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Victor Saville (25 September 1895, Birmingham, England – 8 May 1979, London) was an English film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962.
He produced his first film, Woman to Woman, with Michael Balcon in 1923, and on the back of its success produced pictures for the veteran director Maurice Elvey, including the classic British silent Hindle Wakes (1927). His first picture as director was The Arcadians (1927). In 1929 he and Balcon worked together again on a talkie remake of Woman to Woman for Balcon's company, Gainsborough Pictures. This time Saville directed it.
From 1931, as Gainsborough Pictures and the Gaumont British Picture Corporation joined forces, Saville produced a string of comedies, musicals and dramas for Gainsborough and Gaumont-British, including the popular Jessie Matthews pictures. In 1937, he left to set up his own production company, Victor Saville Productions, and made three pictures for Alexander Korda's London Films at Denham studios.
As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood.
When the war broke out in 1939, Saville was in America and was advised to remain there. He produced pictures in support of the war effort, such as The Mortal Storm and Forever and a Day (1943) (in which he worked for the last time with his former star Jessie Matthews), and in 1945 Tonight and Every Night, based on the history of the Windmill Theatre in London.
After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he was interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. He produced two final films in the 1960s, The Greengage Summer (1961), adapted from the novel of the same name, and Mix Me a Person (1962).
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06 December 1931
Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film Die Privatsekretärin, and retained many of the originals general characteristics.
15 June 1929
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front.
01 October 1927
'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
01 September 1927
'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
01 October 1941
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered.
26 May 1954
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze.
01 October 1927
'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalog)
05 January 1940
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
07 February 1935
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
08 November 1940
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
10 September 1952
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
01 May 1961
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
12 September 1927
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
01 November 1933
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road.
12 December 1942
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910.
31 October 1947
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
20 December 1954
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself.
22 July 1935
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
31 December 1947
The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a friendship with Effie, a young pregnant girl.
21 January 1943
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house.
04 September 1933
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British.
02 October 1931
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
14 August 1953
After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat.
28 July 1949
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
01 July 1929
A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.
28 July 1939
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
01 May 1932
Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family.
28 April 1955
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum.
21 July 1937
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
29 October 1931
A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child.
01 April 1943
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
01 June 1927
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.
07 November 1935
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend.
12 August 1941
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr.
09 May 1941
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
15 January 1947
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William.
01 August 1938
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.
20 June 1940
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
26 July 1932
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
07 December 1950
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
25 February 1930
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
30 November 1934
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
04 July 1946
An orphaned young boy is guided by his great-grandfather and strives to go to university to become a doctor.
02 July 1951
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
31 May 1943
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
01 November 1929
Take your seat for an Armistice concert by military bands playing a medley of songs commonly sung during WWI.
29 October 1938
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.
25 February 1937
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
05 May 1924
In Paris, a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.
01 April 1934
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding.
31 August 1962
Eighteen-year-old Harry Jukes is literally holding a smoking gun in his hand. His lawyer thinks he did it, but his psychiatrist disagrees -- and sets out to prove she is right.
01 August 1957
Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
28 February 1933
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
02 July 1937
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I.
06 May 1936
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page.
09 January 1945
An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.
23 February 1931
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
01 November 1929
While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry.
27 August 1928
The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas).
29 September 1930
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made.
