7 Movies Directed by Anthony Asquith

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-03-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (5646 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

George Bernard Shaw (play)

George Bernard Shaw (scenario and dialogue)

W.P. Lipscomb (scenario)

Cecil Lewis (scenario)

Fullplot:

The snobbish & intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.

The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-06-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

117 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (713 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Terence Rattigan (play)

Terence Rattigan (screenplay)

Anatole de Grunwald (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Edwardian England, a thirteen year-old cadet, Ronnie Winslow, is expelled from the naval academy at Osborne for stealing a seven shilling postal order. His father and sister become obsessed with proving his innocence at any cost to themselves, and turn the case into a national cause celebre.

The Browning Version

The Browning Version

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-04-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (3109 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Terence Rattigan (by)

Terence Rattigan (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Andrew Crocker-Harris, a classic teacher in a British school, is a man hounded by a heart ailment, and by his wife's disloyalty, who is pursuing a science teacher. He has lost his feeling for the emotions of others and his understanding of the boys he is there to teach.

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-10-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (3877 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.

Orders to Kill

Orders to Kill

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-07-25

Languages:

English, French, German

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (183 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

DramaWar

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Dehn

Donald Downes (novel)

George St. George

Fullplot:

American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2282 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead, must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company. Max Buba, a film mogul traveling with starlet Gloria Gritti, must get out of England immediately or face ruinous British income tax. The Duchess of Brighton has taken a job as a hostess at an American holiday resort, thinking she will be able to keep her family estate on her new income. Fog descends and blurs the future for them all, forced now to wait in the airport hotel for morning and fair weather.

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-05-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

122 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (2136 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Fullplot:

Three stories about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce: **First purchased by the Marquess of Frinton for his wife as a belated anniversary present, the Marchiness finds her own use for the vehicle - one which prompts her husband to sell the car in disgust. **Gangster Paolo Maltese's moll, Mae, thinks the Rolls is a "classy" car in which to tour Paolo's home town in Italy. When Paolo is called away to the States to finish some "business", a bored Mae takes the Rolls on a spin through the country, enjoying both the sights and the handsome Italian photographer who crosses her path. **By the outbreak of World War II, the car has come into the possession of socialite Gerda Millet. While on her way to visit Yugoslavian royalty, Gerda and the Rolls become (at first) unwitting and then (eventually) most willing participants in the Yugoslavian fight.

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