The best Ann Todd’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Ann Todd’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Ann Todd.
Things to Come
6.6/10
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Perfect Strangers
7.1/10
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
The Paradine Case
6.5/10
The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband. She hires married Anthony Keane as her lawyer and when he begins to fall in love with her, she encourages him.
Poison Pen
6.7/10
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
The Passionate Friends
7.3/10
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Time Without Pity
6.8/10
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Agnes, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec's father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son's name while battling "the bottle."
The Sound Barrier
6.7/10
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Madeleine
6.9/10
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
The Squeaker
6.1/10
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
So Evil My Love
6.9/10
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Daybreak
6.6/10
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
The Seventh Veil
6.7/10
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Danny Boy
5.3/10
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
7.8/10
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Ships with Wings
5.5/10
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930th style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Ninety Degrees in the Shade
6.8/10
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
The Water Gipsies
6.2/10
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
