121 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 1930s
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Escape to Glory
England The 1930sForget All The Action Pictures You Ever Saw... And Brace Yourself For A New Kind Of Thrill! β The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
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Under Your Hat
England π«π· France The 1930sIn pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
England The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1870s The 1880sAt The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! β A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
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Q Planes
England The 1930sAn eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
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Spies of the Air
England The 1930sSet just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
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Alexander's Ragtime Band
New York California England π«π· France The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sAn American Cavalcade! β Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
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Bank Holiday
England The 1930sA 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
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The Citadel
Wales England The 1930s The 1920sSecrets of a doctor as told by a doctor! β Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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A Yank at Oxford
England The 1930sThe Roving Romances Of A Two-Fisted American! β Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. After several scrapes with the college professors, and the wife of the local book seller, he becomes a hero when he joins the rowing club, and coxes the boat crew to beat Cambridge, in the annual boat race.
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Crackerjack
England The 1930sLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
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Another Dawn
England The 1930sLIPS ON LIPS with a thrill of love you'll never forget β Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancΓ©; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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The Ghost Goes West
Florida Scotland The 1930s The 18th CenturyThe most romantic ghost you've ever seen! β An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.
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Hyde Park Corner
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
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A Feather in Her Hat
England The 1920s The 1930sBEFORE YOU KISS AGAIN...SEE THE SWEETEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD β After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.
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Royal Cavalcade
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sMade in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life β from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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Red Ensign
Scotland The 1930sDavid Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum
New York England The 1930s The 1920sWarner Bros.' Supreme Thriller β The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
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Cavalcade
England The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sTHE PICTURE OF THE GENERATION! β A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic and the Great War.
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Berkeley Square
England The 1930s The 18th CenturyA young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Bosko's Picture Show
Nevada California England π©πͺ Germany π¨π Switzerland The 1930s The 1890sBosko runs a movie theater that shows a wacky newsreel with Jack Dumpsey, a slapstick short from Haurel and Lardy, and a turn-of-the-century melodrama starring Honey.
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Looking Forward
England The 1930sYour HEART KNOWS when a picture is GREAT! β Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.