Movies: Herbert Wilcox Productions

  • 1959
    The Lady is a Square

    The Lady is a Square (1959)

    The Lady is a Square

    5.81959HD

    Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young ...

    The Lady is a Square
  • 1949
    Maytime in Mayfair

    Maytime in Mayfair (1949)

    Maytime in Mayfair

    5.31949HD

    Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind an...

    Maytime in Mayfair
  • 1952
    Trent's Last Case

    Trent's Last Case (1952)

    Trent's Last Case

    5.41952HD

    When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private se...

    Trent's Last Case
  • 1952
    Derby Day

    Derby Day (1952)

    Derby Day

    6.51952HD

    Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class cou...

    Derby Day
  • 1958
    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    61958HD

    American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder....

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
  • 1951
    The Lady with a Lamp

    The Lady with a Lamp (1951)

    The Lady with a Lamp

    6.11951HD

    Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimea...

    The Lady with a Lamp
  • 1937
    Victoria the Great

    Victoria the Great (1937)

    Victoria the Great

    5.31937HD

    The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861....

    Victoria the Great
  • 1934
    Nell Gwyn

    Nell Gwyn (1934)

    Nell Gwyn

    6.61934HD

    King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, w...

    Nell Gwyn
  • 1958
    Wonderful Things

    Wonderful Things (1958)

    Wonderful Things

    51958HD

    Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds...

    Wonderful Things
  • 1946
    Piccadilly Incident

    Piccadilly Incident (1946)

    Piccadilly Incident

    6.21946HD

    A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son....

    Piccadilly Incident
  • 1936
    Limelight

    Limelight (1936)

    Limelight

    81936HD

    A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom....

    Limelight
  • 1937
    The Frog

    The Frog (1937)

    The Frog

    01937HD

    In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes. Wallace was one of the first British authors ...

    The Frog
  • 1932
    Good Night, Vienna

    Good Night, Vienna (1932)

    Good Night, Vienna

    01932HD

    Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a n...

    Good Night, Vienna
  • 1930
    Rookery Nook

    Rookery Nook (1930)

    Rookery Nook

    01930HD

    A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law....

    Rookery Nook
  • 1932
    Thark

    Thark (1932)

    Thark

    01932HD

    Mrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost....

    Thark
  • 1945
    I Live in Grosvenor Square

    I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)

    I Live in Grosvenor Square

    7.11945HD

    The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each oth...

    I Live in Grosvenor Square
  • 1942
    They Flew Alone

    They Flew Alone (1942)

    They Flew Alone

    61942HD

    The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy....

    They Flew Alone
  • 1935
    Escape Me Never

    Escape Me Never (1935)

    Escape Me Never

    5.51935HD

    Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif....

    Escape Me Never
  • 1930
    Wolves

    Wolves (1930)

    Wolves

    01930HD

    An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape...

    Wolves
  • 1953
    The Beggar's Opera

    The Beggar's Opera (1953)

    The Beggar's Opera

    4.91953HD

    Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar....

    The Beggar's Opera