Edmund Gwenn Movies

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester...

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their...

The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer,...

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker...

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he...

An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.

Shakespeare parody

'Rich man suspects wife loves poet.' (British Film Catalogue)