List of British films of 1951

British films released in 1951

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List of British films
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A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1951 (see 1951 in film):

## A–K

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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes

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The Adventurers | David MacDonald | Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price | Adventure |
The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley | Adventure |
Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Anthony Steel | Crime drama |
Appointment with Venus | Ralph Thomas | David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris | War comedy |
Assassin for Hire | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard, Katherine Blake | Crime |
Black Widow | Vernon Sewell | Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne | Thriller |
Blackmailed | Marc Allégret | Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton | Drama |
The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick | Drama |
Calling Bulldog Drummond | Victor Saville | Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, David Tomlinson | Crime |
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty | Adventure |
A Case for PC 49 | Francis Searle | Brian Reece, Joy Shelton, Christine Norden | Mystery |
Cheer the Brave | Kenneth Hume | Elsie Randolph, Geoffrey Keen, Jack McNaughton | Comedy |
Chelsea Story | Charles Saunders | Henry Mollison, Sydney Tafler, Ingeborg Wells | Crime |
Circle of Danger | Jacques Tourneur | Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring | Thriller |
Cloudburst | Francis Searle | Robert Preston, Harold Lang, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama |
Cry, the Beloved Country | Zoltan Korda | Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey | Drama | Entered into the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival
The Dark Light | Vernon Sewell | Albert Lieven, David Greene, Katharine Blake | Drama |
The Dark Man | Jeffrey Dell | Maxwell Reed, Natasha Parry, Edward Underdown | Thriller |
Death Is a Number | Robert Henryson | Terence Alexander, Lesley Osmond, Ingeborg Wells | Horror |
Encore | Pat Jackson, Harold French, Anthony Pelissier | Nigel Patrick, Glynis Johns, Kay Walsh | Drama | Anthology of stories by W. Somerset Maugham
Files from Scotland Yard | Anthony Squire | John Harvey, Moira Lister, Reginald Purdell | Crime |
Flesh and Blood | Anthony Kimmins | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood | Drama |
Four Days | John Guillermin | Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron, Peter Reynolds | Drama |
The Franchise Affair | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Marjorie Fielding | Thriller |
The Galloping Major | Henry Cornelius | Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott | Comedy |
Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey | Comedy |
Happy Go Lovely | H. Bruce Humberstone | Vera Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero | Musical |
Hell Is Sold Out | Michael Anderson | Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough | Drama |
High Treason | Roy Boulting | Liam Redmond, André Morell, Patric Doonan | Crime |
Home to Danger | Terence Fisher | Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley | 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, David Tomlinson | Comedy |
I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | George Raft, Coleen Gray, Charles Goldner | Crime |

## L–Z

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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes

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Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | Pauline Stroud, Stanley Holloway, Diana Dors | Comedy |
The Lady with a Lamp | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer | Biopic |
The Late Edwina Black | Maurice Elvey | David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roland Culver | Drama |
Laughter in Paradise | Mario Zampi | Alastair Sim, George Cole, Guy Middleton | 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, Wallas Eaton | Comedy |
Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | Kathleen Byron, Bernadette O'Farrell, Joan Maude | Drama |
The Long Dark Hall | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Raymond Huntley | Crime |
Madame Louise | Maclean Rogers | Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh | Comedy |
The Magic Box | John Boulting | Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell | 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, Herbert Lom | Mystery |
Mister Drake's Duck | Val Guest | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Sci-fi comedy |
Murder in the Cathedral | George Hoellering | John Groser, Alexander Gauge, George Woodbridge | Historical |
Mystery Junction | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Patricia Owens | Crime |
Never Take No for an Answer | Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart | Denis O'Dea, Nerio Bernardi, Clelia Matania | Drama | Co-production with Italy
Night Was Our Friend | Michael Anderson | Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard | Drama |
Night Without Stars | Anthony Pelissier | David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac | Crime |
No Highway in the Sky | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns | Drama |
No Resting Place | Paul Rotha | Michael Gough, Noel Purcell, Eithne Dunne | Drama |
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Garry Marsh | Comedy |
One Wild Oat | Charles Saunders | Robertson Hare, Stanley Holloway, Ingeborg Wells | Comedy |
Out of True | Philip Leacock | Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow, Mary Merrall | Drama |
Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley | 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, Dora Bryan | Crime |
The Rossiter Case | Francis Searle | Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin, Sheila Burrell | Mystery |
Scarlet Thread | Lewis Gilbert | Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey, Sydney Tafler | Crime |
Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley | Literary drama |
The Six Men | Michael Law | Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Avril Angers | Crime |
Smart Alec | John Guillermin | Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer, Edward Lexy | Crime |
Take Me to Paris | Jack Raymond | Albert Modley, Bruce Seton, Richard Molinas | Comedy |
A Tale of Five Cities | Various | Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon | 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, Ronan O'Casey | Comedy |
There Is Another Sun | Lewis Gilbert | Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shaw | Drama |
The Third Visitor | Maurice Elvey | Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton, Hubert Gregg | Crime |
To Have and to Hold | Godfrey Grayson | Avis Scott, Patrick Barr, Ellen Pollock | Drama |
Tom Brown's Schooldays | Gordon Parry | Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, James Hayter | Drama |
Two on the Tiles | John Guillermin | Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Brenda Bruce, | Comedy |
Valley of Eagles | Terence Young | Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum | Thriller |
Where No Vultures Fly | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Meredith Edwards | Adventure |
White Corridors | Pat Jackson | Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle | Drama |
Worm's Eye View | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Diana Dors, Garry Marsh | Comedy |
Young Wives' Tale | Henry Cass | Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Audrey Hepburn | Comedy |

## See also

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* 1951 in British music
* 1951 in British television
* 1951 in the United Kingdom

## External links

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* British films of 1951 at IMDb

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* Aardman Animations
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* Big Talk Studios
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* DNA Films
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* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
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* Thin Man Films
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* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
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* 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

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* British New Wave
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* Ealing comedies
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