List of British films of 1947

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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1947:

Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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1947
Black Memory | Oswald Mitchell | Michael Medwin, Sid James, Gerald Pring | Crime |
Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron | Thriller | Number 44 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
Brighton Rock | John Boulting | Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley | Crime drama | Number 15 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films
The Brothers | David MacDonald | Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Finlay Currie | Drama |
Bush Christmas | Ralph Smart | Chris Rafferty | Comedy |
Captain Boycott | Frank Launder | Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker | Historical |
Code of Scotland Yard | George King | Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow, Derek Farr | Crime |
The Courtneys of Curzon Street | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Michael Medwin | Drama |
Dancing with Crime | John Paddy Carstairs | Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim | Mystery |
Dear Murderer | Arthur Crabtree | Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price | Thriller |
Death in High Heels | Lionel Tomlinson | Don Stannard, Veronica Rose, Patricia Laffan | Crime |
Dual Alibi | Alfred Travers | Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence De Marney | Crime |
The End of the River | Derek Twist | Sabu, Bibi Ferreira, Esmond Knight | Drama |
Eyes That Kill | Richard M. Grey | Robert Berkeley, Sandra Dorne | Crime | [1]
Fame Is the Spur | Roy Boulting | Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John | Political drama |
The Foxes of Harrow | John M. Stahl | Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn | Adventure | Co-production with the U.S.
Frieda | Basil Dearden | David Farrar, Glynis Johns, Mai Zetterling | Drama |
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square | Vernon Sewell | Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer | Comedy |
Green Fingers | John Harlow | Robert Beatty, Carol Raye | Drama |
The Hangman Waits | A. Barr-Smith | John Turnbull, Beatrice Campbell | Drama | [2]
The Hills of Donegal | John Argyle | Dinah Sheridan, Moore Marriott | Drama |
Holiday Camp | Ken Annakin | Dennis Price, Jack Warner | Comedy/drama |
Hue and Cry | Charles Crichton | Alastair Sim, Harry Fowler | Comedy |
Hungry Hill | Brian Desmond Hurst | Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price | Drama |
An Ideal Husband | Alexander Korda | Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding | Comedy | Based on the play by Oscar Wilde
It Always Rains on Sunday | Robert Hamer | Googie Withers, Edward Chapman | Drama |
Jassy | Bernard Knowles | Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc, Dennis Price | Drama romance | Shot in Technicolor
Just William's Luck | Val Guest | William Graham, Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh | Comedy |
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Alberto Cavalcanti | Stanley Holloway, Cedric Hardwicke | Drama |
The Loves of Joanna Godden | Charles Frend | Googie Withers, Jean Kent | Historical/drama |
A Man About the House | Leslie Arliss | Dulcie Gray, Margaret Johnston, Kieron Moore | Drama |
The Man Within | Bernard Knowles | Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent | Historical drama |
The Mark of Cain | Brian Desmond Hurst | Eric Portman, Sally Gray | Crime |
Master of Bankdam | Walter Forde | Anne Crawford, Dennis Price | Drama |
Meet Me at Dawn | Peter Creswell, Thornton Freeland | William Eythe, Stanley Holloway | Comedy/adventure |
Mine Own Executioner | Anthony Kimmins | Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray | Drama |
Mrs. Fitzherbert | Montgomery Tully | Peter Graves, Joyce Howard | Historical |
The Mysterious Mr. Nicholson | Oswald Mitchell | Anthony Hulme, Lesley Osmond | Crime |
Night Beat | Harold Huth | Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed | Crime/drama |
The October Man | Roy Ward Baker | John Mills, Joan Greenwood | Mystery |
Odd Man Out | Carol Reed | James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack | Drama |
The Phantom Shot | Mario Zampi | John Stuart, Olga Lindo | Mystery |
The Root of All Evil | Brock Williams | Phyllis Calvert, Michael Rennie | Drama |
The Shop at Sly Corner | George King | Oskar Homolka, Kenneth Griffith | Crime Drama |
Silver Darlings | Clarence Elder | Clifford Evans, Helen Shingler | Drama |
So Well Remembered | Edward Dmytryk | John Mills, Martha Scott | Drama |
Take My Life | Ronald Neame | Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt | Thriller |
Temptation Harbour | Lance Comfort | Robert Newton, Simone Simon | Crime |
They Made Me a Fugitive | Alberto Cavalcanti | Trevor Howard, Sally Gray | Film noir |
Things Happen at Night | Francis Searle | Gordon Harker, Alfred Drayton | Comedy |
The Turners of Prospect Road | Maurice J. Wilson | Wilfrid Lawson, Helena Pickard | Comedy/drama |
Uncle Silas | Charles Frank | Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou | Drama |
The Upturned Glass | Lawrence Huntington | James Mason, Rosamund John | Drama |
When the Bough Breaks | Lawrence Huntington | Patricia Roc, Rosamund John | Drama |
While I Live | John Harlow | Tom Walls, Sonia Dresdel, Carol Raye | Drama |
While the Sun Shines | Anthony Asquith | Barbara White, Ronald Squire | Comedy |
White Cradle Inn | Harold French | Madeleine Carroll, Ian Hunter | Drama |
The White Unicorn | Bernard Knowles | Margaret Lockwood, Joan Greenwood | Drama |
The Woman in the Hall | Jack Lee | Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons | Drama |
Woman to Woman | Maclean Rogers | Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard | Drama |

## See also

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* 1947 in British music
* 1947 in British television
* 1947 in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Eyes That Kill (1947)". Archived from the original on May 31, 2017.
2. ^ "The Hangman Waits (1947)". Archived from the original on November 12, 2017.

## External links

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* British films of 1947 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
* Arborfield Studios
* BBC Film
* Big Talk Studios
* British Lion Films
* DNA Films
* DNEG
* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
* Film4 Productions
* Framestore
* Goldcrest Films
* Hammer Film Productions
* HandMade Films
* Heyday Films
* The Imaginarium
* London Films
* Longcross Studios
* Mister Smith Entertainment
* Number 9 Films
* Passion Pictures
* Pinewood Group
* Pinewood Studios
* Shepperton Studios
* Recorded Picture Company
* Scott Free Productions
* Shinfield Studios
* Syncopy Inc.
* S4C
* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
* Working Title Films

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Former|

* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
* Halas and Batchelor
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
* Holmfirth Studios
* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

Genres and
movements|

* British New Wave
* Horror films of Britain
* Documentary Film Movement
* Ealing comedies
* Free Cinema
* Kitchen sink realism
* Gainsborough melodramas

Organisations|

* British Academy of Film and Television Arts
* British Board of Film Classification
* British Film Institute
* BFI National Archive
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* British Society of Cinematographers
* Children's Film Foundation
* Cinema Exhibitors' Association
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* National Film and Television School
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* Northern Ireland Screen
* UK Film Council

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