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- DirectorAnthony AsquithLeslie HowardStarsLeslie HowardWendy HillerWilfrid LawsonA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsRobert DonatCedric HardwickeBasil RadfordIn pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJean KentNigel PatrickAndrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveRichard WattisMichael DenisonWhen Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMichael RedgraveJohn MillsRosamund JohnThe wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsJohn MillsLouis BradfieldRonald MillarAll leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsRay MillandEllen DrewJanine DarceyThe love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsClive BrookDiana WynyardRaymond HuntleyHitler's doctor is gradually realizing that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start disappearing into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile, Dr. Karl decides to try to do something to counteract Nazi propaganda and, with the help of an engineer and a few friends, he sets up the Freedom Radio to hinder Nazi propaganda.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsMargaret LockwoodMarjorie FieldingA.E. MatthewsA young couple become engaged, but enjoy several comedic adventures before their wedding day.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEric PortmanPhyllis CalvertGriffith JonesDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLaurence OlivierPenelope Dudley-WardMarjorie FieldingIvan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons, and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend, rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins, and Russia is attacked by Germany.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPhyllis CalvertJames MasonWilfrid LawsonReturning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny witnesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsBarbara WhiteRonald SquireBrenda BruceLady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. On her way to marry her fiancé, she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsJean KentDirk BogardeJohn McCallumA woman is murdered, but she is seen in different ways by different people.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsJack WarnerRobert MorleyGeorge RelphSam Palmer is a cricketer about to play the final test match of his career. His schoolboy son Reggie is a budding poet who disappoints him by not attending the penultimate day's play. Unexpectedly, Reggie is invited to the home of poet and writer Alexander Whitehead. Reggie fears he will also miss the final day--and therefore Sam's last innings--but it turns out that Alexander is a cricket lover.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPhyllis CalvertJames DonaldRobert BeattyA secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project. The single-minded Heathly, much to his dismay and little to his credit, uncovers him when he chooses his co-pilot.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsOdile VersoisDavid KnightJoseph TomeltyThe Young Lovers is about a young couple - she is Eastern European and the daughter of a communist ambassador, he is in American code expert working for intelligence at the American Embassy in London. At the Covent Garden Opera, watching the Swan Lake ballet, they meet and fall in love and a problem immediately confronts them because they are from different sides of the Iron Curtain. They find their every move monitored by both sides. The course of true love is eventually blocked by bureaucracy, forcing hero and heroine to escape.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsDavid NivenMargaret LeightonNoelle MiddletonA court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsJosephine GriffinMarie LohrDavid KnightAn American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsEddie AlbertPaul MassieLillian GishAmerican agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie CaronDirk BogardeAlastair SimA single doctor about to be awarded a knighthood for his claim of curing tuberculosis is infatuated by a woman's beauty and charm, promising to save her husband's life, only to change his mind after discovering the man's immoral character.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsDirk BogardeOlivia de HavillandPaul MassieA shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsSophia LorenPeter SellersAlastair SimA millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsVirginia McKennaBill TraversPatrick McGoohanIn Sweden, a post-office employee who survives a deadly armed robbery is accused of cowardice by society and is torn by conflicting feelings.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie CaronDavid NivenJames Robertson JusticeAn English couple and a deposed ruler head for the border during a South American revolution.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonLouis JourdanAs fog delays departure for a group of travelers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsIngrid BergmanRex HarrisonShirley MacLaineAnthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan