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- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGregory RatoffJohn LoderBenita HumeThis rousing circus adventure from 1935 was also known as This Woman is Mine. Director Monty Banks, who began his career as an actor in the early days of the silent era, works with an impressive cast, including Gregory Ratoff, John Loder, Benita Hume, and Richard Bennett. For movie buffs: Katharine Sergava, who plays Lida, was an internationally revered ballerina.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsBud FlanaganChesney AllenMary LawsonA pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsGeorge CarneyMary ClareDiana Beaumont
- DirectorKarl GruneStarsFritz KortnerNils AstherJohn StuartIn 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.
- DirectorVictor HanburyStarsWynne GibsonGordon HarkerAnthony BushellFilm star Gloria Gunn encounters her rejected leading man posing as the leader of Chinese bandits.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsHarry MiltonPearl ArgyleSebastian ShawThree friends expose a plot against the ex-president of a South American country.
- DirectorWalter TennysonStarsMolly LamontFrederick BradshawBen WeldenInventor Jack Lawton is framed for a murder committed by a gang during a robbery.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsMorton SeltenEva MooreJane CarrA film company offers penniless Lord Spendlove money for the loan of his mansion.
- DirectorHarry HughesStarsArchie PittJoan GardnerGus McNaughtonA sailor is torn between his wife and child and his passion for the sea.
- DirectorMax MackStarsBobbie ComberBertha BelmoreCecil Ramage
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsGeorge RobeyHorace HodgesEve Lister
- DirectorRalph InceStarsTamara DesniRalph InceBruce Seton
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWill HayGordon HarkerJimmy HanleyWill Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his (to be ) famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (J.B. Morton, "Beachcomber")
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsJack BuchananLili DamitaNancy O'NeilJack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsBetty BalfourJohn MillsBarry MacKayIn 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsJack HulbertFay WrayRalph RichardsonBulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car crashes and Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth. He is enlisted to help Ann Manders find her jeweler grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of crooks who want him to copy a valuable necklace they want to steal. Their plan backfires in the British Museum and the film climaxes in an exciting chase on a runaway train in the London Underground.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsClaude HulbertJane CarrFelix AylmerAdapted from a play, this has Claude Hulbert in the lead role as a young poultry farmer who decides to expand into the business of film production. Mayhem ensues with Claude receiving assistance from his "floor secretary", Nancy O'Neill.
- DirectorLeslie PearceStarsSandy PowellMary LawsonPaul ThomsonSandy Powell gives up his job as a Yorkshire mill-worker and travels to London to seek his fortune as a comedian. On the train he finds an abandoned baby, which he is obliged to look after.
- DirectorRalph CederStarsLeslie FullerGeorgie HarrisD.J. Williams
- DirectorGraham CuttsAustin MelfordStarsJohn MillsMark LesterNorah HowardA pretty young factory worker is window-shopping at a Rolls-Royce dealership, and dreamily mentions that she would love to have a car like that. The son of the factory's owner happens to be there and, falling for her, winds up buying the car for her. He doesn't tell her who he is, but he doesn't know that she is one of his father's employees. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJohn MillsJune ClydeDerek Oldham
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsFelix AylmerEvelyn FosterSally GrayAn under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsEmlyn WilliamsSophie StewartEve ListerA young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father and only realizes after various tribulations that she should follow her heart rather than her head.
- DirectorOswald MitchellChallis SandersonStarsGeorge CarneyMarie LohrRonnie HepworthAn engine driver forced into retirement following an accident finds consolation in his son
- DirectorNorman McLarenAccording researchers, a five minute abstract film using live action, slow motion and shots showing the interplay of lights on colored paper; its accompanying gramophone record married so well that the film was perceived as a sound film. But the film no longer exists: its only version was worn out by repeated screenings at the Glasgow School of Art.
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsJack BuchananFay WrayJames CarewA British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses, he finds himself stranded in America with no money and many bills. By chance, Robert meets the old family butler, Eccles, who is now working in New York for the wealthy Beach-Howard family. Eccles helps Roberts to take up employment as a footman in the Beach-Howard household. Robert becomes romantically involved with the young niece, Hilda Beach-Howard. She begins to suspect his true identity. Robert's elder brother arrives in New York to find out what has happened to his sibling. The bank that holds Robert's money reopens, and Robert proposes marriage to Hilda whilst serving dinner. She accepts his proposal.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsEsmond KnightLilli PalmerCecil ParkerAn undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsIan ColinMarjorie HumeEvelyn Foster
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsJohn GarrickWinifred ShotterStanley HollowayMajor John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersJune ClydeJune HartDuring a band contest, the leader of a dance band falls in love with his competition--the leader of an all-girl's orchestra.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsWill HayNancy BurneEsmond KnightA church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsTamara DesniLeon QuartermaineHugh BrookeIt is a psychological drama involving conflict between two brothers.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChili BouchierRobert DouglasMiles ManderThe race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsHenry KendallGarry MarshWally Patch(1935) Henry Kendall, Eve Gray, Jeanne Stuart, Garry Marsh, Wally Patch. A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed. A Gritty British crime film. From 16mm.
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsJack MelfordSebastian ShawGarry MarshThe heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsStarsMatheson LangAthene SeylerJane BaxterFaced with a Spanish conspiracy, Queen Elizabeth gives the pirate Drake carte blanche to raid a Spanish settlement and plunder that country's wealth.
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsJohn WilliamsGeorge HayesMary GlynneEmil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerHugh SinclairGriffith JonesA married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
- DirectorIvar CampbellStarsLucille LisleLeslie PerrinsMolly Fisher
- DirectorWilfred NoyWalter TennysonStarsThomas F. BurkeJean AdrienneRobert ChisholmMacushlah was raised by Father O'Flynn after her father had deserted her when she was a young girl. Her father, recently released from prison, is trying to illegally deprive her of an inheritance. Can Father O'Flynn and Nigel, who is in love with Macushlah, defeat the scheme of her father and his crooked partner?
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsRalph LynnRobertson HareOn a fishing holiday, irascible Sir Donald Rowley (Walls) is soon at loggerheads with neighbour Rivers. Then nephew Sidney (Lynn) falls for Rivers' stepdaughter. All kinds of complications ensue.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsSonnie HaleAnna LeeElizabeth dreams of being a music-hall singer. She gets to know Victor, that quite unexpectedly gets a female part in a music-hall number. He unfortunately finds himself voiceless, so, why wouldn't Elizabeth replace him in it?
- DirectorDonovan PedeltyStarsGwenllian GillBarry CliftonBruce SetonClifton is an English spy in Scotland during the Jacobite Rebellion. He is taken in by the Cameron Clan, and falls in love with the master's daughter. And he saves her life, they return to England.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsRalph LynnRobertson HareUpper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsRene RayGarry MarshGraham PockettA burglar breaks into a house and steals a will, then steals it again in order to give it to a pretty young heiress.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsEdward RigbyMoore MarriottRuby MillerA woman with a new baby and no husband takes refuge in the home of two brothers in an English village. One of the brothers gets involved with a woman who runs off with his money.
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsFrederick PeisleyVivien LeighAnthony HollesA young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMax MillerJane CarrChili BouchierFarcical comedy. Max Miller, as Herbert Cronkite, is a Smithfield meat porter who made to think that he has drowned a man and so goes on as a tramp, eventually becoming a butler in a country house in Sussex. The few opening Smithfield and waterside scenes are made with an air of some reality and the butlering scenes give Max Miller opportunities for knockabout humour and a few digs at the huntin' and ridin' crowd - not very much is made of his fear of arrest. The situations include a bedroom scenes and a farcical hunt. As a whole the film is amusing although the humour is ponderous.
- DirectorRandall FayeStarsMolly LamontJack HobbsJames Finlayson
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsRichard TauberLeonora CorbettCarl HarbordAn impresario's sister touring Europe discovers the talent of a popular Viennese singer and persuades him to sign an operatic contract in England, reluctant as he is to leave his homeland. Beautifully sung music in a well done British production, one of the few starring Austrian tenor Richard Tauber.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsAlbert BurdonCyril MaudeLes AllenA greengrocer from England becomes involved in a South American revolution.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsClaude HulbertGregory RatoffJane CarrA young poultry farmer is flattered and inveigled into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsHugh WilliamsViola KeatsFrancis L. SullivanThe wife of a politician is found dead at a country inn, where she had been seen with the politician's secretary, Alan. He is the immediate suspect but has a valid alibi.
- DirectorLeo MittlerStarsStanley LupinoRobert EnglishDennis HoeyThe trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her angry father, a financier, finds out.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsGreta NissenPatric KnowlesMargaret LockwoodHonours Easy is a 1935 British drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Greta Nissen, Patric Knowles and Margaret Lockwood. It follows a man who tries to take revenge on a rival for a slight seventeen years before by framing his son for theft. It was based on the play Honours Easy by Roland Pertwee.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsBinnie HaleGordon HarkerGibb McLaughlinIn this British farce, a legendary duel is destined to be repeated in an old house at Hyde Park Corner when the two descendants of the original combatants mysteriously reconvene. Based on Walter Hackett's play.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsGitta AlparPatrick WaddingtonOwen NaresJeanne works at a millinery shop. She is sent to Louis XV's palace with a hat for Madame de Pompadour, then meets a musician at the park and they fall in love, despite the fortune-teller announcing she will become rich and live in luxury.
- DirectorHerbert SmithStarsJack BartyDave ApollonBilly Merrin
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsAustin TrevorGeorge HayesGarry MarshA French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
- DirectorPaul MerzbachStarsLilian HarveyWendy ToyeCarl EsmondIn the Napoleonic era of the early 19th century, a ballerina moves thru Europe putting on different identities and becomes the mistress of a German Duke so he will sign a treaty beneficial to her country of England.
- DirectorRobert WylerCarol ReedStarsJohn LoderNancy BurneEdward H. RobinsPaul, artistically-inclined son of an American millionaire, moves to Paris where he can find inspiration and study the masters. While there, he finds inspiration of a different sort in the form of the beautiful Jacqueline.
- DirectorAlexander EswayStarsGene GerrardHelen ChandlerJudy KellyA young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsJimmy O'DeaGuy MiddletonVera SherborneAn elevator attendant at a London hotel foils a gang of spies.
- DirectorHarry HughesStarsGene GerrardZelma O'NealBetty Ann DaviesAfter their car breaks down, two men-about-town and their girlfriends are obliged to spend a night in a manor house owned by the fearsome Lady Clara.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsBelle ChrystallFred ConynghamReginald PurdellActress Mary ( Belle Chrystall) marries Victor (Fred Conyngham) an impoverished young composer. As he becomes more successful the marriage comes under strain.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsConrad VeidtHelen VinsonNoah BeeryAn educated convict and prisoner leads a group of other inmates in a rebellion against the cruel authority figures before one of their own gets executed.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsPierre FresnayElissa LandiJohn LodgeVignerte, a preceptor at the court of a German principality, falls in love with Princess Aurore, whose first husband died under mysterious circumstances. Vignerte suspects the deceased's brother to be responsible for the death.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsJames MasonVirginia CherrillAlastair SimA newspaper reporter sets out to track down a cop killer.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsIan HunterClaire LuceBernard NedellAristocrat's inheritance issues. Marries heiress expecting wealth, but she's disinherited too. Cousin arrives, complicating their financial struggles further amid societal pressures.
- DirectorFrederick HaywardStarsJohn StuartNora SwinburneNancy BurneJeff imagines he's in love with his wife's best friend and runs off with her, but is soon disillusioned by her antics, such as smashing his car.
- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsHenry KendallKathleen KellyCyril Smith
- DirectorBasil DeanStarsGracie FieldsVivien LeighDouglas WakefieldGutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
- DirectorMax Mack
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Laura La PlanteClaude HulbertMary, who is infatuated with her boss, discovers that he is having an affair with one of her coworkers. Despondent, she leaves work and overhearing news of a suicide, impulsively decides to drown herself in the river. She turns out to be an incompetent suicide, however, and while splashing about in the water, an apparently wealthy and dashing figure, Tony, drives up in his sports car and jumps in to save her. He takes her home to get her dry and to keep her from hurting herself--but his wealthy fiancee arrives and she assumes the worst and breaks off their engagement. Tony then reveals to Mary that he's broke, with only 300 pounds to his name. Now--each despondent--they both begin to talk of doing themselves in when tickets for Monte Carlo, which was to be his honeymoon destination, arrive. In a sudden bit of screwball inspiration, they decide to go to Monte Carlo and bet their little stake on an all or nothing bid to build a fortune for themselves. Its either win, or they both jump into the Mediterranean--a double suicide. Will fortune smile on this pair, or will it be into the drink for them?
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsTod SlaughterSophie StewartD.J. WilliamsIn 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by a villainous Squire's promises of marriage, and when she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gypsy lad is blamed.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsJohn DeverellSonnie HaleJudy Kelly
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsJack DoyleTamara DesniHenry MollisonA stowaway becomes mixed up with gunrunners.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsCicely CourtneidgeTom WallsBarry MacKayIn 1709, Kit Ross (Cicely Courtneidge) disguises herself as a man and joins the army to search for her press-ganged husband.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsHughie GreenMargaret LockwoodHarry TateA young man runs away to sea but finds more adventures than he was expecting.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Gertrude LawrenceDiana NapierThe story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsHarry BaurPenelope Dudley-WardLaurence OlivierDuring World War I, Russian Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove to be dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsPaul GraetzViolet FarebrotherChili BouchierThis is a story about Mr. Cohen, a father who owns a large department store in London and cares about being a good shopkeeper and good person. Mr. Cohen's elder son and a friend's son work there and have slowly taken on more and more responsibility with the inadvertent result that Mr Cohen has begun to feel unimportant. Mr. Cohen longs to start over with a small shop to regain what he feels he has lost. One subplot involves Mr. Cohen's attempts to remain relevant by helping a small shopkeeper both before and after a major life event for the family. Another subplot involves his younger son's marriage decision and Mr. Cohen's involvement. Mr. Cohen ultimately takes a trip for distraction and looks at buying a small shop. Just in time to save the day, he realizes that he is needed at home after all.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsSeymour HicksOlive BlakeneyEnid Stamp-TaylorA beautician meets and falls in love with a young man, and they soon marry. What she doesn't know, however, is that her new husband is actually a millionaire who is suffering from amnesia--and he already has a wife.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsErrol FlynnEve GrayPaul GraetzA professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsJan KiepuraMártha EggerthSonnie HaleAn opera troupe travels to Monte Carlo where they have been engaged to perform Tosca. During the trip Mario, the tenor, finds a stowaway girl hidden in his cabin and helps her get a passage. Then the Monte Carlo opera owner turns the company down but is willing to know her better, quickly warming Mario's temper.
- DirectorHerbert SmithStarsHenry OscarHope DavyC.M. HallardOn the overnight Aberdeen mail train, demented violinist Mancini (Henry Oscar) attempts to murder judge Sir Jacob March (C.M. Hallard) for refusing to grant him a divorce.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGeorge FormbyFlorence DesmondHoward DouglasGeorge Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsGene GerrardJune ClydeRenee HoustonTo help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.
- DirectorArthur MertzStarsGeorge FormbyDan YoungConstance ShotterWithout a job, a young man is given the opportunity run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.