John Reynders

Birth : 1888-03-09, Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Death : 1953-01-06

Movies

Bush Christmas
Conductor
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Music
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house.
Ireland's Border Line
Musical Casting
Billy Brannigan, a mechanic, has some difficulties and problems when he gets mixed up with the police looking for a jewel thief. An identical suitcase used by Billy and the thief cause most of the troubles.
The Last Chance
Music
Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall, a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence, but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...
Saturday Night Revue
John Reynders - Orchestra Leader
There are two clubs in London called Moons; one in Mayfair and one in Soho. Mary Dorland is singing at the cheap one, but her father, who does not approve of her singing career, believes she is performing at the Society one...
Let's Ask the Ladies
Conductor
Mannequins in Co-operative Wholesale Society window come to life.
The Immortal Gentleman
Music
In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays.
Dance Pretty Lady
Music Director
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
Out of the Blue
Orchestra Leader
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Out of the Blue
Music Director
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Many Waters
Music Director
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
The Flying Fool
Original Music Composer
Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....
Fascination
Music Director
Madeleine Carroll stars as a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple, in this light-hearted melodrama from Miles Mander.
Let's Love and Laugh
Music Director
A comedy film directed by Richard Eichberg
Dreyfus
Music Arranger
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Cape Forlorn
Music
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
The Gripper
Music Director
Murder!
Music Director
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Murder!
Original Music Composer
When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Two Worlds
Music Director
An old Jew is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Loose Ends
Music Director
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Music Director
A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Harmony Heaven
Music Director
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.
The Flame of Love
Music Director
In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
Hai-Tang. Der Weg zur Schande
Music Director
The W Plan
Original Music Composer
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Raise the Roof
Music Director
The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starring Maisie Grey. His father, fearing scandal, bribes amoral actor Atherley Armitage to sabotage the show. But, when all hope seems lost, Maisie comes up with an ingenious idea to try and save the day.
Knowing Men
Music Director
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Atlantic
Music
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
Alf's Carpet
Music Director
Busmen find a magic carpet and save a girl's father from the caliph.
The Informer
Music Arranger
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
The Informer
Conductor
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
The American Prisoner
Music
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
Blackmail
Conductor
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
The Lady from the Sea
Music
Handsome young fisherman Tom Roberts is among the crew of a lifeboat that rescues Frenchwoman Claire le Grange, sole survivor of a shipwreck on the treacherous Goodwin Sands. Tom's marriage to his own sweetheart, Mary, is postponed owing to injuries he sustained in the dramatic rescue, and during his convalescence he falls for the charms of the flirtatious Claire.
Champagner
Music Director
A 1929 British-Austrian romance film directed by Géza von Bolváry.
The Land of the Shamrock
Music Director
'The Glanhowy Singers perform several Irish songs to a backdrop of Irish country scenes and images. Songs include: Young May Noon, The Harp that Once Thro' Tara's Halls, Cruiskeen Lawn, Celtic Lament, Killarney, The Minstrel Boy.' (British Film Institute)