The best Frank Cellier’s movies

Frank Cellier

Frank Cellier

23/02/1884- 27/09/1948
Today we present the best Frank Cellier’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 Frank Cellier’s movies.
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The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps
7.6/10
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed -- with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as "The 39 Steps."

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
6.7/10
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.

The Clairvoyant

The Clairvoyant
6.6/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 07/06/1935
  • Character: MacGregor (uncredited)
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

Love on the Dole

Love on the Dole
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/06/1941
  • Character: Sam Grundy
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Easy Money

Easy Money
6/10
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins

The Man Who Changed His Mind

The Man Who Changed His Mind
6.6/10
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/09/1936
  • Character: Henry VIII
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Quiet Wedding

Quiet Wedding
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/04/1941
  • Character: William Frederick Davenport Chaytor
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone
5.6/10
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

The Fire Raisers

The Fire Raisers
5.9/10
Jim 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 ...

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

The Passing of the Third Floor Back
6.9/10
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

The Dictator

The Dictator
6.4/10
  • Genre: HistoryRomance
  • Release: 07/02/1935
  • Character: Sir Murray Keith
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.

Sixty Glorious Years

Sixty Glorious Years
6.4/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Lord Derby
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

The Big Blockade

The Big Blockade
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/01/1942
  • Character: Schneider
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

The Magic Bow

The Magic Bow
6/10
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.

The Blind Goddess

The Blind Goddess
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/09/1948
  • Character: The Judge
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael Dennison of having diverted public funds for his own use.

Give Us the Moon

Give Us the Moon
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 31/07/1944
  • Character: Pyke
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).

The Ware Case

The Ware Case
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 02/12/1938
  • Character: Skinner - the Jeweler
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Ships with Wings

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

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S.
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1937
  • Character: Regimental Sergeant-Major Briggs
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.

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