Arthur Seaton Movies
- 1941
In this drama, an amiable steel worker suddenly changes when he becomes a foreman. Suddenly Mr. Nice Guy becomes Mr. Hard Nose and he mercilessly pushes his men to work harder and faster. His callous attitude comes home with him and his wife, too suffers. Trouble ensues when the foreman pushes the men so hard that a man dies. The other workers revolt, and at home, his wife leaves. The foreman turns to his friend, a preacher, for guidance and begins to see where he went wrong. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1938
The 1938 British sea melodrama Breakers Ahead isn't a remake of the 1935 film of the same name, although the two properties have much in common. Both films involve an attempted murder, and both are climaxed by a storm and shipwreck. In the later film, J. Fisher White plays a Cornish sailor whose wife Belle Chrystal is the jealous sort. Chrystal manages to drive a wedge between White and his brother Arthur Seaton. But the two siblings are reconciled when one saves the other's life during a disaster at sea. Vernon Sewell shot much of Breakers Ahead on location, both on and off-shore. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1937
Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison's filmographies. Set in an old-fashioned Scottish town, Storm in a Teacup features Rex Harrison as an English newpaper reporter who has traveled north in order to take a job. Once there, he meets Victoria (Leigh), the daughter of Provost Gow (Cecil Parker), who happens to be one of the wealthiest legal figures in town. It isn't until he come across an an impoverished woman and her beloved dog, however, that life becomes truly complicated. When Mrs. Hegarty (Sara Allgood) can't afford to pay her annual dog licensing fee, Leigh's father orders the dog be destroyed. Frank (Harrison) turns this into a human interest story, which rapidly travels across Scotland. With his political career in shambles, Gow (Parker) retaliates by suing Frank for slander. Victoria, however, has fallen in love with the young journalist, and gives both Frank and her father quite a surprise when she lies for him in her testimony. In doing so, Victoria unwittingly determines the fate for both her lover and the dog, Scruffy.
~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, (more)
- 1936
In this drama, a shyster betrays his law partner by embezzling company money to buy gold shares. He then kills his look-alike, a sanatorium patient, assumes his identity and hides out until the heat is off. Unfortunately, he is not suited to the life of a fugitive and his identity is soon revealed. He then kills himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1935
Wealthy American Joe Martin (Eugene Pallette) purchases an ancient Scottish castle and then has it dismantled and transferred to his Florida estate where he plans to reconstruct the castle brick by brick. Martin is unaware that his new acquisition comes equipped with an 18th-century ghost, played by Robert Donat. As the spectre, who feels as though his honor has been besmirched, flits around haunting one and all, Martin's daughter Peggy (Jean Parker) carries on a romance with the ghost's descendant, also played by Donat. It is only natural that the "live" and "dead" Donat will become mixed up, and this comedy of errors dominates the final scenes of The Ghost Goes West. The film was the first English-language production of French director René Clair -- and almost the last, due to producer Alexander Korda's insistence upon tampering with the original concept as laid down by Clair and screenwriter Robert E. Sherwood. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Donat, Jean Parker, (more)
