Mrs. Dilber (archive footage) (uncredited)
술집 여종업원인 아멘다 훤세커(Amanda Hunsaker: 잭키 스완슨 분)가 약을 복용하고 호텔 아래로 뛰어내려 죽는다. 사건을 맡게 된 로저 머터프(Roger Murtaugh: 대니 글로버 분) 형사는 50대에 들어서 은퇴도 멀지 않은 노형사인데, 아멘다가 자기의 옛 월남전 전우인 마이크 훤세커(Michael Hunsaker: 톰 엣킨스 분)의 딸이라는 것을 알고는 더욱 애석해 한다. 게다가 조수로 배정된 사람이 경찰서 내에서 말썽많기로 소문나 있고 아내를 잃은 뒤 더욱 거칠어져 물불을 안가리는 마틴 릭스(Martin Riggs: 멜 깁슨 분) 형사라는 걸 알고 심란해 한다. 로저는 아멘다의 아버지 훤세커를 만나 추궁한 끝에 훤세커가 월남전에 특수부대 요원들과 함께 마약 밀수를 했다는 사실을 알게 된다. 훤세커가 발을 빼려하자 딸을 죽인 것이다. 그러나 훤세커마저 조직에 의해 살해된다. 로저의 딸이 납치한 이들 조직은 군 출신의 장군(The General: 밋첼 라이언 분)이라는 자가 지휘하는 범죄 조직으로, 두 형사도 이들과 협상 장소로 갔다가 잡히고 만다. 하지만 불같은 릭스가 탈출하여 조직을 일망타진하고, 조직의 하수인인 죠슈아(Mr. Joshua: 게리 부시 분)와 일대일 결투를 벌여 그를 눕힌다
Elderly Lady
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.
Lady Clumsey
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
Mrs. Beckett
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Mrs. Staggers
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Mrs. Cooksley
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Rosie
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Mrs. Farrer
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
Mrs Frith
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
Mme. Abou
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German occupied France.
Elsie Knowles
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
Miss Gilly
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
Nannie Cartwright
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
Emmie
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
Annie Yeo
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Kate
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
Granny Quilliam
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Rachel Wardle
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Lillian Lord
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Mother in Family Group
사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.
Mrs. Dilber
자린고비 구두쇠인 주인공 스크루지(에베니저 스크루지 Ebenezer Scrooge)는 자린고비로 인정이라곤 손톱 끝만치도 없는 수전노이다. 그런 그가 크리스마스 전날 밤에 본래 공동으로 사업을 하던 동업자의 유령을 만나 자기의 과거·현재·미래의 모습을 보게 되자 자신의 죄를 뉘우치고 사람다운 마음을 찾게 된다는 이야기이다.
Scrooges Haushälterin
Emma Foreman (in segment The Verger)
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Mrs. McCabe
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Kate
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Isobel
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Mona's Mother
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
Mrs. Brown
A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Ethel Huggett
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Ethel Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Ethel Huggett
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Violet
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Mrs Sowerberry
교회에 속해 있는 빈민층을 도와주는 구빈원이란 곳에서 한 여자가 올리버 트위스트(Oliver Twist: 존 하워드 데이비스 분)라는 사내 아이를 낳고 숨을 거둔다. 부모나 다른 친척의 신분을 전혀 모르는 상태로 구빈원에서 생활 기술을 배우는 도제로서 지내던 올리버는 불충분한 식사를 한 뒤, 더 달라고 요구를 했다가 미움을 사게 돼 장의사인 소우어베리씨 집에 팔려 가게 된다. 하지만 그 곳에서도 역시 올리버는 심한 학대를 받는다. 특히 자신의 어머니를 경멸하는 것에 분개해 자신보다 훨씬 큰 노아와 주인 여자에게 마구 주먹을 휘둘렀다가 매를 맞은 뒤 런던으로 도망을 친다. 런던에서 올리버는 도저라는 페이긴 수하의 소매치기를 만나고, 페이긴의 허름한 소굴로 가서 소매치기들과 같이 지내게 된다. 그러던 어느날 로저와 찰리의 소매치기에 대해 올리버가 누명을 쓰고 경찰에게 잡힌다. 하지만 소매치기를 당할 뻔 했던 노신사, 브라운로우씨의 간곡한 부탁으로 올리버는 무사히 풀려나고 브라운로우씨의 집에 가서 극진한 간호와 사랑을 받는다. 하지만 심부름을 나왔다가 올리버는 다시 창녀인 낸시와 도둑인 빌 사이크스에게 잡혀 페이긴의 소굴로 돌아오게 된다. 올리버의 인생이 결국 도둑질이나 하다가 끝나게 될 거란 사실에 올리버를 잡아온 낸시는 올리버를 감싸고, 올리버가 페이긴 소굴에서 빠져 나갈 수 있도록 브라운로우씨에게 정보를 제공한다. 이런 사실에 분개해 빌은 낸시를 때려 죽이지만... 결국 군중들과 경찰, 그리고 브라운로우씨가 올리버를 무사히 구출한다. 그리고 또한 올리버가 브라운로우씨의 손자라는 사실이 밝혀지고, 올리버는 다시 브라운로우씨의 저택으로 가서 행복한 생활을 하게 된다.
Ethel Brawn
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Mrs. Ethel Huggett
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Mrs. Catt
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
Mabel Slater
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Waitress (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.
Florrie
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Egyptian Woman (uncredited)
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Pub Customer
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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.
Mrs. Bardell
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Mrs. Purkiss
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
Keith's Mother
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Amelia Peabody
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.
Mrs. Blake
어뢰에 맞은 ‘토린’이라는 구축함이 기적적으로 구조돼 영국 해안에서 수리에 들어간다. 하지만 배의 페인트가 마르고, 수리가 끝나기도 전에 토린은 크레테 섬에서 한 번 더 폭격을 맞는다. 배에 탄 군인들은 다들 파편을 붙들고 구조를 기다리며 가족들과 사랑하는 이들을 떠올린다.
Ethel
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.
Kathleen
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Auntie
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Raymond Huntley.
Mrs. Price
구세군에서 참령으로 일하는 바바라, 그리고 물질만능의 사고 방식에 사로 잡힌 그의 부친, 언더 세프트 사이에서, 진실로 세상을 움직이는 주체는 무엇인가를 탐구하는 영화.
바바라는 세상을 움직이는 가장 강력한 힘은 하나님의 사랑이라고 믿으며 구세군에서 참령의 직책으로 열심히 살아가지만 항상 부족한 지원금과 가난한 사람들에게서 모은 헌금으로 어렵게 구제 활동을 한다. 그녀의 아버지는 사람을 살상하는 무기 제조업자로서 엄청난 재산가이다. 흡족한 가정생활은 물론 전 직원들에게 물질적 풍요를 베풀며 존경과 사랑을 받으며 살아가고 있다. 그리고 그는 모든 힘의 근원은 금전이라고 생각한다.
Miss Bourne
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.
Mrs. James
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Mrs. Schifan
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Cook
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Bit Role
런던의 한 저택에서 앨리스 바를로우가 살해당하고 그녀의 유명한 루비가 사라진지도 20년. 비어있는 채 남겨져 있던 그 집을 폴, 벨라 부부가 매입하여 이사를 오게 된다. 그런데, 남편인 폴은 어떤 비밀을 간직하고 있고, 그 비밀을 지키기 위해 어떤 일이라도 저지르려고 하는데...
Mrs. Lightbody
A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Housekeeper
Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.
Penelope
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
Kitchen Maid
Carroll Levis brings newly discovered talent to the screen.
Mrs. Coates
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Mabel
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Parlour Maid
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.
May
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Belinda
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Emily Terence
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson's niece Olivia takes a liking to Danny, and comes to believe that he may have been involved in the disappearance of a local woman.
Annie
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Confused Voter
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
Mrs. Lossy
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Secretary
'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
Jane (the Maid)
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
Agnes Carter
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
Kaney
Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.
Martha
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.
Bit Role
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Ada Figgins
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.