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Anthony Asquith (9 November 1902 –20 February 1968) was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy (1948) and The Browning Version (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include Pygmalion (1938), French Without Tears (1940), The Way to the Stars (1945), and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Most Popular Anthony Asquith Trailers
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15 April 1943
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain.
09 February 1953
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists.
18 November 1943
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships.
01 September 1963
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
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.
01 October 1929
A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.
09 December 1954
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career.
08 May 1944
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke.
03 October 1950
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
09 April 1953
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia.
03 April 1961
Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee.
01 December 1941
The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".
06 September 1941
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
01 January 1943
An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier.
19 April 1941
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
04 February 1941
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps.
24 August 1954
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage.
19 July 1962
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair.
01 February 1947
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
01 July 1928
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station.
15 May 1935
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War.
17 June 1933
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
26 April 1936
A educational drama about Tuberculosis.
05 October 1932
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
06 April 1951
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health.
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.
02 February 1940
It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
28 April 1940
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to search for her husband, a British soldier who was fighting in France and who may be among the troops waiting to be rescued.
01 February 1933
A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
02 June 1952
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing.
23 August 1934
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family.
03 March 1939
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
31 December 1964
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present.
01 February 1956
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.
24 August 1942
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people.
01 March 1929
A prince in disguise saves a runaway princess from becoming a forger's dupe.
01 December 1963
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beautn
01 January 1933
Anthony Asquith’s advert for Stork Margarine.
09 November 1960
A documentary about noted British director Anthony Asquith, including clips from his films and interviews with his colleagues and contemporaries.
18 October 1960
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
05 September 1927
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
01 January 1957
George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.
10 December 1931
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
19 January 1944
An Englishman and Frenchman sharing a hotel room discover their children are fighting on the same side, French Resistance and R.
02 March 1931
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
25 July 1958
A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of double-crossing France by selling out radio operators to the Nazis.
23 December 1934
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha.
01 January 1959
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
06 February 1928
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
23 October 1959
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home.
