The Great Directors: Michael Powell (The Magic Surrealist)
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- DirectorMichael PowellStarsJerry VernoRobert HolmesTracy HolmesA taxi driver becomes involved in a plot to kidnap Ruritanian child king Ludwig and, disguised as a countess, rescues the young king from the revolutionaries.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsStewart RomeJohn LongdenDorothy BoydBusiness tycoon F. X. Benedik claims he has been threatened by a mysterious stranger Boswell Marsh. When F. X. Benedik is found murdered. Tony takes over the business and tries to track down the mysterious Marsh.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsJerry VernoAnthony HollesEdgar NorfolkJerry Mason inherits a seaside hotel but discovers that a gang of robbers have buried their loot on the site where the hotel now stands.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsGarry MarshHope DaveyArthur StrattonWhen Frances discovers her stepfather dead in the library, she pays Peter Craven to help her hide the body. When the body is discovered, Frances is suspected of murder but Craven decides to find the real killer.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsJerry VernoJanet McGrewBen WeldenBert Gibbs becomes a Lord but agrees to pose as the fiance of a movie star to please his mother.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsTalbot O'FarrellRene RayJohn LongdenMops is a waitress. This is the (musical) story of a humble girl's rise to fame.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie BanksAnne GreyCarol GoodnerJim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie BanksCarol GoodnerFrank VosperDavid Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard (when we still built ships). The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsIan HunterNancy O'NeilPeter GawthorneWhile trying to impress a woman, a man stumbles upon an idea that would double the profits of gas stations. Being rebuffed by the woman's father, he takes his idea to a rival company, who hires him and runs his competition out of business.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsBarry CliftonPatricia HilliardGoogie WithersBookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsIan HunterClaire LuceBernard NedellAristocrat's inheritance issues. Marries heiress expecting wealth, but she's disinherited too. Cousin arrives, complicating their financial struggles further amid societal pressures.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsJudy GunnLouis HaywardDavid HutchesonMary Lee is the new head of a Chemistry Laboratory. Thompson and his work-mates are resentful of her appointment and try to make her fall in love with John in the hope that this will make her neglect her work.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsMalcolm KeenJane BaxterLeslie BanksA major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the Inspector isn't so sure ...
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsBinnie HaleGordon HarkerDonald CalthropA lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsCampbell GullanMarjorie CorbettGerald FieldingA bookmakers clerk, Grierson, finds himself in financial difficulties and forces his step-daughter to marry Nevern, a caddish song-writer, for his money. When she finds life unbearable with Nevern she decides to divorce him and marry Hardwicke, a newspaper reporter. Grierson schemes to murder Nevern in the hope that his step-daughter will inherit all his money and that she'll be generous towards him (not knowing he will be the murderer). After secretly building up what he thinks is alibi upon alibi, he commits what he believes to be the perfect crime, only for an incredible slip to prove his undoing.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsEsmond KnightMargaret LockwoodHenry MollisonCurley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsHugh WilliamsViola KeatsFrancis L. SullivanThe wife of a politician is found dead at a country inn, where she had been seen with the politician's secretary, Alan. He is the immediate suspect but has a valid alibi.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsPatric KnowlesNancy O'NeilHenry CaineA bankrupt publisher thinks all his troubles are over when he stumbles across a Brown Wallet containing 200 pounds. But he is implicated in the murder of his wealthy aunt ...
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsBeatrix ThomsonPatric KnowlesGlennis LorimerWhen an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance ...
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsHugh WilliamsJane BaxterRonald WardA young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsNiall MacGinnisBelle ChrystallJohn LaurieA way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonSebastian ShawA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelBrian Desmond HurstMichael PowellStarsMerle OberonRalph RichardsonJune DuprezA look at the current might of the Royal Air Force. Place - Great Britain, time - two months after the start of World War ll.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonHay PetrieEarly in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- DirectorLudwig BergerMichael PowellTim WhelanStarsConrad VeidtSabuJune DuprezAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.