Movielogr
The Magic Box (1952)
Directed by John Boulting
Overview
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Length 118 minutes
Actors
Robert Donat | Margaret Johnston | Maria Schell | Renée Asherson | Richard Attenborough | Robert Beatty | Martin Boddey | Edward Chapman | John Charlesworth | Maurice Colbourne | Roland Culver | John Howard Davies | Michael Denison | Joan Dowling | Henry Edwards | Mary Ellis | Marjorie Fielding | Robert Flemyng | Leo Genn | Marius Goring | Everley Gregg | Joyce Grenfell | Robertson Hare | Kathleen Harrison | William Hartnell | Joan Hickson | Thora Hird | Stanley Holloway | Patrick Holt | Michael Hordern | Jack Hulbert | Sid James | Glynis Johns | Mervyn Johns | Barry Jones | Peter Jones | James Kenney | Ann Lancaster | Herbert Lomas | John Longden | Bessie Love | Miles Malleson | Garry Marsh | Muir Mathieson | A.E. Matthews | Bernard Miles | Richard Murdoch | John McCallum | David Oake | Laurence Olivier | Cecil Parker | Frank Pettingell | Norman Pierce | Eric Portman | Dennis Price | Michael Redgrave | Peter Reynolds | Margaret Rutherford | Janette Scott | Ronald Shiner | Sheila Sim | Oda Slobodskaya | John Stuart | Marianne Stone | Basil Sydney | Ernest Thesiger | Sybil Thorndike | David Tomlinson | Cecil Trouncer | Michael Trubshawe | Peter Ustinov | Frederick Valk | Amy Veness | Charles Victor | Kay Walsh | Norman Watson | Emlyn Williams | Harcourt Williams | Googie Withers | Joan Young | John Sharp