List of British films of 1951
A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1951 :
1951
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
1951 | - | - | - | - |
The Adventurers | David MacDonald | Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond | Adventure | |
The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn | African adventure | |
Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill | Crime drama | |
Appointment with Venus | Ralph Thomas | George Coulouris, David Niven, Glynis Johns | World War II/comedy | |
Assassin for Hire | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard | Crime | |
The Black Widow | Vernon Sewell | Christine Norden, Robert Ayres | Thriller | |
Blackmailed | Marc Allégret | Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | |
The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |
Calling Bulldog Drummond | Victor Saville | Walter Pidgeon, Robert Beatty | Crime | |
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo | Adventure | |
A Case for PC 49 | Francis Searle | Brian Reece, Joy Shelton | Mystery | |
Cheer the Brave | Kenneth Hume | Elsie Randolph, Geoffrey Keen | Comedy | |
Chelsea Story | Charles Saunders | Henry Mollison, Sydney Tafler, Ingeborg von Kusserow | Crime | |
Circle of Danger | Jacques Tourneur | Ray Milland, Patricia Roc | Thriller | |
Cloudburst | Francis Searle | Robert Preston, Harold Lang, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama | |
The Clouded Yellow | Ralph Thomas | Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons | Thriller | |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Zoltan Korda | Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier | African drama | Entered into the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival |
The Dark Light | Vernon Sewell | Albert Lieven, David Greene | Drama | |
The Dark Man | Jeffrey Dell | Maxwell Reed, Edward Underdown | Thriller | |
Death Is a Number | Robert Henryson | Terence Alexander, Lesley Osmond, Ingeborg von Kusserow | Horror | |
Encore | Pat Jackson, Harold French, Anthony Pelissier | Nigel Patrick, Kay Walsh | Drama | Anthology of stories by W. Somerset Maugham |
Files from Scotland Yard | Anthony Squire | John Harvey, Moira Lister | Crime | |
Flesh and Blood | Anthony Kimmins | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns | Drama | |
Four Days | John Guillermin | Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron | Drama | |
The Franchise Affair | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | Thriller | |
The Galloping Major | Henry Cornelius | Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott | Comedy | |
Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman | Comedy | |
Happy Go Lovely | H. Bruce Humberstone | Vera Ellen, David Niven | Romance | |
Hell Is Sold Out | Michael Anderson | Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom | Drama | |
High Treason | Roy Boulting | Liam Redmond, André Morell | Crime | |
Home to Danger | Terence Fisher | Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson | Crime | |
The House in the Square | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie | Drama, Romance | |
Honeymoon Deferred | Mario Camerini | Sally Ann Howes, Griffith Jones, Kieron Moore | Comedy | Co-production with Italy |
Hotel Sahara | Ken Annakin | Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov | Comedy | |
I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | George Raft, Coleen Gray | Crime | |
Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | Diana Dors, Alastair Sim | Comedy | |
The Lady with a Lamp | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding | Biopic | |
The Late Edwina Black | Maurice Elvey | David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald | Drama | |
Laughter in Paradise | Mario Zampi | Alastair Sim, George Cole | Comedy | |
The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James | Comedy | Number 17 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Ealing Studios |
Let's Go Crazy | Alan Cullimore | Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |
Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | Kathleen Byron, Bernadette O'Farrell | Drama | |
The Long Dark Hall | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer | Crime | |
Madame Louise | Maclean Rogers | Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |
The Magic Box | John Boulting | Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston | Biopic | |
The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker | Comedy | Number 58 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Ealing Studios |
Mr. Denning Drives North | Anthony Kimmins | John Mills, Phyllis Calvert | Mystery | |
Mister Drake's Duck | Val Guest | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan | Science fiction/comedy | |
Murder in the Cathedral | George Hoellering | John Groser, Alexander Gauge | Historical | |
Mystery Junction | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray | Crime | |
Night Was Our Friend | Michael Anderson | Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough | Drama | |
Night Without Stars | Anthony Pelissier | David Farrar, Nadia Gray | Crime | |
No Highway in the Sky | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich | Drama | |
No Resting Place | Paul Rotha | Michael Gough | Drama | |
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane | Comedy | |
One Wild Oat | Charles Saunders | Robertson Hare, Stanley Holloway, Sam Costa | Comedy | |
Out of True | Philip Leacock | Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow | Drama documentary | |
Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | Robert Morley, Trevor Howard | Drama | |
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Albert Lewin | Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |
Penny Points to Paradise | Tony Young | Harry Secombe, Alfred Marks, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |
Pool of London | Basil Dearden | Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw | Drama | |
The Quiet Woman | John Gilling | Derek Bond, Jane Hylton | Crime | |
Reluctant Heroes | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Derek Farr | Comedy | |
The Rossiter Case | Francis Searle | Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin | Mystery | |
Scarlet Thread | Lewis Gilbert | Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey | Drama | |
Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley | Literary drama | |
The Six Men | Michael Law | Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes | Crime | |
Smart Alec | John Guillermin | Peter Reynolds, Mercy Haystead | Crime | |
Take Me to Paris | Jack Raymond | Albert Modley, Bruce Seton | Comedy | |
A Tale of Five Cities | Various | Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly | Mystery | |
The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Robert Rounseville, Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina | Ballet | Two Academy Award nominations; entered at Cannes and Berlin |
Talk of a Million | John Paddy Carstairs | Jack Warner, Barbara Mullen | Comedy | |
There Is Another Sun | Lewis Gilbert | Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey | Drama | |
The Third Visitor | Maurice Elvey | Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton | Crime | |
To Have and to Hold | Godfrey Grayson | Avis Scott, Patrick Barr | Drama | |
Tom Brown's Schooldays | Gordon Parry | Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, James Hayter | Drama | |
Two on the Tiles | John Guillermin | Herbert Lom, Brenda Bruce | Comedy | |
Valley of Eagles | Terence Young | Jack Warner, Nadia Gray | Thriller | |
Where No Vultures Fly | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan | African adventure | |
White Corridors | Pat Jackson | Googie Withers, James Donald | Drama | |
Worm's Eye View | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Diana Dors | Comedy | |
Young Wives' Tale | Henry Cass | Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Audrey Hepburn | Comedy |