Search results for "Cedric Hardwicke"
The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize

The Power and the Prize
IMDb: 6.1
98

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

Genre: Drama
Sundown

Sundown

Sundown
IMDb: 5.7
90

Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

Genre: Drama, War
Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy
IMDb: 6.1
118

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal…

Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn

Nell Gwyn
IMDb: 6.4
85

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of…

Genre: History
Caribbean

Caribbean

Caribbean
IMDb: 6
91

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid…

Genre: Adventure
Wilson

Wilson

Wilson
IMDb: 6.4
154

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to…

The Ghoul

The Ghoul

The Ghoul
IMDb: 5.9
80

Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek…

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom
IMDb: 7.2
137

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as…

Genre: Drama
Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey
IMDb: 6.6
94

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides…

Genre: Drama
Bait

Bait

Bait
IMDb: 6
79

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them “in the act” and kill him…

Genre: Thriller
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater
IMDb: 7.2
118

The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes…

Genre: Drama
Rome Express

Rome Express

Rome Express
IMDb: 6.6
94

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Genre: Thriller
The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein

The Ghost of Frankenstein
IMDb: 6.2
67

Ygor discovers Frankenstein’s creation is still alive and brings him to the Doctor’s son, Ludwig, for help. Obsessed with restoring the monster to his full potential, Ludwig is unaware that…

Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone
IMDb: 7
101

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the…

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer

Wing and a Prayer
IMDb: 6.5
97

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Genre: Action, Drama, War
The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine

The Cross of Lorraine
IMDb: 6.6
90

French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.

Genre: Drama, War
Tycoon

Tycoon

Tycoon
IMDb: 6.2
128

Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His task is complicated, and his ethics are compromised, when he falls in love…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia
IMDb: 6.2
116

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England….

Genre: Drama, History, War
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
IMDb: 6.6
106

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1912 mechanic, to Arthurian Britain, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use…

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama
IMDb: 7.9
134

Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads Charles Dickens to the family…

Genre: Drama, Family
The White Tower

The White Tower

The White Tower
IMDb: 6
98

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

Genre: Adventure
The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down

The Moon Is Down
IMDb: 6.9
90

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

Genre: Drama
Things to Come

Things to Come

Things to Come
IMDb: 6.7
100

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp

Becky Sharp
IMDb: 5.9
84

The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s book “Vanity Fair”, the film looks at the English…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent

Invisible Agent
IMDb: 6.1
81

The Invisible Man’s grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.

Lured

Lured

Lured
IMDb: 7
102

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
IMDb: 6.9
108

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Genre: Drama
The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy
IMDb: 7.6
117

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Genre: Drama
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
IMDb: 6.9
88

The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines

King Solomon’s Mines
IMDb: 6.3
80

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King…

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson

Baby Face Nelson
IMDb: 6.5
85

Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” (Mickey Rooney) robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll (Carolyn Jones).

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man Returns
IMDb: 6.5
81 min

The owner of a coal exploration performance, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, requires a medication to make him invisible, irrespective of its aspect effect: slow insanity.

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Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Five Weeks in a Balloon
IMDb: 5.8
101 min

Professor Fergusson intends to make aviation history by simply making his way over Africa through balloon. He intends to maintain uncharted lands in West Africa as evidence of his creations…

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Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.4
161 min

Having aided his brother King Edward IV accept the throne of England, the covetous hunchback Richard, Duke of York, plots to grab power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and discriminated against…

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Genre: History
Salome

Salome

Salome
IMDb: 5.9
103 min

From the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter needs John dead, however, Herod worries to damage him because…

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Genre: Drama
The Lodger

The Lodger

The Lodger
IMDb: 7.1
84 min

In Victorian era London, the people of a household with leased rooms upstairs dread that the new lodger will be Jack the Ripper.

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Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn
IMDb: 6.6
98 min

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities from his tranquil Norwegian fishing village, leaks into Britain and yields leading to a commando force from the oppressors.

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Genre: War
Suspicion

Suspicion

Suspicion
IMDb: 7.4
99 min

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne’er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though cautioned that Johnnie is hardly more than a fortune , Lina marries him anyhow and…

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Genre: Romance, Thriller
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
IMDb: 7.8
117 min

Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, has infatuated from the attractiveness of Esmeralda, a gypsy young woman. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo’s protege and bell-ringer of…

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Genre: Horror, Romance