80% (3) Intermezzo: A Love Story 70 min, APPROVED, [Romance, Drama] [Gregory Ratoff] [28 Feb 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, Metacritic: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Edna Best, Ingrid Bergman, John Halliday, Leslie Howard
Writer: George O'Neil (screen play), Gösta Stevens (original story), Gustaf Molander (original story)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Rotten Tomatoes: The love of a violinist (Leslie Howard) for his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman). Thomas: John Halliday. Margit: Edna Best. Ann Marie: Ann Todd. Charles: Cecil Kellaway. Greta: Enid Bennett. Eric: Douglas Scott. Emma: Eleanor Wesselhoeft. Glossy David Selznick production. Directed by Gregory Ratoff.
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89% (2) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 104 min, Not Rated, [Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller] [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] [08 Aug 1947]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 79%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Edna Best, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Rex Harrison
Writer: Philip Dunne (screen play), R.A. Dick (from the novel by)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long devoted maid Martha. Despite the rental agent trying to dissuade her, Lucy decides to rent Gull Cottage at Whitecliff-by-the-Sea. She learns first hand before she makes the decision the rental agent's hesitance is because the cottage is haunted, supposedly by its now deceased former owner, seaman Captain Daniel Gregg. After she moves in, she does meet the spirit of Captain Gregg face-to-face. Because she refuses to be scared away by his presence, the two come to an understanding, including that he will not make his presence known to Anna. As time progresses, the two develop a friendship and a bond. Despite his statements to her that she needs to live her life including finding another husband, Daniel seems not to approve of any of the men that enter her life, including the most serious, children's author Miles Fairley. Because of his feelings for her, Daniel eventually has to decide if being a part of her life is more a benefit or hindrance to her in carrying on with the living, regardless of perhaps not being able to carry out his initial goal of realizing his vision for Gull Cottage if he leaves.
Rotten Tomatoes: Based on R.A. Dick's novel, this film is a romantic fantasy about a widow who moves into a reportedly haunted cottage on the English seaside. Shortly after she arrives, she is indeed haunted by the ghost of a sea captain. Though their relationship is antagonistic at first, the two become friends.
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78% (2) The Man Who Knew Too Much 75 min, Not Rated, [Crime, Mystery, Thriller] [Alfred Hitchcock] [15 Apr 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination.
Actors: Edna Best, Frank Vosper, Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre
Writer: Charles Bennett (by), D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (by), Edwin Greenwood (scenario), A.R. Rawlinson (scenario), Emlyn Williams (additional dialogue)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, German, Italian, French Country: UK
Plot: While holidaying in Switzerland, Lawrence and his wife Jill are asked by a dying friend, Louis Bernard, to get information hidden in his room to the British Consulate. They get the information, but when they deny having it, their daughter Betty is kidnapped. It turns out that Louis was a Foreign Office spy and the information has to do with the assassination of a foreign dignitary. Having managed to trace his daughter's kidnappers back to London, Lawrence learns that the assassination will take place during a concert at the Albert Hall. It is left to Jill, however, to stop the assassination.
Rotten Tomatoes: While vacationing in Switzerland, Britons Leslie Banks and Edna Best befriend jovial Frenchman Pierre Fresnay. Not long afterward, Fresnay is murdered. He whispers a secret in Banks' ear before expiring. This is witnessed by several sinister foreign agents, who kidnap Banks' daughter to keep him from revealing what he knows.
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71% (1) A Dispatch from Reuter's 90 min, APPROVED, [Biography, Drama] [William Dieterle] [19 Oct 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: Albert Bassermann, Eddie Albert, Edna Best, Edward G. Robinson
Writer: Milton Krims (screen play), Valentine Williams (from a story by), Wolfgang Wilhelm (from a story by)
External Links: Wikipedia IMDb Language: English Country: USA
Plot: Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
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63% (1) Escape! 70 min, [Crime, Drama] [Basil Dean] [01 Sep 1930]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 63%, External Reviews
Actors: Edna Best, Gerald du Maurier, Gordon Harker, Horace Hodges
Writer: Basil Dean (scenario), John Galsworthy (dialogue), John Galsworthy (play)
External Links: IMDb Language: English Country: UK
Plot: A convict escapes from a prison.
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