Movies: Joss Ambler

  • 1944
    A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale (1944)

    A Canterbury Tale

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    Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury....

    A Canterbury Tale
  • 1942
    The Next of Kin

    The Next of Kin (1942)

    The Next of Kin

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    Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable infor...

    The Next of Kin
  • 1943
    The Silver Fleet

    The Silver Fleet (1943)

    The Silver Fleet

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    Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis with...

    The Silver Fleet
  • 1940
    Contraband

    Contraband (1940)

    Contraband

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    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operatin...

    Contraband
  • 1956
    The Long Arm

    The Long Arm (1956)

    The Long Arm

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    Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue...

    The Long Arm
  • 1952
    Ghost Ship

    Ghost Ship (1952)

    Ghost Ship

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    Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted....

    Ghost Ship
  • 1947
    Mine Own Executioner

    Mine Own Executioner (1947)

    Mine Own Executioner

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    Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help....

    Mine Own Executioner
  • 1938
    The Citadel

    The Citadel (1938)

    The Citadel

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    Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he mov...

    The Citadel
  • 1944
    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House (1944)

    The Halfway House

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    A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year o...

    The Halfway House
  • 1942
    Penn of Pennsylvania

    Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)

    Penn of Pennsylvania

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    Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylv...

    Penn of Pennsylvania
  • 1939
    Come on George!

    Come on George! (1939)

    Come on George!

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    George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins...

    Come on George!
  • 1946
    The Years Between

    The Years Between (1946)

    The Years Between

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    Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her offi...

    The Years Between
  • 1941
    Atlantic Ferry

    Atlantic Ferry (1941)

    Atlantic Ferry

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    The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone....

    Atlantic Ferry
  • 1939
    Murder in Soho

    Murder in Soho (1939)

    Murder in Soho

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    A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband....

    Murder in Soho
  • 1950
    Her Favourite Husband

    Her Favourite Husband (1950)

    Her Favourite Husband

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    While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy....

    Her Favourite Husband
  • 1950
    The Magnet

    The Magnet (1950)

    The Magnet

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    A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero....

    The Magnet
  • 1945
    Read All About It

    Read All About It (1945)

    Read All About It

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    An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act....

    Read All About It
  • 1938
    The Claydon Treasure Mystery

    The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)

    The Claydon Treasure Mystery

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    "The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose ...

    The Claydon Treasure Mystery
  • 1945
    They Were Sisters

    They Were Sisters (1945)

    They Were Sisters

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    The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband....

    They Were Sisters
  • 1939
    Trouble Brewing

    Trouble Brewing (1939)

    Trouble Brewing

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    Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public orde...

    Trouble Brewing