Robert Newton Movies

Around the World in 80 Days

68/100

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

Oliver Twist

78/100

An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Jamaica Inn

64/100

In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.

Odd Man Out

78/100

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Treasure Island

70/100

The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.

Henry V

73/100

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The Desert Rats

68/100

Richard Burton plays a Scottish Army officer put in charge of a disparate band of ANZAC troops on the perimeter of Tobruk with the German Army doing their best to dislodge them.

This Happy Breed

73/100

Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the ... See full summary »

The Hidden Room

74/100

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.

Blackbeard, the Pirate

61/100

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Major Barbara

70/100

A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.

Les Miserables

69/100

A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

69/100

Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.

Androcles and the Lion

61/100

Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.

Der Schatz der Korsaren

59/100

In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

Soldiers Three

60/100

Retired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

72/100

A young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully.

The Beachcomber

62/100

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" ... See full summary »

A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle

72/100

The Beachcomber

71/100

In the Dutch islands, the sister of a pious missionary attempts to reform a womanizing, drunken beach bum.

Snowbound

60/100

A group of people search for Nazi treasure hidden in the Alps. From "The Lonely Skier" by Hammond Innes.

Wings and the Woman

62/100

The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was ... See full summary »

Night Boat to Dublin

60/100

The allies plan to rescue a Swedish atomic scientist from under the noses of the Nazis.

Waterfront Women

67/100

A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums...

Poison Pen

70/100

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".