based on stories by Somerset Maugham. Box office hit.
|
Sep 1950
|
Cage of Gold
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Balcon
|
Jean Simmons
|
|
Oct 1950
|
The Woman in Question
|
|
Anthony Asquith
|
|
Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde
|
|
1950
|
The Magnet
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon
|
Stephen Murray
|
|
Nov 1950
|
The Clouded Yellow
|
Carillon
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard
|
thriller
|
1950
|
Highly Dangerous
|
Two Cities
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
Margaret Lockwood
|
comedy thriller
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1951
|
The Adventurers
|
Mayflower
|
David MacDonald
|
Aubrey Baring
|
Jack Hawkins
|
Shot in South Africa
|
Jan 1951
|
Blackmailed
|
|
Marc Allegret
|
Harold Huth
|
Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling
|
|
Jan 1951
|
The Dark Man
|
Independent Artists
|
Jeffrey Dell
|
Julian Wintle
|
Edward Underdown
|
|
Feb 1951
|
Pool of London
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Balcon
|
Bonar Colleano
|
|
Mar 1951
|
The Browning Version
|
|
Anthony Asquith
|
|
Michael Redgrave
|
Based on play by Terence Rattigan
|
Jun 1951
|
White Corridors
|
|
Pat Jackson
|
|
Googie Withers
|
|
Jun 1951
|
The Lavender Hill Mob
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Balcon
|
Alec Guinness
|
One of biggest hits of the year
|
Jul 1951
|
Hotel Sahara
|
|
Ken Annakin
|
|
Peter Ustinov
|
WW2, comedy
|
Aug 1951
|
The Man in the White Suit
|
Ealing
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
Michael Balcon
|
Alec Guinness
|
One of biggest hits of the year
|
Sept 1951
|
Valley of the Eagles
|
|
Terence Young
|
Nat Bronstein
|
Jack Warner
|
|
Oct 1951
|
Appointment with Venus
|
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
David Niven
|
WW2
|
Nov 1951
|
High Treason
|
Conqueror
|
Roy Boulting
|
Paul Soskin
|
|
Sequel to Seven Days to Noon
|
Nov 1951
|
Where No Vultures Fly
|
Ealing
|
Harry Watt
|
Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman
|
Anthony Steel
|
Shot in Kenya, one of biggest hits of year
|
1951
|
Encore
|
Two Cities
|
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
|
Co-financed with Paramount; Based on stories by Somerset Maugham, one of biggest hits of year
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1952
|
His Excellency
|
|
|
|
|
|
1952
|
Secret People
|
Ealing
|
Thorold Dickinson
|
|
Valentina Cortese
|
|
1952
|
Hunted
|
Independent Artists
|
Charles Crichton
|
Julian Wintle
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
|
1952
|
The Card
|
|
Ronald Neame
|
|
Alec Guinness
|
|
Mar 1952
|
I Believe in You
|
Ealing
|
Michael Relph, Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph, Basil Dearden
|
Celia Johnson
|
|
May 1952
|
Curtain Up
|
|
Ralph Smart
|
|
|
|
Jun 1952
|
The Important of Being Earnest
|
Javelin
|
Anthony Asquith
|
|
Michael Redgrave
|
Based on play
|
Jul 1952
|
Something Money Can't Buy
|
|
Pat Jackson
|
Joseph Janni
|
Anthony Steel, Pat Roc
|
Comedy
|
Aug 1952
|
Penny Princess
|
|
Val Guest
|
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
|
1952
|
Mandy
|
Ealing
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman
|
Jack Hawkins, Phyllis Calvert
|
One of biggest hits of year
|
1952
|
Meet Me Tonight
|
|
|
|
|
Based on stories by Noël Coward
|
Sept 1952
|
The Planter's Wife
|
Pinnacle
|
Ken Annakin
|
John Stafford
|
Jack Hawkins, Claudette Colbert, Anthony Steel
|
Set in Malayan Emergency
|
1952
|
Venetian Bird
|
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
|
Richard Todd
|
|
Oct 1952
|
The Gentle Gunman
|
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Dirk Bogarde, John Mills
|
|
Oct 1952
|
It Started in Paradise
|
|
Compton Bennett
|
|
Jane Hylton
|
|
Nov 1952
|
Made in Heaven
|
Fanfare
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
George H. Brown
|
David Tomlinson, Petula Clark
|
Comedy
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1953
|
The Long Memory
|
|
Robert Hamer
|
Hugh Stewart
|
John Mills, John McCallum
|
|
Feb 1953
|
The Net
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
Phyllis Calvert, James Donald
|
|
Feb 1953
|
Top of the Form
|
British Filmmakers
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Paul Soskin
|
Ronald Shiner
|
|
Mar 1953
|
The Titfield Thunderbolt
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Truman
|
Stanley Holloway
|
Ealing comedy
|
Mar 1953
|
Street Corner
|
London Independent
|
Muriel Box
|
Sydney Box
|
Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan
|
Commercial failure
|
Mar 1953
|
Desperate Moment
|
Fanfare
|
Compton Bennett
|
George Brown
|
Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling
|
|
Apr 1953
|
The Final Test
|
|
Anthony Asquith
|
|
Robert Morley, Jack Warner
|
Based on play by Terence Rattigan; cricket related
|
Mar 1953
|
The Cruel Sea
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon, Leslie Norman
|
Jack Hawkins
|
WW2, biggest hit of year
|
Apr 1953
|
Turn the Key Softly
|
|
Jack Lee
|
Maurice Cowan
|
Yvonne Mitchell
|
|
May 1953
|
Genevieve
|
Rank
|
Henry Cornelius
|
Henry Cornelius
|
John Gregson, Kenneth More, Dinah Sheridan, Kay Kendall
|
One of biggest hits of year
|
Jun 1953
|
Malta Story
|
Theta
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
Peter De Sarigny
|
Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of year
|
Jul 1953
|
The Square Ring
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Jack Warner, Robert Beatty
|
Based on play by Ralph Petersen
|
Jul 1953
|
Wheel of Fate
|
|
Francis Searle
|
Francis Searle
|
Patric Doonan
|
|
Aug 1953
|
Always a Bride
|
Clarion
|
Ralph Smart
|
|
Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan
|
|
Nov 1953
|
A Day to Remember
|
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden
|
comedy
|
Oct 1953
|
Personal Affair
|
Two Cities
|
Anthony Pelissier
|
Anthony Darnborough
|
Gene Tierney
|
|
Dec 1953
|
Small Town Story
|
|
Montgomery Tully
|
|
Susan Shaw, Donald Houston
|
|
Nov 1953
|
Meet Mr. Lucifer
|
Ealing
|
Anthony Pelisser
|
Monja Danischewsky
|
Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins
|
comedy
|
Dec 1953
|
Trouble in Store
|
Two Cities
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Maurice Cowan
|
Norman Wisdom
|
Wisdom's first starring vehicle, one of biggest hits of 1954
|
Dec 1953
|
The Kidnappers
|
|
Philip Leacock
|
|
Jon Whiteley
|
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1954
|
The Million Pound Note
|
Group Film
|
Ronald Neame
|
|
Gregory Peck
|
Co‐financed with United Artists; Based on story by Mark Twain
|
Jan 1954
|
The Love Lottery
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Monja Danischewsky
|
David Niven, Peggy Cummins
|
|
Feb 1954
|
The Maggie
|
Ealing
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
Michael Balcon
|
Paul Douglas
|
Ealing comedy
|
Feb 1954
|
You Know What Sailors Are
|
Group Film
|
Ken Annakin
|
|
Akim Tamiroff
|
|
Feb 1954
|
Fast and Loose
|
Group Film
|
Gordon Parry
|
|
Stanley Holloway, Kay Kendall
|
|
Feb 1954
|
Star of My Night
|
|
Paul Dickson
|
|
Griffith Jones
|
|
Mar 1954
|
Doctor in the House
|
Group Film
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall
|
First "Doctor" movie, biggest hit of year
|
Mar 1954
|
West of Zanzibar
|
Ealing
|
Harry Watt
|
Leslie Norman
|
Anthony Steel
|
Shot in East Africa; sequel to Where No Vultures Fly
|
May 1954
|
Forbidden Cargo
|
London Independent
|
Harold French
|
Sydney Box
|
Nigel Patrick
|
|
May 1954
|
The Rainbow Jacket
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
|
|
1954
|
The Seekers
|
|
Ken Annakin
|
George Brown
|
Jack Hawkins
|
Set in New Zealand
|
Aug 1954
|
Up to His Neck
|
Group Film
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Ronald Shiner
|
comedy
|
Aug 1954
|
The Beachcomber
|
London Independent
|
Muriel Box
|
Sydney Box
|
Robert Newton
|
Remake of 1938 film
|
Aug 1954
|
The Young Lovers
|
Group Film
|
Anthony Asquith
|
Anthony Havelock-Allen
|
Odile Versois, David Knight
|
|
Sep 1954
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
|
Renato Castellani
|
|
Laurence Harvey
|
Based on play by Shakespeare; shot in Italy
|
Sep 1954
|
The Purple Plain
|
Two Cities
|
Robert Parrish
|
John Bryan
|
Gregory Peck
|
Co‐financed with United Artists; WW2
|
Oct 1954
|
Lease of Life
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Jack Rix
|
|
|
Nov 1954
|
Mad About Men
|
Group Film
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden
|
Sequel to Miranda
|
Nov 1954
|
The Divided Heart
|
Ealing
|
Charles Crichton
|
Michael Truman
|
Cornell Borchers
|
|
1954
|
One Good Turn
|
Two Cities
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Maurice Cowan
|
Norman Wisdom
|
comedy; one of biggest hits of 1955
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1955
|
To Paris with Love
|
Two Cities
|
Robert Hamer
|
Anthony Darnboeough
|
Alec Guinness
|
Shot in Paris
|
Jan 1955
|
Simba
|
Group Film
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
Peter de Sarigny
|
Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna
|
Set in Kenya during Mau Mau
|
Feb 1955
|
Out of the Clouds
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph, Eric Williams
|
Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty
|
Aeroplane drama
|
Mar 1955
|
As Long as They're Happy
|
Group Film
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
Raymond Stross
|
Jack Buchanan, Diana Dors
|
comedy
|
Mar 1955
|
The Night My Number Came Up
|
Ealing
|
Leslie Norman
|
Michael Balcon
|
Michael Redgrave
|
drama
|
Mar 1955
|
Above Us the Waves
|
Rank, London Independent
|
Ralph Thomas
|
William MacQuitty
|
John Mills, John Gregson
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of the year
|
Apr 1955
|
Passage Home
|
Group Film
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Julian Wintle
|
Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento
|
ship drama
|
Apr 1955
|
The Ship that Died of Shame
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Richard Attenborough
|
WW2
|
Jul 1955
|
Doctor at Sea
|
Group Film
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot
|
Doctor #2, one of biggest hits of the year
|
Aug 1955
|
Value for Money
|
Group Film
|
Ken Annakin
|
Sergei Nolbandov
|
John Gregson, Diana Dors
|
comedy
|
Aug 1955
|
The Woman for Joe
|
Group Film
|
George More O'Ferrall
|
Leslie Parkyn
|
Diane Cilento
|
|
Nov 1955
|
Man of the Moment
|
Group Film
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Wisdom
|
comedy
|
1955
|
Touch and Go
|
Ealing
|
Michael Truman
|
Michael Balcon
|
Jack Hawkins
|
|
1955
|
Simon and Laura
|
Group Film
|
Muriel Box
|
Teddy Baird
|
Peter Finch, Kay Kendall
|
Based on hit play
|
Dec 1955
|
An Alligator Named Daisy
|
Group Film
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
Raymond Stross
|
Donald Sinden, Diana Dors
|
comedy
|
Dec 1955
|
The Ladykillers
|
Ealing
|
Alexander Mackendrick
|
Michael Balcon
|
Alec Guinness
|
comedy
|
Dec 1955
|
All for Mary
|
Group Film
|
Wendy Toye
|
Paul Soskin
|
Nigel Patrick, Kathleen Harrison
|
comedy
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1956
|
Lost
|
Sydney Box Productions
|
Guy Green
|
Vivian Cox
|
David Farrar
|
thriller
|
Feb 1956
|
Jumping for Joy
|
Rank
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Raymond Stross
|
Frankie Howerd
|
comedy
|
Mar 1956
|
A Town Like Alice
|
Vic Films
|
Jack Lee
|
Joseph Janni
|
Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of year
|
Mar 1956
|
Who Done It?
|
Ealing
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph, Michael Balcon
|
Benny Hill, Belinda Lee
|
comedy
|
Mar 1956
|
The Black Tent
|
Rank
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
William MacQuitty
|
Anthony Steel, Donald Sinden
|
WW2, Shot in Libya
|
Mar 1956
|
The Feminine Touch
|
Ealing
|
Pat Jackson
|
Michael Balcon
|
Belinda Lee, George Baker
|
nurse drama
|
Jun 1956
|
The Long Arm
|
Ealing
|
Charles Frend
|
Michael Balcon
|
Jack Hawkins
|
police film
|
Jul 1956
|
Reach for the Sky
|
Angel Productions
|
Lewis Gilbert
|
Dan Angel
|
Kenneth More
|
WW2, biggest hit of year
|
Jun 1956
|
Jacqueline
|
George H. Brown
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
George H. Brown
|
John Gregson
|
|
Aug 1956
|
Eyewitness
|
Rank
|
Muriel Box
|
Sydney Box
|
Donald Sinden, Belinda Lee
|
thriller
|
Oct 1956
|
House of Secrets
|
Rank
|
Guy Green
|
Vivian Cox
|
Michael Craig
|
crime
|
Dec 1956
|
Checkpoint
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Anthony Steel, Stanley Baker
|
Shot in Italy
|
Oct 1956
|
The Battle of the River Plate
|
Archers
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Peter Finch, John Gregson
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of 1957, Royal Command film
|
Dec 1956
|
The Spanish Gardener
|
Rank
|
Philip Leacock
|
John Bryan
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
Shot in Spain, one of biggest hits of year
|
Nov 1956
|
Tiger in the Smoke
|
Rank
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Leslie Parkyn
|
Donald Sinden
|
|
Dec 1956
|
Up in the World
|
Rank
|
John Paddy Carstars
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Windom
|
comedy
|
Dec 1956
|
The Big Money
|
Rank
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Joseph Janni
|
Ian Carmichael, Belinda Lee
|
comedy, not given general release until 1958
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1957
|
Ill Met by Moonlight
|
Archers
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Powell & Pressberger
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of the year
|
1957
|
The Secret Place
|
Rank
|
Clive Donner
|
John Bryan
|
Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis
|
crime
|
1957
|
True as a Turtle
|
Rank
|
Wendy Toye
|
Peter De Sarigny
|
John Gregson
|
comedy
|
1957
|
Doctor at Large
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
Doctor #3, one of biggest hits of year
|
1957
|
High Tide at Noon
|
Rank
|
Philip Leacock
|
Julian Wintle
|
Betta St John
|
|
1957
|
The Crooked Sky
|
Luckwin, Tudor
|
Henry Cass
|
Henry Cass
|
Wayne Morris
|
crime
|
1957
|
Miracle in Soho
|
Rank
|
Julian Aymes
|
Emeric Pressberger
|
Belinda Lee, John Gregon
|
|
1957
|
Hell Drivers
|
Aqua
|
Cy Endfield
|
Benjamin Frisz
|
Stanley Baker
|
sea drama
|
1957
|
Manuela
|
Ivan Foxwell
|
Guy Hamilton
|
Ivan Foxwell
|
Trevor Howard
|
|
1957
|
Across the Bridge
|
IFP
|
Ken Annakin
|
John Stafford
|
Rod Steiger
|
Based on Graham Greene story
|
1957
|
Seven Thunders
|
Dial
|
Hugo Fregonese
|
Daniel Angel
|
Stephen Boyd
|
|
1957
|
Robbery Under Arms
|
Rank
|
Jack Lee
|
Joseph Janni
|
Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis
|
Shot in Australia
|
1957
|
Campbell's Kingdom
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker
|
Shot in Italy, set in Canada, one of biggest hits of year
|
1957
|
The One That Got Away
|
Rank
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
Julian Wintle
|
Hardy Kruger
|
WW2, one of biggest hits of the year
|
1957
|
Just My Luck
|
Rank
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Wisdom
|
comedy
|
1957
|
Dangerous Exile
|
Rank
|
Brian Desmond Hurst
|
George H Brown
|
Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee
|
French revolution
|
1957
|
The Naked Truth
|
Rank
|
Mario Zampi
|
Mario Zampi
|
Terry Thomas
|
comedy
|
1957
|
Windom's Way
|
Rank
|
Ronald Neame
|
John Bryan
|
Peter Finch
|
Set in Malayan Emergency, shot in Corsica
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1958
|
Violent Playground
|
Rank
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Stanley Baker, David McCallum
|
Juvenile delinquent film
|
Jan 1958
|
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
|
Rank
|
Joseph Losey
|
Maurice Cowan
|
Melina Mecouri, Keith Michell
|
|
Feb 1958
|
A Tale of Two Cities
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty E. Box
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
Based on novel by Charles Dickens
|
Feb 1958
|
Carve Her Name with Pride
|
Rank
|
Lewis Gilbert
|
Daniel Angel
|
Virginia McKenna
|
Based on true story, one of top 12 hits of year
|
Mar 1958
|
Rooney
|
Rank
|
George Pollock
|
George Brown
|
Barry Fitzgerald
|
comedy
|
March 1958
|
Innocent Sinners
|
Rank
|
Philip Leacock
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Flora Robson
|
|
April 1958
|
Heart of a Child
|
Beaconsfield
|
Clive Donner
|
Alfred Shaughnessy
|
Jean Anderson
|
|
Jul 1958
|
A Night to Remember
|
Rank
|
Roy Ward Baker
|
William MacQuitty
|
Kenneth More
|
Based on true story, most expensive British film
|
Aug 1958
|
Nor the Moon by Night
|
Rank
|
Ken Annakin
|
John Stafford
|
Michael Craig, Belinda Lee
|
Shot in South Africa
|
Aug 1958
|
Sea Fury
|
Aqua
|
Cy Endfield
|
Benjamin Fisz
|
Stanley Baker
|
Shot in Spain
|
Jun 1958
|
The Wind Cannot Read
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde
|
WW2 film, shot in India, one of biggest hits of year
|
Oct 1958
|
Rockets Galore
|
Rank
|
Michael Relph
|
Basil Dearden
|
Jeannie Carson
|
Sequel to Whiskey Galore
|
Sept 1958
|
Passionate Summer
|
Harper-Willoughby
|
Rudolph Carter
|
Kenneth Harper, George Willoughby
|
Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers
|
|
Nov 1958
|
Sea of Sand
|
Tempean
|
Guy Green
|
Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman
|
Richard Attenborough, Michael Craig, John Gregson
|
War movie
|
Nov 1958
|
Floods of Fear
|
Rank
|
Charles Crichton
|
Sydney Box
|
Howard Keel
|
|
Dec 1958
|
The Square Peg
|
Rank
|
John Paddy Carstairs
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Wisdom
|
Comedy, one of the most popular films of 1969
|
Dec 1958
|
Bachelor of Hearts
|
Independent Artists
|
Wolf Rilla
|
Vivian Cox
|
Hardy Kruger
|
Comedy
|
Film
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Jan 1959
|
The Captain's Table
|
Rank
|
Jack Lee
|
Joseph Janni
|
John Gregson
|
Comedy
|
Jan 1959
|
Operation Amsterdam
|
Rank
|
Michael McCarthy
|
Maurice Cowan
|
Peter Finch
|
War story, shot in Amsterdam
|
Feb 1959
|
Hidden Homicide
|
Luckwell Films
|
Anthony Young
|
Bill Luckwell, Derek Winn
|
Griffith Jones
|
|
Mar 1959
|
Too Many Crooks
|
Rank
|
Mario Zampi
|
Mario Zampi
|
Terry Thomas
|
Comedy
|
Mar 1959
|
The 39 Steps
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Kenneth More
|
Remake of 1935 film, one of biggest hits of year
|
Apr 1959
|
Whirlpool
|
Rank
|
Lewis Allen
|
George Pitcher
|
Juliette Greco
|
|
1959
|
Sapphire
|
Artna
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Nigel Patrick
|
Race drama, one of biggest hits of year
|
1959
|
The Heart of a Man
|
Wilcox-Neagle
|
Herbert Wilcox
|
Anna Neagle
|
Frankie Vaughan
|
|
Jul 1959
|
Ferry to Hong Kong
|
Rank, Pinewood
|
Lewis Gilbert
|
George Maynard
|
Orson Welles, Curt Jurgens
|
Filmed in Hong Kong, box office disaster
|
Aug 1959
|
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Michael Craig
|
Comedy
|
Aug 1959
|
Blind Date
|
Independent Artists, Sydney Box Assoc
|
Joseph Losey
|
David Deutsch
|
Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker
|
|
1959
|
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
|
Sydney Box Films, Four Star Assoc
|
Darcy Conyers
|
David Henley, Sydney Box
|
Brian Rix
|
comedy
|
1959
|
North West Frontier
|
Rank
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
Marcel Hellman
|
Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall
|
Shot in India, one of biggest hits of year
|
1959
|
SOS Pacific
|
Sydney Box, Remfield
|
Guy Green
|
John Nasht, Patrick Filmer-Sankey
|
Richard Attenborough
|
|
Dec 1959
|
Desert Mice
|
Welbeck
|
Michael Relph
|
Basil Dearden
|
Alfred Marks
|
comedy
|
Dec 1959
|
Follow a Star
|
Rank
|
Robert Asher
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Wisdom
|
|
1959
|
Tiger Bay
|
Independent Artists
|
J. Lee Thompson
|
John Hawkesworth
|
John Mills, Hayley Mills
|
Thriller
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
Mar 1960
|
Too Young to Love
|
Welbeck
|
Muriel Box
|
Herbert Smith
|
Pauline Hahn
|
teen social realism
|
Jan 1960
|
The Shakedown
|
Alliance Film
|
John Lemont
|
Norman Williams
|
Terence Morgan
|
|
1960
|
The Royal Ballet
|
|
|
|
|
|
Feb 1960
|
Conspiracy of Hearts
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Lili Palmer, Sylvia Syms
|
World War Two, one of the most popular films of the year
|
Nov 1960
|
Faces in the Dark
|
Welbeck
|
David Eady
|
Jon Penington
|
John Gregson, Mai Zetterling
|
|
Mar 1960
|
Your Money or Your Wife
|
Alliance Film
|
Anthony Simmons
|
Norman Williams
|
Donald Sinden
|
comedy
|
April 1960
|
The League of Gentlemen
|
Allied Film Makers
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Jack Hawkins
|
Heist story, one of biggest hits of the year
|
Apr 1960
|
Beyond the Curtain
|
Martin Films
|
Compton Bennett
|
John Martin
|
Richard Greene
|
|
May 1960
|
The Challenge
|
Alexandra
|
John Gilling
|
John Temple-smith
|
Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle
|
|
Jun 1960
|
Never Let Go
|
Independent Artists
|
John Guillermin
|
Peter de Sarigny
|
Richard Todd, Peter Sellers
|
|
Aug 1960
|
Make Mine Mink
|
Rank
|
Robert Asher
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Terry Thomas
|
comedy
|
1960
|
Snowball
|
Independent Artists
|
Pat Jackson
|
Leslie Parkyn, Julian Wintle
|
Gordon Jackson
|
crime
|
Jul 1960
|
Doctor in Love
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Michael Craig
|
Doctor series, biggest hit of 1960
|
Sep 1960
|
Piccadilly Third Stop
|
Ethiro-Alliance, Sydney Box Associates
|
Wolf Rilla
|
Norman Williams
|
Terence Morgan
|
|
Oct 1960
|
Man in the Moon
|
Allied Film Makers
|
Basil Dearden
|
Michael Relph
|
Kenneth More
|
Box office flop
|
Dec 1960
|
The Bulldog Breed
|
Rank
|
Robert Asher
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Norman Wisdom
|
Comedy
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1964
|
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
|
Allied Filmmakers
|
Bryan Forbes
|
Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough
|
Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough
|
Commercial failure
|
1964
|
The Beauty Jungle
|
Rank
|
Val Guest
|
Val Guest
|
Ian Hendry
|
|
1964
|
The High Bright Sun
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Dirk Bogarde, Susan Strasberg
|
Set in Cyprus; ast Thomas-Box-Bogarde collaboration; commercial failure
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1965
|
The Intelligence Men
|
|
Robert Asher
|
|
Morecambe and Wise
|
Spy spoof; one of 12 most popular films
|
1965
|
Be My Guest
|
|
Lance Comfort
|
Lance Comfort
|
David Hemmings
|
|
1965
|
The Ipcress File
|
Lowndes
|
Sidney Furie
|
Harry Saltzmann
|
Michael Caine
|
spy movie; led to 2 sequels
|
1965
|
The Heroes of Telemark
|
Benton
|
Anthony Mann
|
Benjamin Fisz
|
Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris
|
WW2 story; one of 15 most popular films of year
|
1965
|
Sky West and Crooked
|
John Mills
|
John Mills
|
Jack Hanbury
|
Hayley Mills, Ian McShane
|
|
1965
|
The Early Bird
|
|
Robert Asher
|
|
Norman Wisdom
|
comedy; one of 15 most popular films of year
|
1965
|
Dateline Diamonds
|
|
Jeremy Summers
|
|
The Small Faces
|
teen pop musical
|
1965
|
Doctor in Clover
|
Rank
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice
|
Doctor #6; one of 15 most popular films of year
|
1965
|
I Was Happy Here
|
Partisan/Rank
|
Desmond Davis
|
|
Sarah Miles
|
Based on story by Edna O'Brien; commercial failure
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1966
|
That Riviera Touch
|
|
Cliff Owen
|
Hugh Stewart
|
Morecambe & Wise
|
comedy; among top 15 films of 1966
|
1966
|
The Sandwich Man
|
Titan
|
Robert Hartford-Davis
|
|
Michael Bentine
|
|
1966
|
They're a Weird Mob
|
Williamson-Powell
|
Michael Powell
|
Michael Powell
|
Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty
|
Shot in Australia; massive hit in Aust, lost money
|
1966
|
The Trap
|
|
Sidney Hayers
|
George Brown
|
Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed
|
Shot in Canada
|
1966
|
Romeo and Juliet
|
|
Paul Czinner
|
|
Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn
|
Film of ballet
|
1966
|
Press for Time
|
|
Robert Asher
|
|
Norman Wisdom
|
comedy
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1969
|
Some Girls Do
|
Rank/Ashdown
|
Ralph Thomas
|
Betty Box
|
Richard Johnson
|
Second Bulldog Drummond film
|
1969
|
Ring of Bright Water
|
Palomar/Rank
|
Jack Couffer
|
Joseph Strick
|
Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
|
Made a loss
|
1969
|
Carry On Camping
|
|
Gerald Thomas
|
Peter Rogers
|
Sid James, Kenneth Williams
|
Carry On #17; biggest hit of 1969
|
1969
|
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
|
Rank/National General
|
Irving Lerner
|
Robert Sisk
|
Christopher Plummer
|
based on stage show
|
1969
|
Carry On Again Doctor
|
|
Gerald Thomas
|
Peter Rogers
|
Sid James, Kenneth Williams
|
Carry On #18
|
1969
|
Twinky aka Lola
|
|
Richard Donner
|
Clive Sharp
|
Susan George, Charles Bronson
|
|
1969
|
Mister Jericho
|
|
Sidney Hayers
|
Julian Wintle
|
|
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1975
|
I Don't Want to Be Born
|
|
Peter Sasdy
|
|
Joan Collins
|
Horror
|
1975
|
Carry On Behind
|
|
Gerald Thomas
|
Peter Rogers
|
Elke Sommer
|
Carry On #27
|
1975
|
The "Human" Factor
|
Eton/Avianca Features
|
Edward Dmytryk
|
Frank Avianca
|
George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone
|
suspense-thriller; UK Distribution only
|
1975
|
That Lucky Touch
|
|
Christopher Miles
|
|
Roger Moore, Susannah York
|
|
1976
|
Bugsy Malone
|
Goodtimes, RSO
|
Alan Parker
|
Alan Marshall
|
Scott Baio
|
gangster musical; minor hit
|
1976
|
Carry On England
|
|
Gerald Thomas
|
Peter Rogers
|
Kenneth Connor
|
Carry On #28
|
1977
|
Wombling Free
|
|
Lionel Jeffries
|
|
The Wombles
|
Based on TV series
|
Year
|
Title
|
Company
|
Director
|
Producer
|
Star
|
Notes
|
1979
|
The Human Factor
|
Sigma, Wheel
|
Otto Preminger
|
|
Nicol Williamson
|
Based on novel by Graham Greene, co-pro with UA
|
1979
|
That's Carry On
|
|
Gerald Thomas
|
Peter Rogers
|
Kenneth Williams
|
Carry On #29, compilation
|
1979
|
The Riddle of the Sands
|
Worldmark
|
Tony Maylarn
|
Drummond Challis
|
Michael York
|
based on novel by Erskine Childers, not financial success
|
1979
|
Tarka the Otter
|
|
David Cobham
|
David Cobham
|
|
Based on book by Henry Williamson
|
1979
|
The Lady Vanishes
|
Hammer
|
Anthony Page
|
Tom Sachs
|
Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd
|
Remake of 1938 film, Last film from Hammer for 29 years
|
1979
|
Eagle's Wing
|
|
Tony Harvey
|
Ben Arbeid
|
Martin Sheen
|
Western, shot in Mexico
|
- Falk, Quentin (1987). The golden gong : fifty years of the Rank Organisation, its films and its stars. Columbus Books.