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.

Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.

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.

그는 1609년 스페인으로부터 독립해 무역국가로 성장, 부유한 부르주아 문화를 꽃피운 네델란드에서 태어나, 루벤스(1577-1640)와 함께 바로크 시대를 대표하는 화가입니다. 레이덴의 방앗간집 여덟째 아들이었던 그는 레이덴 대학을 그만두고 그림의 길을 걷기 위해 암스테르담으로 유학, 28세에 명문가의 딸 사스키아 반 오윌렌부르흐 와 결혼, 최고의 초상화가로서 인정받고 30대 초반에 엄청난 부와 명성을 쌓았지만, 42년(36세)에 아내 사스키아가 사망하고. 이해 그의 대표적 걸작, 야경 을 제작했는데 사람들로부터 외면 당해 결국 빚더미 위에 올라앉게 됩니다. 하지만 아들 타이터스와 그의 정성껏 보살피는 하녀 헨드리케 슈토펠스 와 54년에 얻은 딸 코르넬리아 덕분에 후기 작품에 전념하였으나, 생활은 날로 어려워졌으며, 56년(50세) 파산선고를 받아 무일푼이 되었고, 62년(56세)에는 헨드리케 마저 세상을 떠나고, 68년 아들 타이터스도 27살에 죽자, 이듬해 10월 유대인 구역의 초라한 집에서 임종을 지키는 사람도 없이 63세에 숨을 거둡니다. 에칭에 대한 모든 기술을 완성하기도 한 그는 유화 약 600점, 에칭 300여점, 소묘 천 수백점 등을 남겼는데 루벤스가 화가로서 성공을 거두고 부유했던 반면, 그가 죽을 때 남은 것이라고는 옷 몇 벌과 그림 도구들 뿐이었다고 합니다.

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

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.

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 ...

해니(로버트 도나트 분)는 캐나다에서 업무차 런던에 온다. 어느날 쇼구경을 갔다가 아나벨라(루시 맨하임 분)라는 묘령의 여인을 만난다. 이 여인은 해니를 따라 아파트까지 와서는 자신이 스파이이며 지금 쫓기고 있다고 말한다. 또한 스파이들이 영국 공군의 기밀을 외국에 넘기려 하고 있으며 자신이 그것을 막아야 한다고 한다. 그녀는 '39 계단'이라는 알 수 없는 암호를 이야기한다. 그러나 그날밤 아나벨라는 살해된다. 해니는 아나벨라가 얘기한 사람을 만나기 위해 스코틀랜드로 떠난다. 기차 안에서 해니는 자신이 아나벨라의 살인범으로 몰리고 있음을 발견한다. 또한 아나벨라를 살해한 스파이들에게도 쫓겨 해니는 파멜라(마델레인느 캐롤린 분)에게 도움을 청하나 거절당한다. 겨우 기차에서 탈출한 해니는 스코틀랜드의 어느 농가에서 하룻밤을 지내고 그 농가 아낙의 도움으로 다시 경찰의 추적에서 벗어난다. 구사일생으로 교수(고드프리 터얼 분)의 집에 도착한 해니는 교수가 스파이 두목이라는 것을 안다. 교수의 집에서도 탈출한 해니는 경찰에 가서 사실을 말하지만 아무도 믿어주지 않는다. 다시 경찰서에서 도망치게 되고 결국엔 파멜라의 신고로 경찰로 위장한 스파이들에게 잡히고 만다. 파멜라가 위험하다고 느낀 스파이들은 파멜라와 해니를 수갑으로 묶어 두지만 해니는 또다시 탈출한다. 결국 파멜라도 해니의 말을 믿게 되고 스파이 두목인 교수가 39계단에게 경고를 하려하며 런던 극장에서 기밀을 넘겨받아 국외로 탈출하려한다는 사실을 알게 된다. 파멜라는 런던 경시청에 가서 사실을 알리나 이들 또한 믿지 않는다. 런던 극장으로 간 해니는 뛰어난 기억력을 자랑하는 '미스터 메모리'라는 사람이 바로 기밀을 두뇌에 저장한 사람이며 이 자를 데리고 가려 한다는 것을 알게 된다.

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.

주인공 스칼렛 핌퍼넬은 프랑스 혁명 당시 단두대로 끌려가는 귀족들을 구출해 영국으로 넘기는 정체불명의 인물이다. 로베스피에르는 스칼렛 핌퍼넬을 잡기 위해 그의 심복 쇼블랑을 영국에 파견한다. 쇼블랑은 지금은 멍청한 영국 귀족 퍼시 블레이크니의 부인이 된 배우 마르그리트를 협박해서 스칼렛 핌퍼넬의 정체를 알아내려 한다.

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.

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.

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

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.

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.