Ian Hunter

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.

After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.

Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.

1905년, 인도왕 마하라자의 적대세력인 모슬렘 부족이 반군을 일으키자 왕은 왕조를 보존하기 위해 5살 왕자(고빈드 라자 로스)를 피소시킨다. 그를 보호하고 안전한 곳으로 보내는 임무를 맡게 된 영국군 스코트(케네스 모어). 그는 시시각각 다가오는 적에게 쫓기며 어린 왕자와 가정교사 왓트 부인(로렌 바콜), 신문 기자와 무기상, 영국 총독의 부인 등을 이끌고 낡아빠진 기관차 빅토리아 호를 몰며 모험에 나선다. 왕자를 안전하게 호송하라! 기관차 빅토리아 호에 탄 사람들 간 벌어지는 갈등과 내부에 숨은 적을 알아내는 과정이 손에 땀을 쥐게한다.

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.

An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.

A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.

This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't.

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt. Kathleen meets and falls in love with a mysterious stranger from America, Kenneth Wayne. When John hears of this he is furious, and we learn that it was Kenneth's father, Jeremy, who had killed Moonyean years before. John carries his grudge against Jeremy to the new generation, and threatens to ruin his niece's happiness, but he softens in the end.

Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

1920년대, 유명한 쇼 제작자 지그펠드의 무대에 서는 것은 브로드웨이 드림을 안고 뉴욕으로 온 수많은 젊은이들의 꿈이다. 그 무대에 서는 세 명의 코러스 걸들의 운명을 따라간다.

All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.

올리 올젠은 늘 고향으로 돌아가 농장을 하고 싶어하는 스웨덴 출신의 선원이다. 그러나 그는 항해가 끝나고 부두에 정착하게 될 때마다 동료 선원들과 함께 술에 만취하게 되고 그 결과 고향으로 돌아가려는 소원을 이루지 못하고 또 다시 배를 타게 되곤 한다. 올리가 타고 있는 배에는 아일랜드 출신으로 선원들의 리더인 드리스콜, 두고 온 아내와 자식에 대한 죄의식으로 괴로워하는 스미티, 소년처럼 감상적인 엑셀 등이 등장한다. 2년이란 오랜 선상 생활 속에서 우정을 키워온 거친 바다 사나이들은 부두에 정착한 뒤 배에서 내려 마음껏 술을 마시며 여흥을 즐긴다. 하지만 술로 인해 고향으로 돌아가려는 꿈을 이루지 못했던 올리는 애써 술을 피하는데 사악한 술집 주인과 작부의 음모로 결국 술을 주문하게 되고, 약을 탄 술을 마신 올리는 정신을 잃고 쓰러진다. 그리고 또 다시 고향으로 돌아가려는 꿈은 깨지고 만다.

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.

A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.

한 젊은 부부가 비행기 추락 사고로 정글 속에서 목숨을 잃고, 그 들 사이의 아기만이 다행히 살아남게 된다. 아기를 구조한 타잔과 제인은 자신들의 아이로 키운다. 그로부터 5년 후 백만장자의 상속자를 찾기위해 문명세상의 탐험대가 정글 속으로 들어오게 된다.

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.

모든게 갖추어진 부유한 환경의 세라 크루. 육군 대령인 백만장자 아버지 밑에서 상상력을 키우며 행복하게 사는데 어느 해 전쟁이나고 아버지가 참전하게 되자 세라는 인도를 떠나 사립기숙학교에 들어간다. 그런데 까다롭고 통제가 심한 기숙학교 사감 미스 민친은 평소에도 자유스런 분위기의 세라를 미워했지만, 세라의 아버지가 전사했다는 소식이 들려오자 본격적으로 그녀를 구박하기 시작한다. 빈털터리 신세의 세라는 결국 학생 신분에서 쫓겨나 하녀로 전락하는데...

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.

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…

This was one of the annual "blooper" reels screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. It was meant to poke fun at the flubs and bloopers that occurred ont the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.

The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Warner Brothers bloopers of 1937.

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.

In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly changes all of this.

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.

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 ...

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.

When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is a widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to the receipt of it. The two much marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.

'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.

A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.

Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.

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.

Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.

An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.