Acting
Trefor Jones
Acting credits
6.6This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.
The Great Mr Handel
1942
10.0Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
The Queen's Affair
1934
7.5Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Glamorous Night
1937
Biopic of Robbie Burns with a lot of Scottish singing. Heavy on narrative.
Comin' Thro the Rye
1947
NRThe Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
Life of St. Paul
1938
An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process.
Old Roses
1935
6.6Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
All Over the Town
1949