A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
Hoskins
영국 북부의 공업지대. 직물업계의 대부인 벌리는 최근 업계에 들이닥친 심각한 위기를 감지한다. 그는 예비 사위의 방적공장을 둘러보다가 한 연구실에서 호기심을 끄는 이상한 장치를 발견하지만 누구도 그것이 무엇인지 설명하지 못한다. 조사 결과 그 장치에는 4천 파운드가 소요되었고 시드니 스트래튼이라는 연구원이 허락도 없이 주문을 했다는 사실이 밝혀진다. (1947)에 이은 알렉산더 맥켄드릭의 두 번째 영화로 일링 코미디 중 가장 냉소적인 영화로 꼽힌다. 진보가 보수에 발목을 잡히고, 과거로부터 헤어나지 못하고 있던 당시 영국의 현실을 신랄하게 비꼬고 있다. (Naver 영화)
Bembridge
An Earl returns from a tropical island and discovers the daughter of the tribal King has stowed away in his luggage.
Mr. Farquharson
1943년 스코틀랜드 아우터 헤브리디스 제도의 '토디 섬(Island of Todday)' 사람들은 전쟁 때문에 위스키 공급을 제대로 받지 못해 모두 절망에 빠져 있었다. 이 와중에 영국군 상사 '오드'는 섬에 돌아와 이 지역에서 우체국을 운영하는 조셉 마크룬의 딸 페기에게 청혼을 하고 온순한 학교선생님 조지 캠벨을 마크론의 둘째 딸과 결혼을 약속하지만 엄하기로 소문난 그의 어머니는 결코 이 결혼을 허락하지 않을 기세다. 안개가 자욱한 어느 날 밤 화물선 '캐비넷 미니스터'호가 좌초되어 바다에 떠 있자 마을 사람 비퍼와 샘이 배를 저어 화물선에 다가가고 화물선을 탈출하여 나오는 선원들로부터 이 배에 5만 상자의 위스키가 실려 있다는 소식을 듣는다. 둘이 황급히 달려가 이 소식을 마을 사람들에게 전하자 모두는 기쁨을 감추지 못한다. 독선적이고 위압적인 이 섬의 지역방위군 지휘관 '왜거트' 대위는 이 사실을 알고 오드 상사에게 화물선을 철저히 감시하라고 지시하지만 우체국장 마크룬은 이 섬의 오랜 전통에 의해 위스키가 없이는 결혼식 파티를 열 수 없다는 사실을 오드 상사에게 귀뜸해 준다. 위스키가 없으면 결혼도 할 수 없다는 생각을 품게 된 오드 상사의 묵인 하에 마을 사람들은 보트를 타고 난파선에 다가가 엄청나게 많은 양의 위스키를 실어내 오고 덕분에 위스키를 잔뜩 마신 학교선생님 캠벨은 술의 힘을 빌어 고집 세고 터프한 어머니에게 용감히 맞서 카트리나와 결혼을 선언한다. 드디어 캠벨과 오드 상사의 결혼식 파티가 벌어지고 마을 사람들은 넘쳐나는 위스키와 함께 흥겨운 파티를 마음껏 즐긴다. 한편 섬사람들이 위스키를 몰래 빼냈다는 사실을 알아차린 왜거트 대위는 본토의 관세청 관리와 함께 위스키를 찾아 나서고, 마을 사람들은 결혼식 파티를 일단 중지하고 위스키를 감추기 위해 그들과 한판승을 벌이는데... (EBS)
Harry Trevor
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Dr. Armstrong
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Dunham
McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Eric Reynolds
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
Bemis
Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
Mr. Arnold Stewart
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
Ralph Gurney
A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Thornton
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless.
Austin Forrester
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
'Mal' Mallison
Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
Eddie Pelham
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Captain Mazarin
Comedy action starring Irish boxing champion Jack Doyle
Reggie Van Dorset
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
John Doughty
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
Cross
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
Duvine
A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
Lucien Courtier
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
Stanley Crofts
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
Frank Bramber
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
