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- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsJames MasonVirginia CherrillAlastair SimA newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.First film , as a reporter after the murderer of a policeman
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsVirginia CherrillJames MasonAlastair SimA secret agent puts his life on the line to save a town's liquid explosives from crooks.Another early crime film
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsJames MasonMarguerite AllanWally PatchJames Mason's blamed for murder, sent to jail, and escapes to find the real criminals.Edgar Wallace story
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsRobert RendelLucille LisleJames MasonA young businessman is being duped by business swindlers but his jailbird father is determined to save him.Plays an ex con in this drama
- DirectorRoy KellinoStarsJames MasonSylvia ColeridgeWilliam DevlinFarmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps and murders Martha. He goes on the run and comes across a young woman in a caravan. She gives him a lift and unbeknownst to him, she recognizes him and plans to write a book called "I Met a Murderer". She unexpectedly falls for him as the police close in.First proper Noir role , a farmer who kills his wife and goes on the run . Doomed .
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonMary ClareMargaret VynerJames Mason as a private detective, whose father is a Scotland Yard man, takes a case involving extortion and kidnapping. A young girl is kidnapped from a nursing home and he advises the girl's father not to pay the ransom. After several near-misses on his life, he learns that the doctor in charge of the nursing home has been taken prisoner by the kidnappers. And then the wicket gets stiff or stuffy, or whatever wickets do.Mystery film , plays a private eye
- DirectorLance ComfortStarsRobert NewtonJames MasonDeborah KerrJames Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But, when his mistress convinces him to give her "step-brother" Denis (former boyfriend) a job at the hat shop, tragedy starts creeping towards all involved with Brodie.Good doctor who tries to save Deborah Kerr from Robert Newton .
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsJames MasonWilfrid LawsonMary ClareA pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.Spanish Civil War veteran living on the Yorkshire moors murdering people , or is he ? First real Mason homme fatale , dark and brooding and the hint of violence
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsMargaret LockwoodHugh SinclairJames MasonA bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi.Goes undercover to break Margaret Lockwood's false alibi
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonPhyllis CalvertAfter a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.Lord Rohan , taking a horsewhip to Margaret Lockwood . First of the Gainsborough classics
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJames MasonCarla LehmannRaymond LovellAn American sculptress in wartime Algiers gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--and that the British agent has a camera that has photographs of the meeting place.Thriller in the British Hitchcock vein .
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsPhyllis CalvertJames MasonWilfrid LawsonFanny's father dies in a fight. Her family runs a brothel. Her real father is a politician. She falls for his advisor Harry. Lord Manderstoke's interference causes conflicts between classes. Tragic events occur due to the Lord's schemes.Still being horrible to Phyllis Calvert , another great villain
- DirectorsLance ComfortMutz GreenbaumVictor HanburyStarsJames MasonLucie MannheimRaymond LovellA hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.Accused of being a spy , has to find the real spy . Based on an Eric Ambler novel .
- DirectorBernard KnowlesStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonBarbara MullenAn elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
- DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsPhyllis CalvertJames MasonHugh SinclairThe story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
- DirectorCompton BennettStarsJames MasonAnn ToddHerbert LomA concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodJames MasonPatricia RocA noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- DirectorLawrence HuntingtonStarsJames MasonRosamund JohnPamela MasonA British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJames MasonBarbara Bel GeddesRobert RyanAn ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one.
- DirectorMax OphülsStarsJames MasonJoan BennettGeraldine BrooksAfter discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsBarbara StanwyckJames MasonVan HeflinA vain businessman puts a strain on happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJames MasonMärta TorénDan DuryeaAfter stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
- DirectorsRoy KellinoWilliam SpierJames MasonStarsJames MasonJune HavocStephen DunneIn a London nursing home, Jean Wilson, a happily-married American woman, while in a state of semi-consciousness, hears Jimmy Del Palma angrily berate the hospital management for the out-dated treatment used on his wife who later dies. When she is well again, Jean rents the former home of Del Palma, a famous concert pianist, and his late wife. Not knowing why, she begins to fall in love with the absent man and on hearing about his wife's death, dreams of taking her place. Her dream comes close to becoming reality.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonClaire BloomHildegard KnefIn post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German smuggler.