David Lean
Director
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Sir Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles…
- WW2 drama contrasts the service lives of a destroyer crew with their memories of back home. Powerful film won an Oscar for writer, director and star…
- This Happy Breed (1944)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
- Another David Lean–Noel Coward collaboration, the pair who later made the fine BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here they turn their sensibilities to the…
- Blithe Spirit (1945)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Rex Harrison
- Novelist Rex Harrison jestingly arranges a seance, and inadvertently conjures up the ghost of his first wife, who then wittily haunts his new…
- Brief Encounter (1946)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Cyril Raymond…
- Controlled rendering of Noel Coward's touching story about a romance that evolves between two happily married strangers. This much loved British…
- Great Expectations (1946)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles…
- Esteemed treatment of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a young orphan aided by a mysterious benefactor brought major international success to the…
- Oliver Twist (1948)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh…
- Astonishing version of the Dicken's classic, notable for great atmosphere and Alec Guinness.
- Passionate Friends, The (1949)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ann Todd, Trevor Howard, Claude Rains
- A wistful Ann Todd divides her loyalty between a secure, older husband (Rains) and a free–spirited toff (Howard) in this rich, unrequited…
- Sound Barrier, The (1952)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick…
- Ralph Richardson excels as an aircraft manufacturer aiming to break the titular barrier with a newly developed jet, but exacting a bitter cost on his…
- Hobson's Choice (1953)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Charles Laughton
- Hard to take one's eyes off the maniacal acting of Charles Laughton in this Dickensian comic–drama, as a vulgar cobbler whose rebellious eldest…
- Summertime (Summer Madness) (1955)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
- Katharine Hepburn, middle–aged spinster, flees to Venice on vacation, only for the romance of the city – and a dark, handsome Italian catch…