During World War II, a British commando unit is tasked with disrupting the operations of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Libyan Desert.
In Rocketship X-M, a group of brave astronauts sets out on a mission to Mars. Along the way, they face various challenges and dangers, including a rocket crash and encounters with an alien civilization. The movie explores the themes of space travel, outer space, and the potential consequences of nuclear war.
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
When a bumbling police force in a small village gets tangled in an adventure involving poaching, politics, and a radio broadcast, hilarity ensues. The officers must navigate through a series of comedic mishaps while trying to maintain law and order.
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
A British crime film directed by John Longden
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
A British drama film directed by Denison Clift
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!
A British musical film directed by George Pearson
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.
A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.
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