Esmond Knight Movies

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers...

Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how...

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external...

As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in...

The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.

After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.

A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.

Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of...

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life,...

A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father.

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.

“Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital,...

A musical film directed by Fred Paul

Two young officers in the Italian Royal Air Force (Knight and Stuart) compete for the hand of the attractive Elena (Greta Hansen) and find their...

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after...