Herbert Smith

Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.

A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

This is the story of the early life and rise to fame of Tommy Steele. His manager wanted him to be a tough rock'n'roller and so challenge Elvis Presley but Tommy is too nice.

Un hombre recuerda sus relaciones con las mujeres que amó, mientras intenta ayudar a otro hombre a tratar de comprenderlas.

The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II. Smith makes the acquaintance of a group of orphans, Jewish refugees of the concentration camps. It takes some doing, but Smith wins the love and trust of these displaced youngsters. Like most government-funded Israeli productions of the early 1950s, Faithful City is designed more to instruct and inform than entertain. That it happens to be entertaining in the bargain is all the more reason to seek out this extremely rare film.

El capitan William Bones, un viejo lobo de mar, llega enfermo a la posada de la madre de Jim Haxkins y antes de morir, entrega a Jim el mapa del tesoro del pirata Flint, recomendándole que esté prevenido contra el hombre de la pata de palo. Jim se lo cuenta todo al Sr. Trelawney y al doctor Livesey y juntos deciden emprender la búsqueda del tesoro. Contratan una tripulación y parten hacia la isla donde está escondido el tesoro. En mitad de la travesía, Jim se da cuenta de que la mayoría de la tripulación son piratas de Flint y de que el cocinero, un hombre con la pata de palo, llamado John Silver el largo, es el antiguo contramaestre de Flint, contra el que le previno el capitán Bones. Al llegar a la isla, los piratas, al mando de John Silver se amotinan y emprenden la lucha contra Jim, Trelawney, Livesey y los marineros fieles, para conseguir el mapa del tesoro

The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.

Basada en una obra teatral de Kenneth Woollard. Después de sufrir un accidente, la tripulación de un submarino lucha por sobrevivir. Cuando acabó el rodaje, un submarino de nombre profético, el HMS Truculent, se hundía en el Támesis causando 64 víctimas. El film de Roy Ward Baker estuvo a punto de ser "archivado" para siempre, pero, finalmente, se estrenó incluyendo un mensaje en recuerdo de las víctimas y de todos los integrantes de la Marina Británica.

A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.

Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.

Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

El padre de Evelyn, una niña internada en un orfanato, ha estado escribiendo a su hija, que no lo recuerda, cartas fantasiosas sobre su éxito en los negocios. En realidad, se ha hecho pasar por un amigo, Adam, un apuesto jugador. Cuando el padre muere, Adam se lleva a la chica del orfanato y le dicen la verdad. Pero la niña se ha convertido en una mujer de extraordinaria belleza y surgen complicaciones, incluyendo las que crea Roddy, hermano de Adam, una auténtica oveja negra.

Con la necesidad de obtener dinero en efectivo, Roger Cavendish y su mayordomo toman un trabajo que consiste en escoltar una noche a la mujer perfecta. Se trata de Olga, la creación robótica del profesor Belman; pero resulta que en realidad es Penelope, la sobrina de Belman, haciendo una buena imitación de la perfecta Olga.

Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.

Después de haber asesinado a su hermano, el rey de Dinamarca, Claudius se casa con la reina y ocupa el trono danés. En medio del dolor, al príncipe Hamlet se le aparece el fantasma de su padre reclamando venganza contra su asesino. Hamlet decide entonces contratar a una compañía de actores ambulantes para que representen en la corte una obra en la que se muestra el asesinato de un rey a manos de su hermano y en idénticas circunstancias. Hamlet espera ver cómo la reacción de su tío confirma su culpa.

Ligera comedia amorosa en la que un playboy que vive en una zona vacacional presume de que no hay mujer que se le pueda resistir. Sin embargo, su ego cae por los suelos cuando conoce a una actriz que está por la zona de incógnito, y que no parece hacerle demasiado caso. Ante tamaña afrenta, el hombre decide seducirla a cualquier precio... incluido el matrimonio.

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.

Irlanda, principios del siglo XX. Johnny McQueen es uno de los militantes más importantes del Sinn Fein, el brazo político del IRA (1905), cuyo objetivo es la independencia de Irlanda. La necesidad de conseguir fondos para financiar la lucha armada lo lleva a elaborar un plan para atracar un banco.

El inspector Cockrill nos cuenta esta historia: mientras Londres está en alerta máxima por la caída de las bombas volantes alemanas, debe resolver el caso de las muertes acaecidas en un hospital de emergencia rural. Basado en "Green for Danger" de Christianna Brand.

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and attempt to take them to healthier land away from disease-infestation.

Guerra de los Cien Años. Tras una vida disoluta, Enrique V (1413-1422) hereda el trono de Inglaterra y toma conciencia de sus responsabilidades. En 1415 reúne un ejército de 30.000 hombres y reanuda la guerra contra los franceses. Ese mismo año los derrota en la batalla de Azincourt y, a continuación, ocupa Normandía y París.

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.

Listos para luchar y morir por su país, un grupo de civiles de toda clase y condición se someten a un entrenamiento básico ante el inminente estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Aunque al principio se quejan de la rígida disciplina que implica su nuevo régimen de vida, no tardan en adaptarse y adquirir las habilidades necesarias para cumplir con su cometido, además de sentirse orgullosos de ello. Durante su participación en la invasión del norte de África, su barco será alcanzado por los alemanes. (FILMAFFINITY)

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.

Cuenta la historia de siete mujeres británicas de clase alta que deciden ayudar durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Cuenta la historia del destructor HMS Torrin, desde su construcción hasta su hundimiento por aviones alemanes en la batalla de Creta, Segunda Guerra Mundial. El único capitán que tuvo fue E.V. Kinross, experimentado marino que entrena a sus hombres, no sólo para que le sean leales, sino para que lo sean a su país y a ellos mismos. Se enfrentarán a retos en el mar y en casa, perderán a compañeros en el mar y seres queridos en casa, pero cumplirán su misión con heroísmo y valentía.

In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.

British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.

'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)

A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.

Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out.

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.

British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

A British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.

A British musical film directed by Herbert Smith.

A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.

Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' and pronounces him another Napoleon. Eddie becomes a changed man and issues orders to everyone. Meantime the boss believes Eddie to be the rightful owner of the company so let's him have his way. With the boss ill, Eddie invests heavily in the nutmeg market, almost bankrupting the company. By luck the research department discover that nutmeg is the secret ingredient for the new hair-restorer. The 1933 British Lion comedy feature film "Strike It Rich" starring George Gee and Gina Malo seems to be a 'lost' film on the 35mm cinema film format. However it was released (sadly savagely cut) on the UK Pathescope 9.5mm home movie film format in December 1938. One musical number was cut from the 9.5mm feature film release, but issued separately in a 9.5mm Pathe Vox Review. This print has this extra item edited back in.

This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.

A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.

Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.

While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.