Maclean Rogers
Nascimento : 1899-07-13, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
Morte : 1962-01-04
Director
The efforts of a female Customs Officer to challenge smugglers who hide illicit liquor in a steam roller.
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A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.
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A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
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George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.
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1950s, possibly lost film starring Colin Spaull as the Enid Blyton character.
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the scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated Chief Steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Borough and her secretary Pat. Soon Mrs. Boroughs’ Jewels are stolen…
Original Story
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Screenplay
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Director
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Writer
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
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An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Director
Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
Producer
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.
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An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
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Two friends on a motoring holiday pursue a pair girls.
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Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.
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Wartime musical comedy.
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Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
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A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
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The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.
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A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Employess of a dress shop battle with a crooked gambler to get their jobs back.
Producer
Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
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Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure.
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A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
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A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
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A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
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Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
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Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Screenplay
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...
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Ex-army private Randle stands to receive a substantial inheritance from his uncle if he can prove he is of sound mind. However, his devious cousin tries to grab the money by having Randle committed to a psychiatric home.
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John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
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This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.
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Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
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Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
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Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
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Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
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Betty driver vehicle
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A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers
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A comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers
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In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to be spent in a mental hospital. He thinks he truly is in for life, but then his assistant busts him out so he can save the eyesight of the prosecuting attorney (the assistant's father) who put him there. The operation is successful, but does not go without a hitch as the doctor again goes bananas for a time. Later his loyal assistant continues to try to get the doctor released.
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Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
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An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
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The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
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Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract.
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Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
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The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers.
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Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty fiancee, Muriel, who never liked the setup anyway, disgustedly heads for greener pastures. Harry promptly marries Peggy, and, after an official investigation of the Oaks' results, Brownie gets revenge on the fickle Muriel.
Director
A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
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A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
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A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
Writer
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
Director
A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.
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A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
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The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
Writer
A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
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A reporter faces a race against time to clear an actress accused of murder.
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'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Producer
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Director
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Adaptation
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Director
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Editor
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Writer
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
Editor
During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
Editor
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Editor
A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
Editor
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Screenplay
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
Editor
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
