British films of the 1930s
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List of British films from the 1930s:
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[edit] 1930
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1930 | ||||||
| Elstree Calling | Alfred Hitchcock, Andre Charlot, Jack Hulbert, Paul Murray | Teddy Brown, Helen Burnell, Donald Calthrop | Musical revue | |||
| The Great Game | Jack Raymond | John Batten, Renee Clama | Sports | |||
| Juno and the Paycock | Alfred Hitchcock | Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill | Drama | |||
| Murder! | Alfred Hitchcock | Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring | Mystery/Thriller | |||
[edit] 1931
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1931 | ||||||
| Mary | Alfred Hitchcock | Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa | Mystery/Thriller | The German language version of Hitchcock's Murder! | ||
| Michael and Mary | Victor Saville | Herbert Marshall, Edna Best | Drama | |||
| Rich and Strange | Alfred Hitchcock | Henry Kendall, Joan Barry | Drama | |||
| The Skin Game | Alfred Hitchcock | Edmund Gwenn, Helen Haye | Drama | |||
[edit] 1932
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1932 | ||||||
| A Bill of Divorcement | George Cukor | John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn (in her first film role) | Drama | Based on 1921 play | ||
| Detective Lloyd | Henry MacRae, Ray Taylor | Jack Lloyd, Muriel Angelus | Drama | 12 part Movie serial | ||
| Men of Tomorrow | Zoltan Korda | Emlyn Williams, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon | Drama | |||
| Number Seventeen | Alfred Hitchcock | John Stuart, Anne Grey, Leon M. Lion | Crime | |||
[edit] 1933
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1933 | ||||||
| The Ghoul | T. Hayes Hunter | Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke | Horror | |||
| The Private Life of Henry VIII | Alexander Korda | Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester | Historical Drama | Academy Award for Best Actor (Laughton) | ||
[edit] 1934
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1934 | ||||||
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | Alfred Hitchcock | Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre | Spy/Thriller | |||
| Man of Aran | Robert J. Flaherty | Documentary | ||||
| Radio Parade of 1935 | Arthur B. Woods | Will Hay, Helen Chandler | Drama | |||
| Red Ensign | Michael Powell | Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper | Drama | |||
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Harlod Toung | Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon | Historical Adventures | |||
| Sing as We Go | Basil Dean | Gracie Fields, Stanley Holloway | Musical | |||
| Those Were The Days | Thomas Bentley | Will Hay, Iris Hoey, John Mills | Comedy | |||
| Waltzes from Vienna | Alfred Hitchcock | Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Fay Compton | Drama | |||
[edit] 1935
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1935 | ||||||
| The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll | Mystery | Number 4 in the BFI Top 100 British films | ||
| Crime Unlimited | Ralph Ince | Esmond Knight, Lilli Palmer | Crime thriller | |||
| Dandy Dick | William Beaudine | Will Hay, Nancy Burne | Comedy | |||
| Forever England | Walter Forde, Anthony Asquith | Betty Balfour, John Mills | World War I | |||
| The Ghost Goes West | René Clair | Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette | Comedy | |||
| Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn | Milton Rosmer | Tod Slaughter, Eric Portman | Horror | Based on the the Red Barn Murder | ||
| The Mystery of the Marie Celeste | Denison Clift | Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey | Mystery | |||
| Turn of the Tide | Norman Walker | John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson | Drama | |||
[edit] 1936
[edit] 1937
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1937 | ||||||
| The Edge of the World | Michael Powell | John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Finlay Currie | Drama | |||
| Elephant Boy | Zoltan Korda, Robert J. Flaherty | Sabu | Adventure | |||
| Fire Over England | William K. Howard | Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey | Drama | |||
| Good Morning, Boys | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Martita Hunt | Comedy | |||
| I, Claudius | Josef von Sternberg | Charles Laughton, Emlyn Williams, Merle Oberon | Drama | An uncompleted adaptation of Robert Graves novel. | ||
| Keep Fit | Anthony Kimmins | George Formby, Kay Walsh | Comedy | |||
| Knight Without Armour | Jacques Feyder | Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh | Drama | |||
| Oh, Mr Porter! | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt | Comedy | |||
| Victoria the Great | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook | Biopic | |||
| Windbag the Sailor | William Beaudine | Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt | Comedy | |||
| Young and Innocent | Alfred Hitchcock | Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney | Mystery | |||
[edit] 1938
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1938 | ||||||
| The Citadel | King Vidor | Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson | Drama | |||
| Convict 99 | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt | Comedy | |||
| The Divorce of Lady X | Tim Whelan | Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon | Romantic comedy | |||
| The Drum | Zoltan Korda | Sabu, Raymond Massey, Valerie Hobson | Adventure | |||
| Hey! Hey! USA! | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy | Comedy | |||
| It's in the Air | Anthony Kimmins | George Formby, Polly Ward | Comedy | |||
| The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, May Whitty | Mystery | Number 35 in the BFI Top 100 British films | ||
| The Loves of Madame Dubarry | Marcel Varnel | Gitta Alpar, Patrick Waddington | Drama/Romance | |||
| Old Bones of the River | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt | Comedy | |||
| Pygmalion | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson | Comedy | George Bernard Shaw's play | ||
| A Yank at Oxford | Jack Conway | Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan | Comedy | |||
[edit] 1939
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1939 | ||||||
| The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | Thorold Dickinson | Leslie Banks | Mystery | |||
| Ask a Policeman | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay | Comedy | |||
| The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | Ralph Richardson, John Clements | Adventure | |||
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Sam Wood | Robert Donat, Greer Garson | Drama | Number 72 in the BFI Top 100 British films. | ||
| Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams | Drama | |||
| Q Planes | Tim Whelan | Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson | World War II | |||
| The Spy in Black | Michael Powell | Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring | World War II | First collaboration between Powell and Pressburer | ||
| Trouble Brewing | Anthony Kimmins | George Formby, Googie Withers | Comedy | |||
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