A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
When an American man gets caught in a foreign country, he becomes a prisoner and must find a way to escape. This drama film explores the challenges he faces and the emotional journey he goes through.
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.
Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)
A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson
Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.