21 Days 1940  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: 21 Days Together
Director: Basil Dean
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan, Hay Petrie, Robert Newton, Laurence Hanray, David Horne, Esme Percy, William Dewhurst
A couple (Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh) has just three weeks together before he plans to confess to a murder he committed in self-defense.
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Androcles and the Lion 1952  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Chester Erskine
Cast: Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Gardiner, Gene Lockhart, Alan Mowbray, Jim Backus
Based on George Bernard Shaw's satire, this is the story of a young Christian, Androcles (Alan Young), who is saved from certain death in the Coliseum because he has made friends with a lion.
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 Around the World in 80 Days 1956  G, 178 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Charles Boyer, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, John Gielgud
This Best Picture Oscar winner tells the story of Phineas Fogg (David Niven), the indomitable English gentleman, who bets the members of his club that he can circle the globe in less than 80 days. And the race is on as he and his valet, Passepartout (Cantinflas), meet all sorts of characters and adventures along the way. A real winner. Four other Academy Awards were received as well as three nominations, including Best Director.
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The Beachcomber 1954 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Muriel Box
Cast: Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Michael Hordern, Donald Pleasence, Tony Quinn, Paul Rogers, Ronald Lewis, Auric Lorand, Jean Rollins
Based on Somerset Maugham's story, this film's plot deals with a very proper missionary (Glynis Johns) who falls in love with a South Seas beach bum (Robert Newton).
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Busman's Honeymoon 1940 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: Haunted Honeymoon
Director: Arthur B. Woods
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton, Googie Withers, Frank Pettingell, Louise Hampton
Lord Peter Wimsey (Robert Montgomery), a noted criminologist, weds Harriet Vane (Constance Cummings), a well-known mystery writer. They get involved in solving a murder, which isn't how they planned on spending their honeymoon.
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Dark Journey 1937 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Robert Newton, William Dewhurst, Cecil Parker, Austin Trevor, Eliot Makeham
A meeting between spies–Von Marwitz (Conrad Veidt) and Madeleine (Vivien Leigh)–in Stockholm accelerates into a love affair, which complicates matters.
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The Desert Rats 1953 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Richard Burton, Robert Newton, Robert Douglas, Torin Thatcher, James Mason, Chips Rafferty, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Ben Wright, John O'Malley, John Alderson
Field Marshal Rommel (James Mason) led his "unstoppable" armored tank battalion across North Africa during World War II. This is the story about one successful resistance effort by Australian troops led by British Captain Mac Roberts (Richard Burton).
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Fire Over England 1937 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Raymond Massey, Robert Newton, James Mason, Tamara Desni, Henry Oscar, Laurence Hanray
While made in the 1930s, this film was not released in the United States until 1941 when England was trying to get America to enter the war in Europe. Based on the story of Britain's defeat of the Spanish Armada, the plot involves a British Naval officer (Laurence Olivier) who goes to Spain looking for identities of English traitors.
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Hatter's Castle 1942  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lance Comfort
Cast: Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Beatrice Varley, Henry Oscar, Ian Fleming, George Merritt, Brefni O'Rorke, Laurence Hanray
Based on A.J. Cronin's novel, this is the story of a poor man who tries to expand his horizons and gain social acceptance in the rigid British class system.
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Henry V 1944  N/R, 153 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Laurence Olivier
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Ernest Thesiger, Robert Helpmann, Ralph Truman, Griffith Jones, Morland Graham, Nicholas Hannen, Roy Emerton, Freda Jackson
No one can beat Sir Laurence Olivier when it comes to directing and acting in Shakespearean plays. In this film, he does both and scores a brilliant production hit. This version of "Henry V" centers on the 1415 battle of Agincourt where the English defeated the French. The film was nominated for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Actor. Olivier received an honorary Oscar for his achievement as actor, producer, and director for the film.
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 The High and the Mighty 1954 G, 147 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: John Wayne, Robert Newton, Robert Stack, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Jan Sterling, Phil Harris, Sidney Blackmer, Ann Doran, David Brian
Passengers' emotions rise to the surface when their airplane is in danger of crashing into the Pacific Ocean. All of the "Airplane" comedies resulted from this, the first airplane disaster film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score and had four other nominations, including Best Director and two for Supporting Actress (Jan Sterling and Claire Trevor).
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Jamaica Inn 1939 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Charles Laughton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie, Frederick Piper, Mervyn Johns, Wylie Watson
Sir Humphrey Pengalian (Charles Laughton) is a smuggler in Victorian England, and problems arise when Mary (Maureen O'Hara) discovers that her relatives are involved in shipwrecks.
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands 1948 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Blood on My Hands
Director: Norman Foster
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell, Jay Novello, Aminta Dyne, Reginald Sheffield, Leyland Hodgson, Grizelda Harvey, Colin Keith-Johnston
Escaping from the law after killing a man in a London pub, Bill Saunders (Burt Lancaster) seeks refuge with a very understanding Jane Warton (Joan Fontaine). Jane's hopes for their future together are dashed when Bill is blackmailed by Harry Carter (Robert Newton) into performing a criminal act.
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 Les Miserables 1952 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lewis Milestone
Cast: Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney, Cameron Mitchell, Elsa Lanchester, James Robertson Justice, Joseph Wiseman, Rhys Williams
The often-filmed Victor Hugo classic story is adequately presented in this adaptation, though much is cut (as evidenced by the length). Michael Rennie is cast as Jean Valjean, and Richard Newton plays his pursuer Javert. Three episodes are told: Valjean's arrest for stealing a loaf of bread and his imprisonment, Valjean's hounding by Javert after becoming mayor and adopting a girl (Debra Paget), and Javert's cessation of the pursuit of Valjean.
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Long John Silver 1954 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Lloyd Berrell, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor, Eric Reiman, Kit Taylor, Syd Chambers, John Brunskill, Harvey Adams
This film takes up where "Treasure Island" left off with Robert Newton remaining in the role of "Long John Silver." Once again, that infamous buccaneer is on the lookout for his pot of gold.
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Major Barbara 1941 N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, Stanley Holloway, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Torin Thatcher, Miles Malleson, Marie Lohr, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Walter Hudd, David Tree, Donald Calthrop
This film rendition of the intuitive play by George Bernard Shaw features Salvation Army officer Major Barbara (Wendy Hiller) as the young woman who rebels against her wealthy upbringing and opts to help those less fortunate. Love enters the picture in the person of an intellectual (Rex Harrison).
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Obsession 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: The Hidden Room
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne, Olga Lindo, Ronald Adam, James Harcourt, Betty Cooper, Roddy Hughes, Michael Balfour, Allan Jeayes, Russell Waters, Sam Kydd
London psychiatrist Dr. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton) traps American Bill Kronin (Phil Brown) in a cellar when he catches Kronin having an affair with his wife, Storm (Sally Gray). It appears to be a perfect crime because it is believed that Kronin simply disappeared. Meanwhile, Clive is preparing an acid bath to dispose of Bill's body after he kills him. But, once again, there is a flaw in the "perfect crime." This time, it is Storm's pet dog that follows Clive to the hiding place.
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Odd Man Out 1947 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Beatty, Denis O'Dea, Robert Newton, Dan O'Herlihy, William Hartnell, Fay Compton, Cyril Cusack, Eddie Byrne, Kitty Kirwan, Joseph Tomelty, Guy Rolfe, Geoffrey Keen
After breaking out of jail, IRA leader Johnny McQueen (James Mason) needs money to support his cause. He robs a bank but is wounded during the robbery, and he now finds himself trying to elude the police as he staggers through the back alleys of Belfast. Other IRA operatives and Johnny's girlfriend Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan) struggle to find him before it is too late, but sanctuary eludes him, and the police close in.
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Oliver Twist 1948 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure
Director: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, Henry Stephenson, Diana Dors, Mary Clare, Henry Edwards, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Amy Veness
This is a very good version of Charles Dickens' story about the inhumane world of apprenticeship in 19th-century England. Beginning with his being left at an orphanage as a baby and enduring a hard life at the orphanage, the story then continues to Oliver's (John Howard Davies) escape to the streets. Now, Oliver, under the watchful eye of his tutor, the cruel Fagin (Alec Guinness) becomes a pickpocket on London's streets where more problems follow–until good luck finally shines on Oliver.
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This Happy Breed 1944 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: David Lean
Cast: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley Holloway, Amy Veness, Alison Leggatt, Laurence Olivier, Eileen Erskine, John Blythe, Guy Verney, Betty Fleetwood, Merle Tottenham
Adapted from Noel Coward's play, this is the story of the defeats and victories of a British family during the 20-year period between World War I and World War II. The lower-class Gibbon family–father Frank (Robert Newton), mother Ethel (Celia Johnson), and two children Queenie and Reg (Kay Walsh and John Blythe)–move into a large Clapham house but find that it takes more than a house to make a family.
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Tom Brown's Schooldays 1951 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Parry
Cast: John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Byron, James Hayter, John Charlesworth, John Forrest, Michael Hordern, Max Bygraves, Francis De Wolff, Amy Veness, Brian Worth, Rachel Gurney, Michael Brennan
In this remake of Thomas Hughes' novel, John Howard Davies takes on the role of Tom Brown, a first-year student at Rugby School. Tom must deal with his new surroundings at boarding school and makes friends with East (John Charlesworth). Unfortunately, Tom and East must deal with bully Flashman (John Forrest) who adds stress to their lives. The new headmaster Dr. Arnold (Robert Newton) tries to deal with the problem but is ineffective–until matters rise to a head, and Dr. Arnold expels Flashman from Rugby.
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Treasure Island 1950 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure
Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Ralph Truman, Finlay Currie, John Laurie, Francis De Wolff, David Davies, Geoffrey Wilkinson, Geoffrey Keen, John Gregson, Andrew Blackett, William Devlin
Bobby Driscoll is delightful as young, cabin boy Jim Hawkins, whose treasure map is coveted by a band of pirates headed by one-legged Long John Silver (Robert Newton). Jim must contend with Long John Silver and the pirates who are also aboard the ship. A good Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.
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Vessel of Wrath 1938 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Beachcomber
Director: Erich Pommer
Cast: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Tyrone Guthrie, Robert Newton, Dolly Mollinger, Rosita Garcia, Eliot Makeham, D.A. Ward, J. Solomon
Husband and wife team Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester play the leads in this film, based on Somerset Maugham's story, about a missionary who reforms a beach bum in the Dutch East Indies.
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Waterfront 1951  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Waterfront Women
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw, Robin Netscher, Richard Burton, Kenneth Griffith, Olive Sloane, James Hayter, Charles Victor, Michael Brennan, Allan Jeayes
Fourteen years ago an alcoholic sailor (Robert Newton) left his pregnant wife and their two small children alone to survive in the Liverpool slums. Now he is still troubled, returns home, commits murder, and is visited in jail by his wife and their 14-year-old child.
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| 1. 21 Days (1940)
aka: 21 Days Together
2. Androcles and the Lion (1952)
3. Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
4. The Beachcomber (1954)
5. Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)
6. Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
aka: Haunted Honeymoon
7. Dark Journey (1937)
8. The Desert Rats (1953)
9. Fire Over England (1937)
10. Hatter's Castle (1942)
11. Henry V (1944)
12. The High and the Mighty (1954)
13. Jamaica Inn (1939)
14. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
aka: Blood on My Hands
15. Les Miserables (1952)
16. Long John Silver (1954)
17. Major Barbara (1941)
18. Obsession (1949)
aka: The Hidden Room
19. Odd Man Out (1947)
20. Oliver Twist (1948)
21. This Happy Breed (1944)
22. Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)
23. Treasure Island (1950)
24. Vessel of Wrath (1938)
aka: The Beachcomber
25. Waterfront (1951)
aka: Waterfront Women
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