Robert Newton
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-06-01
Locus Natus: Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK
Et ut:
Around the World in Eighty Days
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...
release : 1956.10.17popularis : 12.644
Oliver Twist
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....
release : 1948.06.28popularis : 15.472
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
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...
release : 1948.10.30popularis : 5.786
Fire Over England
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...
release : 1937.03.05popularis : 3.394
Long John Silver
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.
release : 1954.12.16popularis : 5.322
Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...
release : 1950.07.19popularis : 9.677
Jamaica Inn
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...
release : 1939.05.11popularis : 12.429
The Green Cockatoo
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks...
release : 1937.12.01popularis : 2.103
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...
release : 1939.02.01popularis : 2.695
Night Boat to Dublin
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
release : 1946.01.08popularis : 4.865
Obsession
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
release : 1949.08.03popularis : 7.814
The Desert Rats
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important...
release : 1953.05.20popularis : 8.415
Tom Brown's Schooldays
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his...
release : 1951.04.17popularis : 1.506
Odd Man Out
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
release : 1947.01.30popularis : 6.047
Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...
release : 1941.05.14popularis : 2.647
The High and the Mighty
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...
release : 1954.07.03popularis : 8.464
Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...
release : 1952.12.01popularis : 5.921
This Happy Breed
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....
release : 1944.05.28popularis : 4.574
Hatter's Castle
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle,...
release : 1942.02.02popularis : 1.904
Temptation Harbour
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...
release : 1947.02.27popularis : 1.471
They Flew Alone
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...
release : 1942.06.29popularis : 2.355
Waterfront
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...
release : 1950.07.26popularis : 3.63
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
release : 1952.12.24popularis : 7.736
Snowbound
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
release : 1948.03.23popularis : 1.411
Les Miserables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his...
release : 1952.08.14popularis : 7.951
Busman's Honeymoon
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...
release : 1940.07.22popularis : 2.561
The Squeaker
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...
release : 1937.11.11popularis : 2.438
Vessel of Wrath
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...
release : 1938.03.04popularis : 5.937
Soldiers Three
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
release : 1951.04.01popularis : 5.337
The Epic That Never Was
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
release : 1969.09.19popularis : 2.198
The Beachcomber
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...
release : 1954.08.10popularis : 1.709
Poison Pen
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
release : 1939.07.03popularis : 3.786
21 Days Together
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...
release : 1940.01.07popularis : 4.591
Gaslight
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 6.514
Hell's Cargo
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
release : 1939.12.16popularis : 1.907
Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...
release : 1937.01.05popularis : 5.664
Henry V
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
release : 1944.11.24popularis : 8.929
Channel Incident
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to...
release : 1940.04.28popularis : 1.795
Dark Journey
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of...
release : 1937.07.02popularis : 6.549