Melville Cooper

Melville Cooper

출생 : 1896-10-15, Birmingham, England, UK

사망 : 1973-03-31

약력

George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in 1973 and was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melville Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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참여 작품

From the Earth to the Moon
Bancroft
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show its potential he plans to send a projectile to the moon. Joining him for the trip are his assistant Ben Sharpe, Barbicane's arch-rival Stuyvesant Nicholl, and Nicholl's daughter Virginia. Nicholl believes that Power X goes against the will of God and sabotages the projectile so that they cannot return to earth, setting up a suspenseful finale as they battle to repair the projectile.
The Story of Mankind
Major Domo
The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.
Bundle of Joy
Adams, the Butler
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
80일간의 세계일주
Mr. Talley
영국 빅토리아 여왕 시기, 모험을 즐기며 꼼꼼하고 감정을 잘 드러내지 않는 성격의 거부 필리스 포그(데이빗 니븐)는 자기가 속한 클럽의 친구들과 내기를 한다. 80일 동안에 지구를 한 바퀴 돌 수 있느냐는 논쟁을 벌인 끝에 그의 전 재산 2만 파운드를 건 것이다. 새로 일을 시작한 그의 충실한 집사 빠스빠르뚜(캔틴플라스)와 함께 그는 곧바로 세계일주 여행을 떠난다. 그러나 그들은 여행 시작부터 마르세이유행 열차를 놓치고, 여행사 직원으로부터 기구를 구입하여 여행을 계속하나 목적지가 아닌 스페인에 도착하게 되는 등 어려움을 겪게 된다. 빠스빠르뚜의 코믹한 투우 덕에 배를 얻어 타고 스페인에서 벗어난 그들은 계획된 여행경로를 따라 여행을 계속한다. 마지막까지 자신을 방해하며 뒤쫓는 탐정을 따돌리며 세계일주에 성공하지만, 결국 그는 기한보다 하루가 지나서 영국에 도착한다. 그러나 지구 반대편의 시차로 인한 착오였음이 밝혀지고 그는 내기에서 이긴다.
Diane
1st Court Physician
Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.
The King's Thief
Henry Wynch
An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
문플릿
Felix Ratsey
황량한 땅으로 둘러싸인 작은 항구 문플릿에서 존은 돌아가신 어머니의 어린 시절 고아원 친구 폭스를 만난다. 밀수입업자 폭스가 떠나는 도피길에 존이 함께 하게 되면서 범상치 않은 모험이 시작되는데.... 조지 스티븐슨의 소설을 원작으로 한 작품. 18세기 영국을 무대로, 소년에서 성인으로 성숙해 가는 과정을 영화사상 가장 아름답게 다룬 작품 중 한 편이다.
The General's Boots
Mr. Burnham
A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.
평범한 여인의 행복
Guest Panelist
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
Let's Dance
Charles Wagstaffe
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
The Petty Girl
Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)
An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his arwork. She declines his offer, but he's determined not to take no for an answer.
The Underworld Story
Major Redford
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
신부의 아버지
Mr. Tringle
외동딸 케이를 끔찍이 사랑하는 전형적인 아버지 스탠리는 어느 날 케이가 결혼을 하겠다고 선언하자 딸을 둔 아버지로서 걱정과 의심으로 불안해한다. 하지만 케이의 남자친구 버클리와 그의 부유한 부모를 만나 안심을 하게 된다. 한편 스탠리는 딸을 보내기 싫은 마음에, 결혼식 진행을 앞두고 사사건건 딸과 부딪치며 문제를 만든다. 스탠리는 결국 케이를 사랑하는 마음으로 보내고, 케이는 아버지의 따뜻한 사랑을 다시 한번 확인하게 된다
And Baby Makes Three
Gibson
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
The Red Danube
Private David Moonlight
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
Love Happy
Lefty Throckmorton
The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds.
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. John H. Watson
Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..
Enchantment
Jeweler
Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. However, the appearance of his niece and her subsequent romance with Lark's nephew causes him to reevaluate his life and offer some advice so the young couple doesn't make the same mistake he did, all those years ago.
13 Rue Madeleine
Pappy Simpson
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
The Imperfect Lady
Lord Montglyn
A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.
Heartbeat
Roland Latour
A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
My Kingdom for a Cook
Angus Sheffield
While visiting Massachusetts, a famous English author (Charles Coburn) faces the wrath of a socialite (Isobel Elsom) after stealing her chef.
Holy Matrimony
Dr. Caswell
An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.
Immortal Sergeant
Pilcher
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
Hit Parade of 1943
Bradley Cole
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
마음의 행로
George
전투 도중 부상을 입고 기억 상실증에 언어장애까지 겹친 찰스(Charles Rainer/John 'Smithy' Smith: 로날드 콜맨 분)는 종전 되던 날 안개를 틈타 수용소를 몰래 빠져 나온다. 그 뒤 챨스는 아름다운 여인 폴라(Paula: 그리어 가슨 분)를 만나 건강도 되찾고 결혼해 아들도 낳는 한편 작가로 입문하는데 리버풀에 연재기사를 계약하러 혼자 갔다 교통사고를 당해 폴라와 같이 산 세월만 기억을 못하게 된다. 명문의 아들인 챨스는 그 뒤 고향으로 돌아가 사업가로 대성하나 기억하지 못하는 세월 때문에 뭔가 늘 허전해 하며 열쇠를 만지작 거리며 산다. 한편 폴라는 잡지에 난 챨스의 사진을 보고 챨스의 개인 비서로 일하게 되고 사실은 밝히지 않고 챨스를 훌륭히 보필하면서 기억이 되살아 나기만 기다리며 안타까와 한다. 챨스가 국회의원이 되자 둘은 결혼해 형식적인 부부가 되어 폴라는 챨스의 의정활동을 돕다가 끝내는 기억이 되살아나 재회하게 된다.
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Barty
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
The Affairs of Martha
Dr. Clarence Sommerfield
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
This Above All
Wilbur
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
You Belong to Me
Moody
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.
뉴올리언스의 불빛
Brother-in-Law
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
Scotland Yard
Dr. Crownfield
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
레이디 이브
Gerald
프레스턴 스터지스가 시나리오를 쓰고 직접 감독한 고전적인 로맨틱 코미디로 헨리 폰다와 바바라 스탠윅이 주연을 맡았다. 재기 넘치고 생기발랄한 남녀간의 밀고 당기는 싸움을 그린 이 영화에서 헨리 폰다는 대부호의 상속자, 찰스 파이크를 연기했다. 뱀에 관한 전문가인 찰스는 아마존에서 일년간의 연구를 마치고 뉴욕으로 돌아오는 여객선에 오른다. 승선하자마자 찰스는 능력 있는 결혼상대자를 찾는 배 안의 미혼여성들의 관심의 초점이 되는데, 찰스를 주의 깊게 보는 사람들 중에 전문도박사들인 해리 해링턴 대령(찰스 코번)과 그의 파트너 제랄드, 그리고 대령의 딸 진(바바라 스탠윅)이 있었다. 만찬장에서 모든 여성들이 찰스에게 눈독 들이는 걸 지켜보던 진은 찰스의 발을 걸어 그의 관심을 끄는데 성공한다. 대령과 제랄드는 찰스를 속이기 쉬운 상대로 보고 게임을 하려고 하지만 진 역시 찰스에게 끌리는 자신을 발견하고는 놀란다. 그러던 중, 어린 시절부터 찰스를 돌봐온 경호원 먹시는 대령과 진이 전문도박사임을 증명하는 사진을 찰스에게 보여준다. 충격을 받은 찰스는 진에게 사기꾼임을 알고 거짓으로 그녀에게 끌리는 척했다고 말한다. 화가 난 진은 복수를 다짐하고 영국의 귀족 여인, 레이디 이브로 행세하며 다시 찰스 앞에 나타난다. 찰스는 진과 똑같이 생긴 레이디 이브를 보며 혼란스러우면서도 또다시 이브에게 빠져드는데…
Murder Over New York
Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
오만과 편견
Mr. Collins
적령기를 맞고 있다. 온순하고 마음이 착하며 만사에 내성적인 맏딸 제인에 비해, 둘째 딸 엘리자베스는 인습에 사로잡히지 않고 재치가 넘치는 발랄한 아가씨였다. 제인은 근처에 이사온 늠름한 청년 빙리를 사랑하게 되지만, 신중하게 자기 애정을 숨기고 있다. 빙리의 친구 다시는 겉치레를 우습게 알기 때문에, 성격 연구가임을 내세우는 엘리자베스에 대해서조차 신분을 내세우는 `오만`한 남자라는 인상을 주지만, 결국 자유롭고 활달한 엘리자베스를 사랑하게 된다. 그러나, 다시는 베네트 부인과 아래로 세 명의 딸들이 어리석게 행동하기 때문에 그 이상 더 엘리자베스와 관계가 깊어지는 것을 꺼려하였다. 빙리도 역시 제인을 사랑하고는 있었으나, 그녀의 사랑을 받을 수 있을 것인지 자신감을 상실하게 된다. 이리하여 결국 이들 두 청년은 그 땅에서 떠나간다. 다시는 그 뒤 신분의 격차가 있고, 저속한 중매인에 대한 혐오감도 있지만, 그 모든 장애를 뛰어넘어 엘리자베스에게 구혼한다. 그러나 그녀는 다시가 `오만`하다는 `편견`을 가지고 있었기 때문에 그 구애를 거부 한다. 그러나 경박하고 낯이 두터운 콜린스와 싹싹하기는 하지만 성실하지 못 한 위컴과의 교제를 통하여 첫인상이 중요하지 않다는 사실을 깨닫게 된다. 그 외에도 여러 가지 사건과 만남을 통하여 다시가 실은 너그럽고 생각이 깊은 인물이라는 사실을 알게 되어, 엘리자베스는 자기 `편견 `을 시정한다. 한편 다시는 빙리에 대한 제인의 사랑이 진실되다는 사실을 알고, 두 사람의 결혼을 주선한다. 그리고 다아시와 엘리자베스도 이해와 애정과 존경으로 맺어진다.
Escape to Glory
Ship's Mate Penney
The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by placing the characters on a British merchant ship on the very day that World War II is declared. The ship is attacked by a Nazi U-Boat, resulting in a variety of reactions from the diverse passengers--one of whom (Erwin Kalser) is a German doctor. Constance Bennett is glamorous, Pat O'Brien is boozy, John Halliday is pensive, and everybody else (except for the German medico) is plain fearful.
Too Many Husbands
Peter
Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.
레베카
Coroner
평범하고 수줍음 잘 타는 그녀는 몬테 카를로에서 몇년 전 아내 레베카와 사별한 부유한 신사 맥심을 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 그녀는 아직도 전처를 잃은 슬픔에 다소 불안정한 심리 상태의 맥심과 결혼 후 그의 대저택 '맨덜리'에 입성한다. 아름답지만 음산하고 기묘한 분위기를 풍기는 대저택 ‘맨덜리’는 죽은 레베카가 마치 살아 숨쉬고 있는 것처럼 레베카에게 깊게 물들어 있다. 집사 댄버스 부인 마저 시종일관 무표정함을 유지하며 경계심을 드러내 그녀를 노이로제 상태로 몰아간다. 하지만 남편 맥심은 자신의 심적 고통 때문에 미처 그녀에게 신경을 쓰지 못하고 그들 부부의 결혼 생활은 위기를 맞이하게 된다. 어느 비 바람 몰아치던 저녁, ‘맨덜리’ 저택의 비밀이 드러날 사건이 일어나는데…
Two Bright Boys
Hilary Harrington
A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.
The Sun Never Sets
Cosey
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Blind Alley
George Curtis
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
I'm from Missouri
Hearne
Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is accompanied by his ritzy wife Julie who has high society aspirations and hopes to have her younger sister Lola Pike marry a British diplomat. Complicating matters is a business rival, Porgie Rowe, who is trying to sell tractors to the government and keeps knocking Sweeney's prize Missouri mules.
더 돈 패트롤
Sgt. Watkins
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
Dramatic School
Boulin
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way through life, and her fellow students at school begin to suspect her stories are just that - fabrications. After Louise begins to weave an actual meeting with a debonair playboy into a fantasy of club dates and romance, her classmate Nana discovers the lie when she too meets the playboy. Nana sets a trap for Louise, and the result is an end to one fantasy and the realization of another.
Comet Over Broadway
Emerson
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Hard to Get
John Case
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.
Garden of the Moon
Maurice
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Four's a Crowd
Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler
A publicist falls for his most difficult client's daughter.
Gold Diggers in Paris
Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec
When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring bankruptcy. The owners, Terry Moore and Duke Dennis, jump at the chance to go, despite being aware of the mistake. They hire ballet teacher, Luis Leoni, and his only pupil, Kay Morrow, to join the group, hoping to teach their two dozen show girls ballet en route to Paris by ship. Also going along and rooming with Kay is Mona, Terry's ex-wife, who wants to keep an eye on her alimony checks. Naturally, Kay and Terry fall in love.
로빈 훗의 모험
High Sheriff of Nottingham
영국의 국왕 리처드는 십자군 순례 때문에 영국을 떠났는데 오스트리아에서 리오 폴드한테 잡혔다. 영국에서는 동생인 존이 지배를 하고 있어 노르망디 족과 색슨족간에 싸움이 일어났다. 노르망디 족은 리처드의 몸값이라고 하며 세금을 걷는다는 명목으로 모든 것을 약탈한다. 복종하지 않는 사람들은 고문 당하고 매맞고 때로는 죽기도 한다. 이런 불의를 못 참기에 로빈 훗은 셔우드 숲에 무법자들을 모아 돈 많은 사람들로부터 돈을 빼앗아 가난한 사람들에게 나누어준다. 존은 로빈을 죽일 궁리를 하고 있다. 그러다 리처드가 돌아온다. 리처드가 돌아왔다는 사실을 안 존은 비밀리에 리처드를 살해하라고 하는데…
Women Are Like That
Mainwaring
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
Tovarich
Charles Dupont
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatiana, the Grand Duchess Petrovna, and her husband, Mikail, Prince Ouratieff. Recent exiles from the Russian Revolution, Tatiana and Mikail befriend the Dupont family, keeping their true identities a secret -- until one night when Soviet official Gorotchenko arrives for dinner.
The Great Garrick
M. W. Picard
A British actor insults a French acting group only to fall victim to a prank that might destroy his career.
Thin Ice
Krantz
A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.
체이니 부인의 최후
William
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
The Gorgeous Hussy
Cuthbert
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
The Bishop Misbehaves
Collins
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.
스칼렛 핌퍼넬
Romney
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 Private Life of Don Juan
Leporello
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
Leave It to Me
Honorable Freddie
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
Two White Arms
Mack
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
The Calendar
Mr. Wayne
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Black Coffee
Insp. Japp
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
All Riot on the Western Front
A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,