Production
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Born — Died
1904-02-28 — 2003-01-11
Place of birth
Darlington, Durham, England, UK
Known for
Production
Credits
43 titles
Known for
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
6.9While 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
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
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
1990s · 2 titles
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
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
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
6.9While 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
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
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
10.0A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
This Man in Paris
1939
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
A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator.
Museum Mystery
1937
6.5During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Shadow of the Eagle
1950
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
7.9When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Take My Life
1947
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935
10.0Members 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
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
9.0Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty" with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn
An Evening With The Royal Ballet
1963
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
A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
The Belles of St. Clements
1936
7.5A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Gentlemen's Agreement
1935
5.3A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.
This Man Is News
1938
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
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
A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.
Badger’s Green
1934
One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie
The Scarab Murder Case
1936
No synopsis available yet.
Lucky Days
1935
6.8A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
The Price of Wisdom
1935
8.0A travelling film actor arrives in a small village and transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth", subsequently marrying his daughter. The film is currently impossible to watch as there is no known print available.
The Village Squire
1935
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
9.0Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.
The Lambeth Walk
1939
8.0Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.
House Broken
1936
9.0Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.
The Silent Battle
1939
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
Murder by Rope
1936
No synopsis available yet.
The Mad Hatters
1935
5.6A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Checkmate
1935
6.7Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
Once a Thief
1935



