Anatole de Grunwald

Anatole de Grunwald

Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Writer)

Find more information about Anatole de Grunwald at The Internet Movie Database

Edit Biography

Titles you haven't rated - Writer (25)

    Cottage to Let
    A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that the landowner is also a key British military inventor. For a start, the butler is obviously a Scotland Yard flatfoot. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Way to the Stars
    Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive... (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Spitfire
    By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a holiday in Germany shortly after Hitler assumes power convinces him that it is vital to design a completely new type of fighter plane and that sooner or later Britain's very survival may depend on what he comes to call the Spitfire. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Doctor\
    Mrs. Dubedat loves and idolizes her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only so many patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis' artistic talents make him worthy. But when he and several colleague meet Louis, they discover that he is in fact a smooth-talking money-grabbing scoundrel. They also learn that he has another wife, whom he has abandoned. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Libel
    A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interviews with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney. The Canadian, the baronet, and the actor were all prisoners in the same German camp during the war and escaped together. One of them disappeared during the escape. Was he Sir Mark or Welney? (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Holly and the Ivy
    A heartwarming tale of an English minister and his family reunited at Christmas time. Their story includes a remembrance of their WWII trials. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Major Barbara
    A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Pimpernel Smith
    This is a modernized version of the Scarlet Pimpernel theme. Howard plays a character who while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Demi-Paradise
    In Europe to promote his new propeller device, Olivier is put off by English customs and manners-or, rather, the lack of the latter. No one in 1939 England trusts a foreigner, least of all one of those shifty "Reds", but when Russia and England become allies against the Nazis, the previously persona non grata Olivier is welcomed with open arms. Penelope Dudley Ward co-stars as Olivier's previously suspicious landlady, who ends up falling in love with him. (allmovie.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Home at Seven
    David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has been found murdered. Preston finds he has no alibi, and the police want him to account for the lost hours. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Innocents in Paris
    A selection of passengers catch the plane from London for an early 1950's weekend in Paris. The Scotsman in his kilt, the elderly lady painter, the international negotiator, and the pretty young girl all find the city welcomes them and changes their lives in some way. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    French Without Tears
    French Without Tears is a 1940 comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Ray Milland. It was based on the play of the same name by Terence Rattigan who also co-wrote the script. (Wikipedia)
    Your probable score
    ?
    The Courageous Mr. Penn
    Originally released in England as Mr. Penn of Pennsylvania, this is the story of legendary Quaker leader William Penn. As portrayed by Clifford Evans, Penn is courageous if pedantic crusader for religious liberties, bound and determined to create a new colony for himself and his fellow Quakers. This he does when he journeys to the New World to form the colony of Pennsylvania. (allrovi.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    English Without Tears
    While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Unpublished Story
    During the London blitz, a British war correspondent and a female reporter help to uncover a peace organisation supported by Nazi agents which is fomenting panic and defeatism. (BFI)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Bond Street
    This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical" British thoroughfare. The Grand Hotel-like construction of the film allows for several colorful character vignettes. The "dramatis personae" includes an unpredictably temperamental dressmaker, a blinded war veteran, an escaped POW, a gang of blackmailers, and the owner of a valuable string of pearls. (allmovie.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Secret Mission
    Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces for a planned invasion. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Jeannie
    Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent. (imdb)
    Your probable score
    ?
    Tomorrow We Live
    Mayor's daughter poses as collaborator to help British agent escape to England with vital information to help the allied war effort.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Flesh and Blood
    Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Her "father" disapprove and threatens to destroy the wedding. She retaliates by poisoning him and then gets married. She bears a son. (allmovie.com)
    Your probable score
    ?
    French Without Tears
    The romantic and comic adventures of a group of Englishmen in France, on a course to learn the language.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Discoveries
    Carroll Levis brings newly discovered talent to the screen.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Now Barabbas
    A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Treasure Hunt
    Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
    Your probable score
    ?
    Women of Twilight
    Vivanne is thrown on her own when her lover is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house run by a woman who provides room-and-board for unmarried mothers with an ulterior motive.
    Your probable score
    ?