W.J. Hemsley

PelĂ­culas

Variety Jubilee
Art Direction
This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Art Direction
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Against the Tide
Art Direction
A Cornish fishing village is struck by tragedy.
Catch as Catch Can
Art Direction
On board a luxury liner, young Barbara Standish attempts to smuggle stolen jewels from France to America
Strange Experiment
Art Direction
Doctors perform brain surgery to reform a hardened criminal
Irish and Proud of It
Art Direction
An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that American gangsters are forcing the local publicans to buy illegally-produced raw spirit with which to adulterate branded products.