Production
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Born 1904-02-28 · Darlington, Durham, England, UK
Acting credits
NRA television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews in which the director explains his methods, the beginnings of his career, and his relationships with actors and actresses.
David Lean: A Self Portrait
1971
Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion.
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
1993
6.5Documentary about the making of David Lean's 1945 film "Brief Encounter".
A Profile of 'Brief Encounter'
2000
3.3Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.
The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
1996
NRDocumentary about the 1942 British film "In Which We Serve" directed by David Lean and Noël Coward.
A Profile of In Which We Serve
2000
Behind the camera
7.4Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet
1968
7.7Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Brief Encounter
1945
7.3In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Great Expectations
1946
7.1In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Ryan's Daughter
1970
7.0While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly complex love triangle with Ruth, his current wife of five years.
Blithe Spirit
1945
A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator.
Museum Mystery
1937
7.1A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
This Happy Breed
1944
8.0Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.
House Broken
1936
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935
7.2A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
Orders to Kill
1958
5.8When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
The Interrupted Journey
1949
6.2Penniless Blanche Fuller takes a job as a governess at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, who has a daughter she's fond of. But Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with steward Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
Blanche Fury
1948
A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
The Belles of St. Clements
1936
5.7Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
The Quare Fellow
1962
6.2A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
Up the Junction
1968
6.4A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
The Small Voice
1948
An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.
The Last Curtain
1937
6.1A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
The Young Lovers
1954
No synopsis available yet.
The Mad Hatters
1935
6.5Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Unpublished Story
1942
7.1Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Meet Me Tonight
1952
Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.
From the Four Corners
1941
6.5During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Shadow of the Eagle
1950
7.5A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Gentlemen's Agreement
1935