The Conquest of the Air
This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.
Casts & Crew
Frederick Culley
Laurence Olivier
Franklin Dyall
Henry Victor
Hay Petrie
John Turnbull
Charles Lefeaux
Bryan Powley
Alan Wheatley
John Abbott
Charles Frend
Edward Ashley
Italo Balbo
Memo Benassi
Denville Bond
Tom Campbell Black
Charles Carrett
Andrea Checchi
Arthur Clouston
Paul Codos
Bryan Coleman
Derrick De Marney
Amelia Earhart
Don Gemmell
Cameron Hall
Henry Hallatt
Pearl Hay
Ronnie Hepworth
Charles Hickman
Bert Hinkler
Anthony Holles
David Horne
Amy Johnson
Charles Kingsford Smith
Betty Kirby-Green
Kenneth Kove
Charles A. Lindbergh
Peter Madden
Percy Marmont
David Nicol
Carlo Ninchi
Hilary Pritchard
Michael Rennie
Maurice Rossi
Roy Royston
C.W.A. Scott
Margaretta Scott
Leonard Shepherd
Dick Vernon
Ben Webster
Also Directed by Zoltan Korda
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. Tambul, the Sudanese leads them to an abandoned desert fortress where they hope to find water. Soon a detachment of German soldiers arrives and attempts to barter food for water, but Gunn and his followers refuse. When the Germans attack, Gunn leads his desert-weary men in a desperate battle, hoping that British reinforcements can arrive in time.
Storm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes from the 1939 film version stretched into CinemaScope, but exactly the same screenplay, almost line-for-line also then directed by Zoltan Korda as well as several pieces of music by the original composer Miklos Rozsa. It featured Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, James Robertson Justice, Mary Ure, Ian Carmichael, Michael Horden and Christopher Lee.[2] The film was shot on location in the Sudan.
Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Die elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes of the silent movie era. But Die elf Teufel strikes one today as a prophetic film. One of its early captions is "Football, the sport of the century ". We are shown a ball bathed in light like some sacred relic, and observe how, even in those early days, fans on the terraces wouldn't shy away from using their fists.
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
Also Directed by Alexander Esway
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A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
A young reporter bets a wealthy newspaperman that he can disappear for a month.