The Adventures Of Tartu - Full Movie | Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns 

I think these old warm films should be broadcast more widely so that the ignorant and complacent can understand what we are threatened with by todays political landscape and what outstanding individual bravery and sacrifices has saved us, thus far.

1943 movie. Glynis Johns died this week, Jan/2024 at age 100.

Robert Donat was the best British actor of his generation. He had amazing range and came across as a kind of English middle class every-man. It didn't matter the genre, he was natural and convincing. Brilliant actor, one of a kind, irreplaceable & greatly missed. He left a hole bigger than that "two thousand pounder" would have made had he not defused it. A great little film, thanks for posting.

What a wonderfully made film! So many sacrificed their very lives to bring freedom to others! God bless each and every one! I only hope I could be as brave against evil

REST IN PEACE GLYNIS JOHNS ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thank you so much for that great movie... I hadn't recognized Robert Donat at first, I remember him from "The 39 steps"... That movie had everything in it : A great story, great actors, romance and the last 30 minutes totally look like a Bond movie 21 years earlier... Thanks again 🙂🙂

Robert Donat may not have made as many films as some of his leading man-contemporaries, but every one that I've seen has been great entertainment: 39 Steps, Count of Monte Cristo, Ghost Goes West, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Young Mr. Pitt, The Winslow Boy*, his early appearance as Thomas Culpeper in The Private Life of Henry VIII, and now this. What a talent!

Really enjoyed this Film today and then learnt within an hour of watching it Glynis Johns had passed away😢 R.I.P

Great to see this fine movie again. Robert Donat has been on my top 10 actors list ever since old Classics were available.

Absolutely loved him in the film. The 39 steps. .

An absolute tour de force by Robert Donat! Brilliantly entertaining and hilariously funny at times. Reminded me of 'Allo 'Allo! Amazing film.

I truly enjoy watching Robert Donat. He made too few films and I've enjoyed each and everyone I've seen. I think "That Winslow Boy" and "The 39 Steps" are phenomenal and the "The Magic Box" is superb. But without a doubt his transformation in age in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" is my absolute favorite. I see a great similarity between the British actor Robert Donat and the American actor Paul Muni ("The Story of Louis Pasteur", "Hudsons Bay," "The Life of Emile Zola", and "Juarez" as examples). Both would get deeply involved in portraying the character and have their performance further amplified by costume and make-up. Likewise, both actors made very few films, but all (or at least most) are extremely memorable and excellent. This would have made a great serial of various "spy adventures."

Robert Donat his charming self and Valerie Hobson just lovely. Great story, thanks for uploading.

Its good every time I watch it. Donat was marvelous, always.

Great ending. All too often, spy movies end tragically. During WWII, when intelligence outfits like the OSS, precursor of the CIA, were recruiting specially qualified citizens for dangerous foreign espionage assignments, they certainly didn't want their agents being portrayed as having no chance to survive. In this movie, the underground people were correct to order Maruschuka (Hobson) out of the country since it was likely everyone who lived in that house where the uncompleted emergency phone call was made from would be killed - and she would be tortured into giving up the underground people.

Wonderful. Donat was excellent in 39 Steps, and brings same charm here. Plot credible and acting superb.

Never heard of this. What a wonderful little gem.

Next time I come into this room I might even take off my hat. - What a great line!!! Well delivered!!

Happy, happy birthday dearest Glynis Johns, Grand Dame of British and Hollywood cinema and theatre. Congratulations on reaching the B I G 1 0 0 ! ! ! Thank you for all the wonderful hours of joy and entertainment you have brought to me and to thousands of your adoring fans. Enjoy a glorious day. May you be blessed with many more years of good health and happiness. With lots of love! 05 October 2023

In this movie is a sweetie that is still with us, and has been in many a movie..💓🆘🎭💰🧐💋🗣️📢🎬😍🙏😁🤫 so on the 5th of October 2023 everyone say a happy 💯 Birthday GLINIS JOHNS. LONDONS THINKING OF YOU💋🥂👁️💥👁️💪🎬😅😏 🇬🇧🎭🤩⚖️💋💯

I like the shadow of the Crucifix on the wall in the young girl’s bedroom. It meant she was about to die

Wonderful film, only it broke my heart when little Pavla was shot. Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson were marvellous. Thank you for posting this!

That final sabotage scene reminds me of a James Bond movie or Stars Wars running around the Death Star with the Nazis playing the stormtroopers.

Much better than I expected. In fact, quite an excellent film. Thanks.

Valerie Hobson who played the lead actress was married to John Profumo in real life. He was a member of Parliament and had to resign because of a sex scandal with Christine Keeler, known as the Profumo Affair.

We were so lucky having such wonderful British actors. Robert Donat, Ronald Coleman, James Mason (silky voice) and the beautiful Vivian Leigh💫

Wonderful movie great actor.. Love all his movies.

Donat another great British actor.

Wonderful film filled with talented character actors/actresses, like the sweet woman who plays Donat's mother, and a very young Glynis Johns. There are so many lovely moments, and so much quiet emotion in these quaint old movies from an innocent time; modern-day ones can't hold a candle to them.

Loved it! Thank you for sharing. 👍🏼

Such a good film, two great actors. Thank you.🇬🇧❤️

An absolutely wonderful film, wonderful cast and plot. Thank you for uploading.

My favourite Robert Donat film is "Goodbye Mr. Chips".

The sets of the lab/factory at 1 hour 30 are remarkably well-done.

Always a fan of Tartu since childhood.

US version was Sabotage Agent can be seen on TCM now and again. My favorite Donat Film is 39 Steps.

Truly great Robert Donat performance!!!😃

There are qualities in good films that are evident even over decades. Times change snd styles in acting change . Good is good. Please note Glynnis John’s excellent performance.

Glynis Johns died today.RIP.She was young in this film.

How Western civilization has fallen since these heroes

Another British film good cast

Robert Donat was an amazing actor.

People moaning about lockdown should watch this!

Great WW 2 movie. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Excellent film.

He was great in 39 Steps. Valerie is incomparably the exemplar of British feminine beauty and class.

Great film! Thanks for sharing. ❤🎉😊

How is it I never saw this before always watched his movies on TV?

There were two versions of this movie. Recut for the american market and the original English version.They are noticeably different. See if you can find the other version. Donant was highly regarded in his day, but acted very little - after the 1940's- because of health reasons.

A writer has a strong original idea for a movie. In n order for it to have any chance of getting made he needs to get commissioned to write the n script by a producer of some kind. He n writes a “treatment” which summarises the story and starts approaching producers. They all turn it down for one reason or another. Eventually he gets his commission and a much altered version of what he n wrote opens in cinemas. At roughly the same time three or four other films with very similar plots also open, and everyone says what a weird world the creative arts belong in that they can have coincidences like that.

I love this thriller spy movie. Robert Donat gives an excellent performance as Jan Tartu.

This must be my third time watching! Great film!

Thanks for the movie 😎

Good movie. Dumb title.

I love donat.

Enjoyed this film thank you

Czech was under Austria, then free, then Nazis, then Communists, then with Slovakia, then independent; took over a century …

One of the best WWII Spy movies!!!

After all that hair spinning work, next 2 impossible escape and sweetest of all, got knock out beauty wife, we don't know her hidden beauty bet. her legs. but movie is story of fantasy, so take it as make believe it!

Did she get her dad's factory back when the war ended Thank you my kind of film

Possums, that what a great movie. Donat was delightfully camp in parts.

I love Valerie Hobson since I been watching movies here a couple years

Great movie.

I so enjoyed this! How poignant it is at this moment. I visited Prague not many years after the velvet revolution, my goodness the Czechs have some grit.. all the old Soviet underground trains were made like tanks - rather comfortable too. Everyone had a story to tell, you could taste the optimism in the very air.. ❤ Czechia!

Too bad Tartu wasn't a serial like Bond or Bourne.

This film is full of good things, Robert Donat and Valerie Hobson especially, but for me is dominated by a performance of emotional power by a very young Glynis Johns. Absolutely unforgettable.

I love this movie I have it and have watched it several times.

Good movie thank for the upload

Glynis Johns just turned 100 year old!

I used to watch American movies, the British accent it's too strong for me, I can't understand half they said!

The sets indoors and out all looked overseas. But that cannot be. The war was still going on.

Looking for good films, "The Journey" Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr... and Reuters with Edward G Robinson.

They need to record these great old movies at a higher volume. I had to turn off the A/C to even barely hear this one.

The Romanian Iron Guard shocked even the Nazi's by their enthusiastic and vigorous imprisonment and slaughter of Romanian Jews. (I'm always impressed by British wartime films. They couldn't have had much money or time for that matter.)

Excellent movie and enjoyable, worth seeing multiple times.

Donat❤️💯👏🏽

Robert donat n cornel Wilde n laird cregar all ahead of their time...4vay with me love them a lot n vice-versa.

Wonderful movie. Robert Donat is so charming and quite the gentleman, he reminds me of William Powell. Glynis Johns was such a delight. I remember her in Mary Poppins.

Robert Donat is amaaaazing, every bit as charismatic as Brad Pitt, Robert Deniro, or Tom Cruise. (Growing up, I'd never seen Glynis Johns as a young woman in movies; also a wonderful actress.)

This is a very good spy movie!!!

This the the second Czech movie about the WWII Underground where one of the good guys is Dr. Novotny, and in real life, a post-War communist leader that was hated by everyone was another Novotny. Popular name or ? I don't like the 'comedy' parts, but this was a good movie, and a break from watching the heavy WWII stuff. Donat= :)

Curious to look at english version of Stierlitz)

"There's something about him".

Thank you , I enjoyed watching it. Robert Donat at his best again🤩❣

A little gem, though from the escape sequence from the factory on, a bit over the top. Historical note: the Nazis stockpiled nerve gas during the war, but Hitler refused to allow it to be used, even when Germany started losing the war. Britain also stockpiled chemical weapons, but Churchill's policy was Britain would not use them first.

"Next time I come into this room, I might even take off my hat." Saw this 'line' mentioned already within the comments section but wanted type out myself b/c it's so uniquely clever. I love it.

So, apparently, all you need to get by in Romania is a bad French-Italian accent. If only I'd realised!

Glynis Johns is still living. A hundred years old or so.

1938 movies were truly interesting. Black & White movies weren't so bad! Very enjoyable to watch these stories

This was filmed at Gainsborough studios

Is this a John Buchan story?

I am romanian and I tell you, there is NO such name like TARTU in romanian...there is however a TARTU -City in ESTONIA but NOT related to Romania...once again lack of imagination and interest towards east european names and toponymics as always....

Would have been great if the sound wasn't like talking through two bags of wet rice, wrapped in box of man-sized Kleenex!

Some of these adventures were to hard to take. They pulled on our heart strings during difficult times in Milan.

Truley, a great movie, Donat is great.....Along with his other movie of the COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, and so many others.

The young Glynis Johns bears an uncanny resemblance to Jenny Agutter!

Wonderful movie!

Thank you for posting... enjoyed the movie. Since, I have found and bought the DVD and added to my collection -- only sad thing is that there were no further adventures of tartu 😢

Far better than James Bond ever thought of being. Great picture, but why did they leave their landlady accomplice behind with the dead German in her house ? Collateral damage, I presume.

Thank you to upload