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Arthur Basil Radford (25 June 1897 – 20 October 1952) was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as one half of Charters and Caldicott, two cricket-obsessed Englishmen who appeared in several films from 1938 to 1949, most famously in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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20 April 1939
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
30 September 1942
Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II.
29 April 1946
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis.
07 August 1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
21 September 1936
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
20 September 1943
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
15 June 1942
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 information to Nazi spies.
26 September 1938
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals.
03 September 1940
Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence.
01 March 1934
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
24 January 1930
In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war.
11 May 1939
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast.
02 June 1949
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
20 July 1940
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council.
07 October 1938
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy.
25 October 1932
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train.
16 June 1949
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician.
28 August 1940
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted.
30 March 1939
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy.
09 September 1945
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare.
21 November 1935
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
30 December 1950
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yacht race.
17 February 1937
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
16 June 1945
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive.
26 October 1949
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory.
31 August 1940
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
12 January 1951
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes of curing diseases impervious to penicillin.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
01 June 1939
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country.
24 September 1948
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
31 October 1938
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana.
05 March 1937
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
01 June 1943
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts.
13 September 1933
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles.
21 October 1940
Robert Spencer is having an affair with his wife's friend Hilda. When a man approaches Hilda, proclaiming his love for Robert's wife Claire, Hilda tries to matchmake.
24 February 1940
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia.
22 March 1939
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
28 October 1946
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter.
01 March 1939
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters.
07 May 1951
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
22 September 1929
Freddie owns a failing old hotel. To attract new business he spreads the rumor that there's pirate treasure hidden somewhere in the building.
10 August 1942
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
20 May 1936
A Chinese missionary comes to England and helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D.
13 June 1942
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
12 October 1940
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
24 April 1950
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
01 April 1949
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos.
02 October 1939
A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.