John Turnbull

"Priest - a miracle please" - The young Italian priest Don Alberto is sent to New York where he is alone and suffers the typical indifference of the metropolis. He is involved with a group of young hippies, the "angels of death" who announced their collective suicide to protest against the society that is deprived of love and victim of the system that kills everything.

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

A cinema organist carries out a series of grisly murders.

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

Al regresar a Londres tras acabar el internado, Fanny presencia la muerte de su padre en una pelea, y descubre que su familia ha regentado un burdel durante años. No será el único descubrimiento importante en su vida, mientras se enamora del joven asesor y político Harry Sommerford, debiendo luchar por su amor contra la familia de éste.

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

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.

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.

The granddaughter of an old showman is kept away from him by his daughter, ashamed of their background. But the girl is phenomenally talented by hereditary, and wins a talent competition, leading to star in a west end show.

Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!

For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.

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.

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...

After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.

Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.

Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.

This early docudrama uses dramatic re-enactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930's.

A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.

Película biográfica sobre el célebre pintor holandés. En 1642, habiendo alcanzado la cima de la fama, muere repentinamente su adorada esposa. Desde entonces su pintura es más oscura, pesimista y dramática, lo que disgusta a sus mecenas. En 1656 Rembrandt está arruinado, pero se consuela con la compañía de la bella Hendrickje, con la que no llega a casarse. Sin embargo esta relación extraconyugal lo condena al ostracismo, aunque también le proporciona algunos momentos de felicidad.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

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

Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) es un rico y apuesto caballero que se aburre muchísimo. Un día, preocupado, decide visitar al doctor Sir James Aldroyd, que le aconseja un método para curar su aburrimiento: trabajar y vivir durante todo un año sin tocar ni un penique de su fortuna. Ernest, convencido de que lo conseguirá, hace con su médico una apuesta de 50.000 libras.

A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.

British crime film directed by Ralph Ince

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...

Richard Hannay está en un music-hall londinense. De repente, suena un disparo y comienza una pelea. En medio del tumulto, una chica asustada le pregunta si puede ir con él. Richard accede y la lleva a su apartamento...

In this mystery, ace detective Sexton Blake returns to solve the puzzling murder of a prominent violinist.

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.

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)

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

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.

A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.

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.

A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.

Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.

'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)

A man steals a priceless diamond, but returns it when an innocent man is arrested for the theft.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

A British crime film directed by William C. McGann

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.

A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.

A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.