The best Edward Chapman’s drama movies

Edward Chapman

Edward Chapman

13/10/1901- 09/08/1977
Today we present the best Edward Chapman’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Edward Chapman’s movies.
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Night and the City

Night and the City
7.9/10
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. His latest ploy, promoting an aging Greek wrestler, goes awry when the wrestler dies and everyone points the finger at Harry. Hiding out in a riverfront barge, Harry sees his grand ambitions spiral into a nightmare of fear and desperation as the underworld closes in.

Things to Come

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.

The Card

The Card
7/10
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

Convoy

Convoy
6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 28/09/1940
  • Character: Captain Eckersley
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

The Citadel

The Citadel
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1938
  • Character: Joe Morgan
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

Rembrandt

Rembrandt
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/11/1936
  • Character: Fabrizius
This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/05/1941
  • Character: Mr. Blenkinsop
Third and final film in the series of ‘Inspector Hornleigh’ comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.

The Magic Box

The Magic Box
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1952
  • Character: Father in Family Group
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/06/1930
  • Character: Captain Boyle
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.

The Skin Game

The Skin Game
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/02/1931
  • Character: Dawker
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 25/11/1947
  • Character: George Sandigate
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Caste

Caste
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1930
  • Character: Sam Gerridge
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.

Mandy

Mandy
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/07/1952
  • Character: Ackland
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.

Poison Pen

Poison Pen
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/07/1939
  • Character: Len Griffin
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

The Proud Valley

The Proud Valley
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/04/1940
  • Character: Dick Parry
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/05/1960
  • Character: Marquis of Queensberry
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

The Man Who Haunted Himself

The Man Who Haunted Himself
6.4/10
Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.

Ships with Wings

Ships with Wings
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 10/11/1941
  • Character: Papadopoulos
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.

The October Man

The October Man
7/10
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Man on the Run

Man on the Run
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 20/05/1949
  • Character: Chief Inspector Mitchell
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.

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