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George King - what members say

Candlelight In Algeria review by A customer from Preston

A forgotten movie delight 2 January 2009
...ter a creeky start, this English film sparkles under the confident direction of George King. It is a mixture of romance, espionage and intrigue. The romance portrayed by J... Read customer review

Case Of The Frightened Lady review by A customer from North Yorkshire

Better than you would think 1 August 2008
...For an old Edgar Wallace thriller directed by George King this is alot better than you might think. No classic but it does have some good moments towards the end and a gen... Read customer review

George King - filmography

Forbidden on DVD (1948)
Starring: Douglas Montgomery, Kenneth Griffith, Hazel Court
Director: George King
Certificate:
This Hitchcockian thriller set in post-War Blackpool tells the tale of Jim Harding, a man that decides to murder his adulterous wife after falling in love with a candyfloss seller.

59% from 164 members

Shop At Sly Corner on DVD (1947)
Starring: Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow, Derek Farr
Director: George King
Certificate:
Desius Heiss is the French-born owner of an antique shop on Sly Corner who bears a grudge against society. His imprisonment and torture on Devil s Island has left the scars of repeated whippings down his back. With little care for the authorities, Heiss has allowed his shop to become a centre of ..read more »

64% from 99 members

Gaiety George on DVD (1946)
Starring: Richard Greene
Director: George King, Leontine Sagan
Certificate:
Matinee idol Richard Greene (TVs The Adventures of Robin Hood) stars in this spectacular musical romance based on the true-life story of Londons first theatrical impresario, George Edwardes. The dashing entrepreneur buys a run-down music hall in the capital and fills it with musical comedies, ..read more »

43% from 18 members

Tomorrow We Live on DVD (1943)
Starring: Greta Gynt, John Clements, Godfrey Tearle
Director: George King
Certificate:
Whilst the Germans scour a French town for saboteurs, the Mayor (Godfrey Tearle) and his daughter Marie (Greta Gynt) collaborate with the German Occupation. But unknown to both the Germans and the French villagers, they are leaders of the resistance organisation. When a young French idealist (John ..read more »

62% from 45 members

Candlelight In Algeria on DVD (1942)
Starring: James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell
Director: George King
Certificate:
Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is cast into a web of international intrigue when she decides to hide fugitive British agent Alan Thurston (James Mason) from suave Nazi Dr. Muller (Walter Rilla). Thurston's mission is to travel to the Vichy colony of Algiers and recover a camera revealing the exact ..read more »

63% from 90 members

Crimes At The Dark House on DVD (1940)
Starring: Tod Slaughter, Hilary Eaves
Director: George King
Certificate:
After killing a supposedly rich man, the murderer assumes the man's identity and returns to England to claim his fortune.

59% from 75 members

Tod Slaughter Triple Feature - The Face ... on DVD (1939)
Starring: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor
Director: George King, David MacDonald
Certificate:
The Face at the Window: A murderer uses his monstrous half-brother to distract his victims but is foiled when a dead man apparently incriminates him with the help of a scientific experiment.

61% from 25 members

Sweeney Todd - Demon Barber Of Fleet Street on DVD (1936)
Starring: Tod Slaughter, John Singer, Eve Lister
Director: George King
Certificate:
Tod Slaughter stars as a Fleet Street barber who amasses a tidy fortune by cutting sailors throats and disposing of their bodies in...homemade meat pies. All goes well until he falls in love with a young woman and excites the jealousy of his elderly female accomplice.

58% from 178 members

Johnny Legend's Deadly Doubles Vol. 2 - ...
Starring: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu
Director: George King
Certificate:
Featuring 'Murder In The Red Barn' And 'The Face At The Window'

58% from 9 members
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Tod Slaughter Triple Feature (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor
Director: George King, David MacDonald
Certificate:
A triple bill of b-movie barnstormers starring the great pantomime villain of the day, Tod Slaughter.

60% from 5 members

Case Of The Frightened Lady on DVD
Starring: Marius Goring, Helen Haye, Penelope Dudley-Ward
Director: George King
Certificate:
The ancient and mysterious house of 'Mark's Priory' is the family seat of the Lebanon family. Lady Lebanon (Helen Haye) is desperate to have an heir to carry on the family name and has told her son, Lord William, (Marius Gording) that he must marry her niece, Isla Crane (Penelope Dudley-Ward). But ..read more »

63% from 74 members

Tod Slaughter Triple Feature - The Crime... on DVD
Starring: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor
Director: George King, David MacDonald
Certificate:
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke: Slaughter is secretly the murderous fiend known as Spine Beaker! When the police come to suspect him he removes himself from London but has to come back to save his daughter from the villainous police chief. It's Never Too Late to Mend: Evil Squire Slaughter schemes ..read more »

68% from 25 members

George King facts

5 most recent films

Forbidden - 3.0 stars
Shop At Sly Corner - 3.0 stars
Gaiety George - 2.0 stars
Tomorrow We Live - 3.0 stars
Candlelight In Algeria - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shop At Sly Corner - 3.0 stars
Case Of The Frightened Lady - 3.0 stars
Candlelight In Algeria - 3.0 stars
Forbidden - 3.0 stars
Sweeney Todd - Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Gaiety George - 2.0 stars
Johnny Legend's Deadly Doubles Vol. 2 - Murder In The Red Barn/ - 3.0 stars
Tod Slaughter Triple Feature - 3.0 stars
Tod Slaughter Triple Feature - The Face At The Window - 3.0 stars
Tomorrow We Live - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tod Slaughter - 6 times - show films
John Warwick - 5 times - show films
Marjorie Taylor - 4 times - show films
D.J. Williams - 3 times - show films
Jack Livesey - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

David MacDonald - 3 times - show films
Leontine Sagan - 1 times - show films