Old Man in T.V. Show Audience (uncredited)
A causa de las graves presiones que recibe, un periodista ha intentado suicidarse en varias ocasiones. Pero ahora ha decidido fundar una publicación para contar la verdad, sin miedo a represalias. Para financiarla, recurre al chantaje de varias personalidades. Los problemas aparecerán cuando un presentador de televisión se le resista. (FILMAFFINITY)
Club Porter
Singapur, 1942. Un submarino japonés lanza un torpedo contra un buque. Cuatro de los pasajeros (dos hombres blancos, un hombre negro y una mujer que decide ocultar el hecho de que es monja) suben a una balsa y quedan a la deriva en alta mar. Después de varios días de sufrimiento, la balsa llega hasta una isla desierta, donde el náufrago negro, al que uno de los blancos trata con desprecio, encuentra un machete muy útil que se niega a dejar a los demás.
Porter
En la primavera de 1943, un vecino de Punta Umbría descubrió, mientras pescaba en ”El Portil”, el cuerpo sin vida de un militar inglés junto con los restos de una balsa neumática. Sin saberlo, aquel pescador, acababa de encontrar al hombre que nunca existió: la operación ”Mincemeat” había comenzado.
Scientist
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Spencer Simon
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Tudsbury
Adaptación de una obra teatral de Harold Brighouse, ambientada en 1890. Trata sobre las relaciones entre un próspero comerciante viudo y sus hijas, a las que mantiene encerradas en casa, mientras se dedica a lamentarse y a despotricar contra lo injusta que es la vida por haberle arrebatado a su esposa.
Sir William Collinge
Dos hermanos millonarios de avanzada edad deciden hacer una apuesta: uno de ellos afirma que, si le regalan un talón de un millón de libras a un hombre sin recursos, con la única condición de no utilizarlo durante un mes, podrá salir adelante. El otro sostiene lo contrario. Eligen a un abogado americano que está arruinado y se encuentra en Londres solo y sin amigos. Al recibir el dinero su vida dará un vuelco.
Morton
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
Foreman
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Schoolmaster
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Emery
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
Godwin
Hace veinte años que el tímido Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) se encarga de supervisar el traslado de los cargamentos de oro del banco inglés en el que trabaja; pero llega un momento en que, harto de su gris y anodina vida, idea un ingenioso plan para llevar a cabo un espectacular robo en el banco: se trata de trasladar el oro de Inglaterra a Francia en forma de souvenirs de la Torre Eiffel.
Wilderkin
En el siglo XIII, un noble inglés (Tyrone Power) se ve forzado a abandonar su país, después de encabezar una fallida rebelión contra el rey. Acompañado de un amigo (Jack Hawkins) decide viajar a Mongolia, donde conocerá a un poderoso "señor de la guerra" (Orson Welles).
Googin (uncredited)
Harry Fabian trabaja a comisión como gancho de un club, pero es ambicioso y sueña con hacerse independiente. Para conseguirlo no dudará en embaucar al campeón del mundo de lucha greco-romana para que se enfrente a su hijo Kristo, que controla la lucha en Londres.
Bird Seller
1806: Un oficial del Ejército obtiene de una avejentada condesa el secreto para ganar perpetuamente a las cartas. Lo malo es que esta lo obtuvo a través de un pacto con el Diablo.
Mr. Pontefact
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Mr. Sowerberry
Inglaterra, siglo XIX. Famosa adaptación de la novela homónima de Charles Dickens. Oliver es un niño huérfano al que su madre, una joven soltera, abandonó a las puertas de un orfanato. Para librarse de él, el malvado director de la institución, decide venderlo a un empresario como aprendiz de su taller. Cansado de los malos tratos que recibe, huye y acaba uniéndose a un grupo de pequeños rateros que viven bajo la férula de un viejo tiránico.
uncredited
Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the bridegroom. More mayhem ensues as the three kidnappers soon end up dead.
High Priest (uncredited)
Poco después de haber ocupado el trono de Egipto, la bella Cleopatra recibe la visita del general romano Julio César. La relación amorosa que se establece entre ellos tendrá también provechosas repercusiones en el terreno político y militar.
Doctor at Duel (uncredited)
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Marcel
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Butler
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Rev. Sheepshanks
Un manitas y un artista aficionado se mete en problemas cuando se agregan cuerpos femeninos desnudos a las cabezas que ha dibujado de damas prominentes y se venden como anuncios de jabón.
Indian Chief (as Gibb Mc Laughlin)
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Gibb
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
Dr. Weiner
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Colonel Ludwig
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Sheriff
Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent to offer to write up Jill's story.....
Dr MacGregor
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Alfred Cooper
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
Ship's Steward
El Dr. Twist tiene que posar en un revestimiento como un profesor famoso y se le pide que sea el tutor de Bernie, el hijo de un millonario. Para evitar preguntas incómodas sobre inmigración en Estados Unidos, Twist solicita la ayuda de un gángster para que lo introduzca de contrabando en el país. Pero dos bandas rivales planean secuestrar a Bernie, ¡y Twist se vuelve, er, retorcido!
Bank Manager
Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?
Mr. J.G. Reeder
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
Rev. Cuppleditch
Archie, un joven, hereda un establo para carreras de caballos, y su tía intenta convencerlo de que lo convierta en un hogar para chicas trabajadoras durante las vacaciones. Sin embargo, Archie es un jugador empedernido y, antes de que se dé cuenta, se mezcla con dos estafadores y una arena de lucha que acaba de quebrar.
Jacques
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
Martin, The Butler
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Evil Eye
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
De Brissac
Jeanne trabaja en una sombrerería. La envían al palacio de Luis XV con un sombrero para Madame de Pompadour, luego conoce a un músico en el parque y se enamoran, a pesar de que la adivina anuncia que se hará rica y vivirá en el lujo.
Denny
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Old Soldier
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Don Enriquez
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Sir Arthur Gannett
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
The Barber
Sir Percy Blakeney es un dandy miembro de la aristocracia inglesa, que en realidad oculta la identidad de La Pimpinela Escarlata, un héroe justiciero que combate las injusticias de la Revolución Francesa rescatando a sus víctimas de la guillotina y trasladándolas a un lugar seguro en Inglaterra. (FILMAFFINITY)
Thomas Stubbings
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Sampson Brass
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.
Talleyrand
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Thompson
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
The Caliph's Vizier
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
General Korensky
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bestujhev
En 1745, una princesa austro-húngara, que sería llamada Catalina, llega a Rusia para casarse con el Gran Duque Pedro, un hombre de carácter inestable y desconfiado. Su matrimonio no funciona y mientras el Duque se entretiene con bellas cortesanas, Catalina inventa sus propios amantes para captar su atención. Cuando el Duque llega al trono de Rusia, resulta ser un pésimo gobernante y los consejeros piden a Catalina que asuma el poder y se convierta en reina.
Bauernfeld
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Governor of Newgate
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
Florist
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
The French Executioner
En mayo de 1536, justo después de la ejecución de su segunda esposa Ana Bolena (Merle Oberon), Enrique VIII (Charles Laughton) se casa con Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), que muere 18 meses después. A continuación desposa a la princesa alemana Anne de Cleves (Elsa Lanchester), pero el matrimonio acaba en divorcio. Su quinta esposa, la bella y ambiciosa Katherine Howard (Binnie Barnes), se enamora del cortesano Enrique Thomas Culpeper (Robert Donat), pero el idilio es descubierto y ambos son ejecutados.
Sir Grant Rayburn
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Florey
'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
Baron Popov
While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.
Westerbrook
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Count Velovsky
Antinea, la reina de la Atlántida, gobierna su reino secreto oculta detrás del desierto del Sahara. Un día dos exploradores perdidos dan con su reino.
Dr. Schilling
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda
Augustus Bethersyde
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Hodge
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
Sgt. Elk
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Butler
'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)
Max's Orderly
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again
Abdul - and Egyptian
A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.
Mr. Hearty
For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
Bibikoff
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
Littleton Pardmore
A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart
Ping Pong
'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)
Jim Sears
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
Charlie
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
William
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
Bill Henshaw
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Chung-Li
A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.
The Electrician
A shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
Chang Fu
A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.
Henry Coaker
El granjero Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) acaba de perder a su esposa, y tras haber casado a su única hija, ha quedado solo con su leal ama de llaves, Araminta (Lilian Hall-Davis) y con su ayudante Churdles Ash (Gordon Harker). Pensando entonces en volver a casarse, Sweetland hará una lista de los mejores prospectos que podría encontrar entre sus conocidas y su propósito, desde entonces, será conquistar a alguna de ellas.
Jock
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
Shorty Bill
An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.
Comte Maurepas
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
Ah Kwang
A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.
An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
Duke of York
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.
Captain Florenstein
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
