Movies: Edward Lexy

  • 1938
    St. Martin's Lane

    St. Martin's Lane (1938)

    St. Martin's Lane

    7.21938HD

    On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. ...

    St. Martin's Lane
  • 1950
    The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

    The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)

    The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

    5.51950HD

    The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot...

    The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
  • 1948
    Blanche Fury

    Blanche Fury (1948)

    Blanche Fury

    6.01948HD

    Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, an...

    Blanche Fury
  • 1948
    The Winslow Boy

    The Winslow Boy (1948)

    The Winslow Boy

    6.91948HD

    In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial....

    The Winslow Boy
  • 1937
    Farewell Again

    Farewell Again (1937)

    Farewell Again

    51937HD

    Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try...

    Farewell Again
  • 1957
    The Rising of the Moon

    The Rising of the Moon (1957)

    The Rising of the Moon

    6.91957HD

    Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, ...

    The Rising of the Moon
  • 1940
    Convoy

    Convoy (1940)

    Convoy

    5.41940HD

    A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII....

    Convoy
  • 1947
    Captain Boycott

    Captain Boycott (1947)

    Captain Boycott

    6.51947HD

    Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger...

    Captain Boycott
  • 1937
    Street of Shadows

    Street of Shadows (1937)

    Street of Shadows

    71937HD

    A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer....

    Street of Shadows
  • 1951
    Smart Alec

    Smart Alec (1951)

    Smart Alec

    8.51951HD

    A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune....

    Smart Alec
  • 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
  • 1938
    South Riding

    South Riding (1938)

    South Riding

    6.21938HD

    Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people wor...

    South Riding
  • 1937
    Smash and Grab

    Smash and Grab (1937)

    Smash and Grab

    5.81937HD

    John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who bett...

    Smash and Grab
  • 1949
    For Them That Trespass

    For Them That Trespass (1949)

    For Them That Trespass

    5.21949HD

    In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arr...

    For Them That Trespass
  • 1948
    Good-Time Girl

    Good-Time Girl (1948)

    Good-Time Girl

    5.91948HD

    Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a...

    Good-Time Girl
  • 1955
    Where There's a Will

    Where There's a Will (1955)

    Where There's a Will

    6.41955HD

    A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown....

    Where There's a Will
  • 1939
    The Gang's All Here

    The Gang's All Here (1939)

    The Gang's All Here

    51939HD

    John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance C...

    The Gang's All Here
  • 1946
    School for Secrets

    School for Secrets (1946)

    School for Secrets

    6.51946HD

    Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been ov...

    School for Secrets
  • 1958
    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)

    The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

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    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
  • 1954
    Orders Are Orders

    Orders Are Orders (1954)

    Orders Are Orders

    6.41954HD

    An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors....

    Orders Are Orders