Janet Morrison Movies
- 1949
In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the responsibility of supporting his mother and paying for his brother's education. He becomes a partner in a small practice and watches the woman he wanted to marry go off with his brother. The brother is killed in WWI, after which his illegitimate son is born. The doctor marries the woman, but she dies in childbirth, leaving him to raise his brother's child. Eventually, he finds a new wife. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hilda Bayley, Beatrice Campbell, (more)
- 1946
In this musical, a woman finds herself the apex in a triangle of love. On one side is her devoted husband, an ex-fighter pilot. On the other there is her old love. When her husband realizes that she is attracted to the latter, he does the noble thing and allows her to wealthy former love. In return, the equally honorable other man talks her into returning to her spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1945
In this drama, a farmer marries an uptown chorus girl and tries to help her settle down to the simplicity of farm living by giving her a little heifer. Unfortunately, she does not settle down right away and begins spending their money so freely that the farmer soon loses everything. When it looks like all is lost, the woman takes off on her horse. She ends up suffering a fatal fall, leaving her hapless husband destitute and filled with guilt. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- William Hartnell, Carol Raye, (more)
- 1945
In this episode of the long-running series, the famed Irish washerwoman has her hands full (actually, "she" was comic actor Arthur Lucan in drag) as she tries to locate her errant daughter after the latter runs away with her new beau. Much to Mother Riley's chagrin, she finds the twosome ensconced in a gamblers' lair. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1944
Give Me the Stars is a British comedy aimed squarely at the regional audiences of the 1940s. Lenni Lynn plays an American girl (complete with a line of unconvincing slang) who heads to Scotland on family business. She appoints herself protector of her cranky Scots grandfather (Will Fyffe), who of course is not nearly as helpless as she believes. While tolerably produced, Give Me the Stars rather resembles an elongated music hall sketch. But Will Fyffe was enormously popular, and the film brought in the shillings. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
