Fred Groves

Películas

Your Witness
Dart Player #6
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
My Brother's Keeper
Landlord
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
My Brother Jonathan
Lisha Hodgkiss
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Un marido ideal
Phipps
Un destacado político está preparado para destapar un escándalo financiero. Pero una mujer, que ha invertido fuertemente en el turbio negocio, lo amenaza con desvelar un secreto dañino de su pasado si hace público el fraude. Su problema se ve agravado por la intolerancia de su esposa hacia los defectos más insignificantes de su carácter.
21 días juntos
Barnes
Larry Durrant mata accidentalmente al marido chantajista de su amante Wanda. La policía detiene a un sospechoso, que es condenado a muerte. Larry y Wanda sólo tienen tres semanas para estar juntos y decidir si Larry debe entregarse o dejar que muera un inocente.
The Challenge
Favre
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Strange Boarders
uncredited
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
The Squeaker
Martin
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Beloved Impostor
Jack Harding
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
Royal Eagle
QUota quickie crime drama.
Dance Band
Pantomime Act
Durante un concurso de bandas, el líder de una banda de baile se enamora de su competencia: el líder de una orquesta de chicas.
The Old Curiosity Shop
Showman
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
The Ghost Camera
Barnaby Rudd, landlord
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Puppets of Fate
Arthur Brandon
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Dick Morgan
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
Out of the Blue
Bannister Blair
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.
Sally in Our Alley
Alf Cope
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
Escape!
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
Suspense
Pvt. Lomax
During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
The Crimson Circle
Inspector Parr
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Florence Nightingale
Doctor
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
The Suicide Club
The Idol of Paris
Philippe Castelle
A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.
Inquisitive Ike
Fred
A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.
Beautiful Jim
Lt. Jim Beresford
A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.
Black-Eyed Susan
Wiliam Lorman
A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.
Her Luck in London
Richard Lenowen
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
The Cup Final Mystery
A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?
Bridegrooms Beware!
Bridegroom
A comedy feature with Fred Groves having dual roles of bridegroom and a lunatic, and in the course of the film the two characters swap places.
Popsy Wopsy
Composer
A composer gets drunk on the proceeds of a song and sees his furniture dancing.
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
William Corder
A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.