Gypsy (uncredited)
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Man on Dock (uncredited)
해리 파비안은 런던의 거리를 헤매는 야심 많은 사기꾼으로 돈을 벌기 위해서라면 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는다. 어느 날 그는 은퇴한 세계적인 레슬링 선수 그레고리우스를 만나고 생각지도 않은 음모에 휘말리게 되는데…. 감독은 억압된 사회 속에서 생존을 위해 투쟁하는 사람들에게 초점을 맞춰 인간 본성을 탁월하게 묘사했다.
Man in Election Crowd (uncredited)
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
Man Outside Taxi Garage (uncredited)
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Watchman
A musical set during the French Revolution.
Irish Smuggler (uncredited)
Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
Park Keeper
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Mick
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
Workman (uncredited)
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Bill
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Delivery Man
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
SS Guard (uncredited)
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Bill
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.
Camp Guard
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Court Police Officer
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Customer In Public Bar (uncredited)
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Sailor
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Miner
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Street Orator
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
First Man At Front Door
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
Brewery Worker
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
(uncredited)
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
Man Outside Stadium (uncredited)
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
The Face at the Window
In 1880, the criminal called The Face is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chavalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chavalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.
Race Card Seller / Slush Passer
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Released Convict (Uncredited)
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Miner (uncredited)
젊고 열정적인 스코틀랜드인 앤드류는 이제 막 의사가 되어 웨일스의 광산 마을에서 진료를 시작한다. 앤드류는 광부들이 계속해서 기침을 하는 증상에 의문을 갖고, 헌신적으로 폐결핵에 대해 연구한다. 그러나 그의 숭고한 의학적 연구 의지는 대도시 런던의 물질주의에 점차 흔들린다. A. J. 크로닌의 동명소설을 각색했다. 신참 의사 앤드류를 통해 당대 영국의 의료 시스템이 가진 결함과 변화를 원하지 않는 기득권층의 모습을 들여다보고, 나아가 쇄신과 혁신에의 의지를 호소한다.
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
A Furniture Thief
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Ted
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
Crew Member
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Henri
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Sailor in Audience
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Flies
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Concert Patron
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
Man at the Gate
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
Gregg
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.
No. 16
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
Toothpick Jeff
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.
Bert
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
Bosun Knapps
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
Winkleburg
The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
Publican
발레타인 윌모트(제임스 토머스)는 번화한 나이트클럽이자 레스토랑인 피카딜리 서커스의 소유자이다. 피카딜리의 스타는 윌모트가 키운 아름다운 댄서 메이블(질다 그레이)과 빅터라는 댄서 커플이다. 잘 나가던 빅터가 윌모트와의 불화로 클럽을 떠나자 메이블의 인기가 떨어지면서 클럽은 경영난을 겪게 된다. 손님의 불만으로 해고한 중국인 접시닦이 쇼쇼(아나 메이 웡)의 춤 솜씨를 보게 된 발레타인은 그녀를 댄서로 발탁하고 그녀는 큰 성공을 거두게 된다. 독일 출신 감독인 두폰트가 영국으로 건너가 연출한 이 영화는 독일 표현주의와 영국적 소재가 적절히 섞인 느와르 풍의 무성영화이다. 삼각관계 질투, 그로 인한 살인, 거짓증언, 자살 등 멜로드라마의 전형을 따르고 있다. 중국계 미국배우인 아나 메이 웡은 팜므파탈 쇼쇼로 분해 개봉 당시 큰 반향을 불러 일으켰다. 아나 메이 웡의 마지막 무성영화로 2004년 BFI에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다.
(2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대)
Man (uncredited)
사회적 신분은 다르지만 절친한 사이로 지냈던 두 친구와 한 여성 사이에 벌어지는 일을 다룬 작품
Bosco
The guardian of an heiress tries to destroy the reputation of her lover by planting drugs on him.
The Showman
잭은 동네 장터에서 손님을 상대로 권투 시합을 벌여 돈을 따서 먹고 사는 권투 선수다. 잭의 여자 친구는 권투장 입구에서 표를 팔고 있는 아가씨다. 두사람은 서로 결혼을 약속한 사이지만 어느날, 그녀 앞에 낯선 남자가 나타난다. 그 남자는 한 눈에 그녀에게 반하고 그녀 역시 그 낯선 남자에게 호감을 느낀다. 잭과 그 낯선 남자는 결국 장터 권투장에서 시합을 벌이는데 뜻밖에도 시합의 결과는 낯선 남자의 승리였다. 보통 1라운드에서 상대방을 쓰러눕힌다하여 '1라운드 잭'이란 별명을 갖고 있던 잭과 그의 일행은 몹시 당황하고. 그녀는 그 낯선 남자에게서 받은 명함을 통해 그가 호주 헤비급 챔피언, 밥 코르비라는 사실을 알게된다. 밥 코르비의 매니저는 잭의 실력에 감탄하여 만일 잭이 연습 시함에서 승리할 경우, 잭을 밥의 연습 파트너로 삼겠다고 말한다. 결국 잭은 연습 시합에서 승리를 거둬 밥의 연습 파트너가 되고 그녀와도 결혼을 하게 된다. 하지만 잭은 자신의 부인과 밥 사이가 심상치 않다는 것과 그녀가 늘 차고 있던 팔찌 역시 밥이 준 것이라는 사실을 알게 된다. 그녀는 잭에게 자신은 밥을 따라가겠다는 말을 남기고 떠나버린다. 조금씩 실력을 쌓아나가 결국 챔피언 자리를 놓고 밥과 한 판 승부를 벌이게 된 잭. 그러나 사랑하는 아내는 이미 밥에게로 떠난 상태였다. 드디어 시합 날, 그녀는 밥의 상대가 잭이라는 걸 모르는 채, 시합장을 찾는다. 잭은 그녀가 와 있다는 걸 모르고 밥과 시합을 벌이지만 승세는 밥에게 있는 듯 하다. 잭은 우연히 관중석에 앉아 있는 그녀를 발견하고 넋을 잃고 만다. 결국 다운을 당하고 마는 잭, 그러나 그녀는 잭에게 달려가 자신은 잭의 편임을 알린다. 그녀의 말에 힘을 얻어 잭은 다음 라운드에서 결국 밥을 K. O시키고 시합을 승리로 장식한다. 그녀는 자신이 진정으로 사랑하고 있던 사람은 잭이었음을 깨닫고 링 사이드에 밥이 줬던 '팔찌(링)'를 버려둔 채 잭과 함께 떠난다.