J Arthur Rank Organisation Movies

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" polic...

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriag...

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of E...

An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in pet...

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the co...

Drama and documentary are combined in this stylish and ambitious film, in which 3000 local people took part. The film delves into the complexities of...

David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building

A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and...

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the r...

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and attempt to take them to healthier land away from...

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sub...

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing fri...

Examines the role of art in WWII; featuring Henry Moore's drawings of London Underground during bombing raids, Paul Nash's paintings of aircraft dumps...

An animated short depicting aspects of London life set to traditional tunes and popular standards. Part of the J Arthur Rank Musical Paintbox series.