Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Writer
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
Story
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Concert Party Pianist (uncredited)
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Scenario Writer
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Story
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
Writer
While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
Story
A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
Maya
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Story
When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Colonel's Wife
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Theatre Play
In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Writer
A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
