Cavalcade 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay, Billy Bevan
This film, an Oscar winner for Best Picture, is Noel Coward's story of the effects of World War I on the British Marryot family (Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook) over a 30 year period–before, during, and after the war. Frank Lloyd also won an Oscar for Best Director. A third Oscar was received for Art Direction.
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David Copperfield 1935  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Rathbone, Roland Young, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver
Mr. Mudstone (Basil Rathbone), Wikins Micawber (W.C. Fields), and Uriah Heap (Roland Young) are all there as David Copperfield starts out as a poor boy and grows up to be a wealthy man in London. The young David is played by Freddie Bartholomew, while Frank Lawton plays the older David.
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The Devil-Doll 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Henry B. Walthall, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont, Pedro de Cordoba, Rafaela Ottiano, Arthur Hohl
Lionel Barrymore plays a fugitive who, after escaping from prison, uses tiny "devil dolls" to avenge past actions against him.
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Gideon's Day 1958  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Gideon of Scotland Yard
Director: John Ford
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Cyril Cusack, Andrew Ray, James Hayter, Ronald Howard, John Marion-Crawford, Laurence Naismith, Derek Bond, Grizelda Harvey, Frank Lawton, John Loder, Miles Malleson
The activities in the life of Scotland Yard Inspector Gideon (Jack Hawkins) are followed as he investigates murders and robberies as part of his daily routine.
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The Invisible Ray 1936 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Beulah Bondi, Walter Kingsford, Nydia Westman, Georges Renavent, Frank Reicher, Paul Weigel
After being exposed to a radioactive meteor containing Radium X, research scientist Dr. Janos Rukh (Boris Karloff) discovers that his touch is enough to kill. With this knowledge, his intended victims are his wife and her lover.
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The Mill on the Floss 1937  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tim Whelan
Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Fay Compton, James Mason, Griffith Jones, Mary Clare, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer, Athene Seyler
This is the film adaptation of George Eliot's novel about two feuding families whose son and daughter fall in love with each other to the dismay of their relatives.
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A Night to Remember 1958 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, Michael Goodliffe, Frank Lawton, David McCallum, Jill Dixon, Honor Blackman, Alec McCowen, Ronald Allen, Anthony Bushell, Robert Ayres, John Cairney, Jane Downs, Kenneth Griffith, Ralph Michael
Based on Walter Lord's book, this is an excellent recreation of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The account was previously filmed five years earlier as "Titanic." While both films are good, this one is considered better with its attention to details of the disaster, using about 200 actors. Then, there is the 1997 Academy Award winner, which is great but not as historically accurate.
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The Rising of the Moon 1957   N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Cast: Tyrone Power, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jimmy O'Dea, Frank Lawton, Jack MacGowran, J.G. Devlin, Denis O'Dea, Donal Donnelly, Harold Goldblatt, Maureen Connell, Edward Lexy, Tony Quinn
The famous Abbey Players perform a trilogy of episodes: "Majesty of the Law," "A Minute's Wait," and "1921." 1 User Review
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| | 04/29/2009 | | A MUST SEE movie. Directed by John Ford, Irish cast, filmed in Ireland. Many of the same actors and sets as in The Quiet Man. I think this is the better of the two movies. |
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The Skin Game 1931 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, John Longden, C.V. France, Helen Haye, Phyllis Konstam, Frank Lawton, George Bancroft, Dora Gregory, Edward Chapman
Based on John Galworthy's play, this is the story of neighbors who cannot seem to get along. This was not one of Hitchcock's favorite films.
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Went the Day Well? 1942 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: 48 Hours
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney, Valerie Taylor, Elizabeth Allan, C.V. France, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, David Farrar, Harry Fowler, Edward Rigby, Thora Hird, Norman Pierce, Johnnie Schofield, Patricia Hayes
During World War II, German paratroopers, led by Nazi officer Ortier (Basil Sydney), disguise themselves as British soldiers and make contact with Fifth Columnist Oliver Wileford (Leslie Banks). They are welcomed into a British hamlet. Their plan is to disrupt Britain's radar network. However, the village residents catch onto the ruse, fight back gallantly, and the mission fails.
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The Winslow Boy 1948 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Marie Lohr, Frank Lawton, Ernest Thesiger, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Watling, Basil Radford, Wilfrid Hyde-White
When a young naval cadet is accused of stealing, his father stands behind him offering the best legal protection in the land. A great courtroom drama.
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| 1. Cavalcade (1933)
2. David Copperfield (1935)
3. The Devil-Doll (1936)
4. Gideon's Day (1958)
aka: Gideon of Scotland Yard
5. The Invisible Ray (1936)
6. The Mill on the Floss (1937)
7. A Night to Remember (1958)
8. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
9. The Skin Game (1931)
10. Went the Day Well? (1942)
aka: 48 Hours
11. The Winslow Boy (1948)
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