odd man out (1947)

"Cant a fella take a drink in peace."
Irish nationalist (James Mason) is wounded when he leads a gang in a wages snatch and tries to evade police as everything goes wrong.
Carol Reed does a fine job of ramping up the drama as the day progresses.

crooks tour (1940)

aka Night Train To Munich.
"All night in the desert. No bed, no bath."
Charters and Caldicott (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne) return and inadvertantly get involved in a spy plot to prevent oil being sent to the British war effort by Saudi Arabia.
Mildly amusing spin-off characters from The Lady Vanishes.

the stars look down (1940)

"If these men drown in Scupper flats no one can accuse you of murder. You'll say you were not a party to it. But what will your conscience say?"
Davey (Michael Redgrave) is a miner, from a long line of miners, who gets a scholarship to university. He's determined to graduate in order to campaign for better mine working conditions. Unfortunately he gets sidetracked by gold digger Jenny (Margaret Lockwood), and ends up back in his pit village as a school teacher humiliated. But things come to a head when he learns that an unsafe seam may be being reopened by the unscrupulous mine owner...
A campaigning drama, full of vitriol, demanding the nationalisation of the coal mines. Its lack of sophistication in the script is more than made up for in the cinematography when in the mines themselves, with its grim realism, and unhappy ending.

kipps (1941)

aka The Remarkable Mr. Kipps.
"Artie, are you happy?"
Mr Kipps (Michael Redgrave) is a lowly shop assistant when he comes into an inheritance. No longer needing to work, he is advised to move up in the world and expand his social circle, but becoming a member of society is harder than he realises.
Based on the HG Wells story from a thankfully lost time. When social standing was everything. Interesting in a retrospective way, but does nothing for me beyond the historical perspective.

night train to munich (1940)

AKA Night Train.
"English I presume. A very peculiar race."
When the Germans kidnap inventor Dr Bomasch (James Harcourt) and his daughter Anna (Margaret Lockwood), British secret service agent Gus Bennet (Rex Harrison) tries to liberate them disguised as a senior German army officer.
Features Charters and Caldicott (Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne), those quintessential Englishmen abroad as light relief. This is otherwise a tense thriller.