The best Margaretta Scott’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Margaretta Scott’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Margaretta Scott.
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.
Percy
4.5/10
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Landfall
6.6/10
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
The Scamp
6.5/10
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
The Conquest of the Air
6.3/10
This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.
Crescendo
5.2/10
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. She contacts his widow whose mental deterioration, precipitated by the death of her husband, manifests itself in psychotic dementia. The young woman's arrival triggers an obsessive desire to marry her crippled son to Susan, ensuring by this union that the genius of the father will be passed on to future generations.
Atlantic Ferry
6.1/10
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Murder Rap
7/10
An Englishman's home is his castle, and Wallie aims to prove it.
The Woman He Loved
6.2/10
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England.
The Man from Morocco
5.6/10
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Dirty Work
6/10
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
The Private Life of Don Juan
6.3/10
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Peg of Old Drury
5.6/10
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
5.6/10
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It clearly is a trap, but nothing will keep the good old Pimpernel from carrying out his mission. He is up against the usual clods and dolts, after all.
Adventure Story
6.1/10
The story of Alexander the Great.
Quiet Wedding
6.7/10
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Calling Paul Temple
6/10
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Girl in the News
6.8/10
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
The Last Man to Hang
5.9/10
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Counterblast
6/10
An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor, impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect the Germans in their planned germ warfare.
