Movies: Joan Dowling

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....

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...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was...

A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife....

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies....

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove...

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself....

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng....

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it....

When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret....

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman....

A miner, played by Scottish singer Hamish Menzies, meets a holidaying secretary on the Kent coast and love blossoms....