Herman's Servant
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.
Peck
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Clock Winder
El matrimonio Baines es personal de servicio de una embajada. La pareja cuida de Felipe, que es el hijo del embajador. El señor Baines (Ralph Richardson) y el pequeño son dos compañeros inseparables pero la señora Baines (Sonia Dresdel) trata de una manera dura y autoritaria al pequeño. Baines se enamora de una secretaria de la embajada. Felipe intenta ocultar el secreto. Pero la mujer se entera de lo ocurrido por la indiscreción del pequeño. Poco después, el señor Baines es acusado de matar a su esposa, que cae por las escaleras. Estrenada el 31 de Agosto 1948 en el Festival de Venecia.
the barber
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
Grimshaw, the Curio Shop Proprietor
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Uncle Pumblechook
Adaptación de la novela "Grandes esperanzas" de Charles Dickens. El hijo de un humilde herrero es enviado a educarse a Londres gracias al dinero de un benefactor cuya identidad desconoce.
The Cabby
A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Savings.
Tom
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Station Master
British intelligence officers (Robert Newton, Guy Middleton) head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Fraser
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Woodcock
Tres "peregrinos" se encuentran durante la guerra cerca de Canterbury e intentan resolver el misterio del "fantasma del pegamento", que ataca a las chicas por la noche. Sus investigaciones los llevan a sospechar del magistrado de la localidad, un acérrimo defensor de los valores tradicionales... (FILMAFFINITY)
Landlord
Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Worker in Pagan's Office (uncredited)
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.
Waiter (uncredited)
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Talkative sailor at table
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Old General
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Mr. Kissack
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
The Burgomaster
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.
Dr. Truscott
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Drunk
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Cathcart
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.
Railway Porter
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Procurator Fiscal
Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Sebastian
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.
Astrologer
Con la ayuda del ladronzuelo mendigo Abu, el califa Ahmed se enfrentará al malvado Visir que le ha arrebatado el poder y dejado ciego, aspirando al amor de la hija del sultán de Basora. La famosa narración del clásico de la literatura árabe "Las mil y una noches" debe su logro principalmente a la labor del productor Alexander Korda.
Minesweeper Skipper
La historia de los altibajos de quienes protegían los convoyes vitales entre Estados Unidos e Inglaterra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Benoit
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Nazi Pastor
This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf in the 1930's has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers (preceded by a flock of sheep). The Stormtrooper go about teaching and enforcing 'The New Order' but Pastor Hall is a kind and gentle man who won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Axel Skold
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Britt
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.
Dr. Isidor Fosco
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
John Aloysius Evan
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.
Stephen Neale
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Engineer
Un comandante alemán de submarinos, el capitán Hardt, es enviado a la islas Órcadas con la misión de destruir la flota británica apostada en Scapa Flow. Allí encontrará la colaboración del matrimonio Blacklock.
Sir Humphrey's Groom Sam
Última película inglesa de Hitchcock, antes de su etapa americana. A finales del siglo XVIII, Mary (Maureen O'Hara), una joven huérfana irlandesa, va a Cornuailles para reunirse con su tía Patience, cuyo marido tiene una posada en la costa. Se trata de un lugar sórdido, cuyos huéspedes son bandidos que se dedican al saqueo de barcos y gozan de una impunidad total porque el cabecilla de la banda es un hombre respetable, un juez de paz (Charles Laughton) que les proporciona la información necesaria sobre el paso de las naves.
Mahdi Interpreter
Harry, un oficial británico, decide abandonar el ejército antes de que su regimiento se embarque con rumbo a Egipto para luchar contra los rebeldes. Su prometida y tres compañeros de armas le envían cuatro plumas blancas que simbolizan la cobardía. A partir de ese momento, Harry emprende peligrosas aventuras con el fin de poder devolver las plumas y recuperar el honor perdido.
Old Dan
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Stage Door Keeper
An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.
The Undertaker
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
Station Master
Fotheringill, un joven periodista inglés expulsado de Rusia por escribir un artículo antizarista, es persuadido por un agente del Servicio Secreto Británico para unirse a los miembros del movimiento revolucionario. Bajo el nombre de Peter Ouranov, Fotheringill participa en un complot para asesinar al Ministro del Interior, pero es descubierto y deportado a Siberia. Un año más tarde, Fotheringill interroga a la bella prisionera Alexandra, que resulta ser la hija del ministro zarista por cuyo asesinato sufrió destierro en Siberia. Ambos se enamora perdidamente y deciden escapar juntos.
Robert Pigeon
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Tiberius Cavallo
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.
New York theatre manager
A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Jeweller (uncredited)
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.
Orlando
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
The McLaggen
La familia de un hombre de negocios lo convence para que compre un antiguo castillo en Escocia, lo desmonte pieza por pieza, lo traslade en barco hasta América y allí lo reconstruya de nuevo. Pero con el castillo viajará también un centenario fantasma que ha aterrorizado durante siglos a sus propietarios.
Professor
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Spy
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Cascal
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.
Mr. Rich
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Harry
Una mujer es chantajeada por un criminal que descubrió que su hermano fue asesinado a tiros durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Periteau
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Quilp
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.
French Ambassador
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
Waiter
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Mr Edwards
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
Jevons
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Farmhand
'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
Merchant (Phase III)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Mr. Clappit
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
The King's Barber (uncredited)
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.
Photographer
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
Director
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Remenado
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
Scotty
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Scruffy
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.
