Barnacle Bill 1957  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: All at Sea
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Alec Guinness, Percy Herbert, Irene Browne, Harold Goodwin, Maurice Denham, Victor Maddern, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Eric Pohlmann, Donald Pleasence, Allan Cuthbertson, Richard Wattis, George Rose, Mike Morgan, Harry Locke
Failing at his family's seafaring tradition because of seasickness, Captain William Horatio Ambrose (Alec Guinness) becomes landlocked and opens a seaside hotel and amusement park for sailors as his means to preserve the family's name. The resort is a huge success, but local citizens object to Ambrose's arcade games on the pier and attempt to destroy it. Fortunately for Ambrose, when his sailor friends come to his aid, a slapstick battle ensues, and Ambrose registers the pier as a cruise ship under a foreign flag. Now, his "ship" is no longer under the domain of land authorities, and the fun continues.
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Berkeley Square 1933 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Leslie Howard, Heather Angel, Valerie Taylor, Irene Browne, Beryl Mercer, Lionel Belmore, Alan Mowbray, Samuel S. Hinds, Olaf Hytten, David Torrence
Based on a successful Broadway play, this film represents the first movie in which time travel is featured. Leslie Howard plays the scientist who travels back in time to 1784 London where he enters the body of his ancestor.
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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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I'll Never Forget You 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
aka: The House in the Square
Man of Two Worlds
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Kathleen Byron, Raymond Huntley, Irene Browne, Felix Aylmer, Arthur Denton, Robert Atkins, Peter Drury
American nuclear physicist Peter Standish (Tyrone Power) is working in England and living in an 18th-century mansion he inherited from an ancestor. One rainy evening, Peter is strolling in the neighborhood when he is hit by lightening. He awakens transported back into the 18th century and is now his own ancestor. While "living" in the past, he meets and falls in love with his cousin Helen (Ann Blyth) and uses his scientific knowledge to help improve 18th-century living conditions. Another thunderstorm shoots Peter back to the 20th century, and he learns from old, family documents that Helen had died before ever marrying. Now his friend Roger (Michael Rennie) introduces him to his sister Martha (also played by Ann Blyth) who looks just like Helen, and Peter and Martha instantly fall in love. This film begins in black and white, and then switches to color when Peter awakens in the 18th century.
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 The Letter 1929  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean de Limur
Cast: Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne, Lady Tsen Mei, Kenneth Thomson, Tamaki Yoshiwara
Somerset Maugham's story (and play) has been filmed several times, and this was the first of the series. Leslie Crosbie (Jeanne Eagels) shoots a man and claims that he attempted to assault her. Leslie, being wealthy and reputable, should have no trouble in the ensuing trial. Then, her lawyer, Mr. Joyce (O.P. Heggie) gets his hands on "the" letter.
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Pygmalion 1938  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Director: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Cast: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Scott Sunderland, Marie Lohr, David Tree, Jean Cadell, Everley Gregg, Anthony Quayle, Irene Browne, Leueen MacGrath, Esme Percy, Iris Hoey, Patrick Macnee, Leo Genn
While nominated for five Academy Awards–including Best Actor (Lesley Howard), Actress (Wendy Hiller), and Picture–this film won the Oscar for Best Screenplay. George Bernard Shaw was the author of this classic story about the Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle (Hiller), and her mentor, Professor Henry Higgins (Howard), who bets that he can fool society and pass Eliza off as a "Lady." Later remade as the top musical "My Fair Lady."
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| 1. Barnacle Bill (1957)
aka: All at Sea
2. Berkeley Square (1933)
3. Cavalcade (1933)
4. Christopher Strong (1933)
5. I'll Never Forget You (1951)
aka: The House in the Square
aka: Man of Two Worlds
6. The Letter (1929)
7. Pygmalion (1938)
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