I wanted to make up this list because Hollywood seemed to have a striking interest in things British at this time. Partly it was due to the joint US/UK effort in World War Two, partly it was the fact that literary adaptations were popular - and that meant a lot of English classics - and partly it was the fact that there were a lot of British actors working in Hollywood who needed roles that suited their accents. In any case, it was certainly a trend.
I haven’t included any films like Foreign Correspondent (1940) or A Tale of Two Cities (1935) which are just partly set in Britain. I've included US/UK co-productions if they had an American director.
- A Chump at Oxford (1940)
- A Yank At Eton (1942)
- A Yank at Oxford (1938)
- A Yank in the RAF (1941)
- And Then There Were None (1945)
- Becky Sharp (1935)
- Cavalcade (1933)
- Cluny Brown (1946)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1932 and 1941)
- Dracula (1931)
- Forever Amber (1947)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
- Great Expectations (1934)
- Hangover Square (1945)
- How Green Was My Valley (1941)
- Jane Eyre (1944)
- Kidnapped (1938 and 1948)
- Kitty (1945)
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
- Lloyds of London (1936)
- Mary of Scotland (1936)
- Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Mrs Miniver (1942)
- Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
- National Velvet (1944)
- None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
- Of Human Bondage (1934 and 1946)
- Oliver Twist (1933)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Suspicion (1941)
- Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
- That Hamilton Woman (1941)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The Barrets of Wimpole St. (1934)
- The Citadel (1938)
- The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and others in the Basil Rathbone-Sherlock Holmes series
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- The Light That Failed (1939)
- The Lodger (1944)
- The Moonstone (1934)
- The Old Dark House (1932)
- The Paradine Case (1948)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
- The Saint in London (1939)
- The Secret Garden (1949)
- The Werewolf of London (1935)
- The White Cliffs Of Dover (1944)
- The Wolf Man (1941)
- The Woman In White (1948)
- This Above All (1942)
- Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
- Waterloo Bridge (1931 and 1940)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
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