I don't think I've seen "It's Love I'm After", which I've also heard recommended (and features Olivia de Havilland in a supporting role!)
The Leslie Howard films I've definitely seen and can recommend are "Pimpernel Smith" (if you liked "The Scarlet Pimpernel", you'll like this modern-day update with Howard as a mild-mannered archaeology professor with a band of devoted students engaging in anti-Nazi activities), "The First of the Few" (with a nice role for David Niven -- and if you haven't come across Niven yet, you should!), and "Pygmalion", where he plays the perfect Professor Higgins. (If the film seems to hold strangely explicit echoes of "My Fair Lady", that's because the subsequent musical was based *on* this screen adaptation -- it was the only way they could get past Shaw's opposition!)
Howard has quite a decent cameo in "49th Parallel", which is in itself a good film, but his part is very much a cameo in the context of the entire picture, and a bit typecast as the plucky English gentleman/scholar who doesn't want to fight but will if he has to...
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Date: 2018-06-13 01:03 am (UTC)The Leslie Howard films I've definitely seen and can recommend are "Pimpernel Smith" (if you liked "The Scarlet Pimpernel", you'll like this modern-day update with Howard as a mild-mannered archaeology professor with a band of devoted students engaging in anti-Nazi activities), "The First of the Few" (with a nice role for David Niven -- and if you haven't come across Niven yet, you should!), and "Pygmalion", where he plays the perfect Professor Higgins. (If the film seems to hold strangely explicit echoes of "My Fair Lady", that's because the subsequent musical was based *on* this screen adaptation -- it was the only way they could get past Shaw's opposition!)
Howard has quite a decent cameo in "49th Parallel", which is in itself a good film, but his part is very much a cameo in the context of the entire picture, and a bit typecast as the plucky English gentleman/scholar who doesn't want to fight but will if he has to...