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Around the World in Eighty Days

(1956)

Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

Runtime:

175 min

Director:

Michael Anderson

Cast:

David Niven, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Cantinflas, Charles Boyer

6.8

69%

N/A

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Oliver Twist

(1948)

Adventure, Drama, Family

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henc...

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

David Lean

Cast:

Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton

7.8

100%

84

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Odd Man Out

(1947)

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Carol Reed

Cast:

James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick, Kathleen Ryan

7.8

100%

N/A

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Treasure Island

(1950)

Adventure, Family

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Byron Haskin

Cast:

Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea

6.9

N/A

89

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Henry V

(1944)

Action, Drama, History

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Runtime:

137 min

Director:

Laurence Olivier

Cast:

Laurence Olivier, Renée Asherson, Ralph Truman, Ernest Thesiger, Frederick Cooper

7.1

100%

N/A

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The High and the Mighty

(1954)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.

Runtime:

147 min

Director:

William A. Wellman

Cast:

John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling

6.8

40%

N/A

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Jamaica Inn

(1939)

Adventure, Crime, Drama, History

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.

Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast:

Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie, Frederick Piper, Herbert Lomas

6.3

55%

N/A

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The Desert Rats

(1953)

Action, Adventure, Drama, War

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them

Runtime:

88 min

Director:

Robert Wise

Cast:

Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, Chips Rafferty

6.8

80%

N/A

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This Happy Breed

(1944)

Comedy, Drama, Family

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

David Lean

Cast:

Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Stanley Holloway

7.3

100%

N/A

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Fire Over England

(1937)

Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish...

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

William K. Howard

Cast:

Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh

6.5

N/A

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Obsession

(1949)

Crime, Thriller

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Cast:

Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Sally Gray, Naunton Wayne, James Harcourt

7.5

N/A

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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

(1948)

Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in kills a man and then flees. He hides out with the assistance of a nurse, Jane Wharton, who believes his story that the killing was an accident.

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

Norman Foster

Cast:

Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Aminta Dyne

6.8

N/A

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Major Barbara

(1941)

Comedy

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Runtime:

121 min

Director:

Gabriel Pascal

Cast:

Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Sybil Thorndike

7.0

86%

N/A

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Les Miserables

(1952)

Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years.

Runtime:

105 min

Director:

Lewis Milestone

Cast:

Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney

6.9

N/A

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Blackbeard, the Pirate

(1952)

Adventure

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Runtime:

99 min

6.1

N/A

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Long John Silver

(1954)

Action, Adventure

In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Byron Haskin

Cast:

Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor

5.8

N/A

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Androcles and the Lion

(1952)

Comedy

George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character act...

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Chester Erskine

Cast:

Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans

6.2

40%

N/A

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Busman's Honeymoon

(1940)

Comedy, Drama, Mystery

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

Runtime:

83 min

Director:

Arthur B. Woods

Cast:

Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton

6.3

N/A

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Tom Brown's Schooldays

(1951)

Drama

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.

Runtime:

93 min

Director:

Gordon Parry

Cast:

John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, John Forrest

7.2

N/A

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The Epic That Never Was

(1969)

Documentary

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Runtime:

74 min

Director:

Bill Duncalf

Cast:

Dirk Bogarde, Robert Graves, Josef von Sternberg, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson

7.7

N/A

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Hatter's Castle

(1942)

Drama

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear a...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Lance Comfort

Cast:

Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams, Henry Oscar

7.2

N/A

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Soldiers Three

(1951)

Adventure, Comedy, War

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Tay Garnett

Cast:

Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

6.0

N/A

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The Beachcomber

(1938)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, their motorboat breaks down, and they are marooned overnight on a small island.

Runtime:

92 min

Director:

Erich Pommer

Cast:

Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie, Eliot Makeham

7.0

N/A

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The Beachcomber

(1954)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him...

Runtime:

82 min

Director:

Muriel Box

Cast:

Glynis Johns, Robert Newton

6.3

N/A

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Waterfront Women

(1950)

Drama

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.

Runtime:

80 min

6.7

N/A

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Poison Pen

(1939)

Drama

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Runtime:

79 min

Director:

Paul L. Stein

Cast:

Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd, Geoffrey Toone, Reginald Tate

7.0

N/A

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The Squeaker

(1937)

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance

London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

Runtime:

77 min

Director:

William K. Howard

Cast:

Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni, Robert Newton

6.4

N/A

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Night Boat to Dublin

(1946)

Thriller

British intelligence officers (Robert Newton, Guy Middleton) head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Lawrence Huntington

Cast:

Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow, Herbert Lom

5.9

N/A

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Snowbound

(1948)

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

Runtime:

85 min

6.2

N/A

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The Green Cockatoo

(1937)

Crime, Drama

Song and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton, and both cops and the real killers are hot on their trail.

Runtime:

65 min

Director:

William Cameron Menzies

Cast:

John Mills, René Ray, Charles Oliver, Bruce Seton, Julian Vedey

6.0

N/A

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Temptation Harbour

(1947)

Crime, Drama

Robert Newton is the harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.

Runtime:

91 min

8.0

N/A

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Dead Men Are Dangerous

(1939)

Crime

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.

Runtime:

69 min

Director:

Harold French

Cast:

Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, John Warwick, Peter Gawthorne, Merle Tottenham

5.1

N/A

Hell's Cargo

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Hell's Cargo

(1939)

Adventure

Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.

Runtime:

79 min

5.2

N/A

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They Flew Alone

(1942)

Drama

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

Runtime:

94 min

N/A

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