W.P. Lipscomb Movies
British author/screenwriter W. P. Lipscomb was active in England's film industry from the silent days onward, starting with 1927's French Leave. The best known of his earliest scripting efforts was 1933's The Good Companions, the first film version of the popular J.B. Priestly "provincial" comedy. He went to Hollywood in 1934, where he worked at Darryl F. Zanuck's 20th Century... (read more) Pictures, contributing to the scripts of Cardinal Richelieu (1934), Clive of India (1935) and Les Miserables (1935). Lipscomb remained in the U.S. until 1946, when he returned to Britain for Beware of Pity (1946), which he produced as well as wrote. W. P. Lipscomb's final efforts of the 1950s include the war-related dramas A Town Like Alice (1954) and Dunkirk (1958). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Dunkirk
1958
One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent but reserved treatment in Dunkirk. The film takes...
Robbery Under Arms
1957
One of several feature film versions of the late 19th century novel by Rolf Boldrewood, this frontier adventure is set not in the Wild West of the U.S., but in the equally...
A Town Like Alice
1956
A harrowing WWII drama that was a huge critical and commercial success in England, this British production was based on a novel by Nevil Shute. During the war, a group of...
Make Me an Offer
1954
While ethnic humor was pretty much avoided by Hollywood in the politically touchy 1950s, Great Britain continued to turn out comedies relying upon accents and gentle stereotypes...
His Excellency
1952
In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an industrial island that finds itself further embroiled in a...
Ivory Hunter
1951
Anthony Steel plays a humane British game warden who sets up an African wildlife preserve. Ivory poachers sign up for the preserve's safari tour in hopes of bagging a few...
Bitter Springs
1950
British comic actor Tommy Trinder and Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film Bitter Springs. The plot is propelled along by Rafferty,...
The Mark of Cain
1947
In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the suave one, but finds that he is most displeased by her...
Beware of Pity
1946
Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but discovers that his marriage proposal was not made for love...
Forever and a Day
1943
The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people turned over their salaries to British war relief...
Pacific Blackout
1941
Midnight Angel was the title of this Paramount actioner when it was first released in December of 1941. But by the time the film reached the hinterlands, America had entered...
Moon over Burma
1940
Dorothy Lamour once again wraps a variety of alluring costumes around her hourglass frame in the Paramount bread-and-butter feature Moon Over Burma. Lamour is cast as Aria...
The Sun Never Sets
1939
In this patriotic British adventure, two courageous brothers try to keep war from erupting in Africa and stop a megalomaniacal arms baron from ruling the world. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
Pygmalion
1938
Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in Anthony Asquith's and Leslie Howard's classic version of George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. Henry Higgins (Howard) is...
A Message to Garcia
1936
The real "message to Garcia" was delivered by an American lieutenant to Cuban rebel General Garcia, asking for the General's help in the Spanish-American war. The fact that the...
Under Two Flags
1936
Two silent film versions preceded this 1936 Hollywood adaptation of the 19th century novel by the writer Ouida Bergere. It is set in Saharan Africa but was filmed in the...
Troubled Waters
1936
A British town, desperate to save its dying mineral spring water business, launches a bizarre conspiracy to attract badly needed attention for the town. They do so by claiming...
The Garden of Allah
1936
Marlene Dietrich stars as the noble Domini Enfilden in this third film version of Robert Hichens' 1904 novel. After caring for her dying father, Domini is told by her Mother...
Me and Marlborough
1935
In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband a shilling. He accepts it, but discovers that it is...
A Tale of Two Cities
NR 1935
It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the MGM Studios, David O. Selznick producing. "It was the...