Hugh Wakefield

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.

Um engenheiro aeronáutico prevê que um novo modelo de avião falhará catastroficamente e de uma maneira inédita após um número específico de horas de voo. James Stewart interpreta o engenheiro aeronáutico Theodore Honey, o protótipo de um professor: distraído, excêntrico, esquecido, mas brilhante. Seus estudos mostram que a aeronave que está sendo fabricada por seu empregador tem uma falha de design sutil, mas mortal, que se manifesta apenas após a aeronave ter voado um determinado número de horas. A caminho de um local de acidente para provar sua teoria, Honey descobre que está a bordo de um avião que se aproxima rapidamente do prazo mortal previsto.

Two strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Adaptado de uma peça de Noel Coward, Charles e sua segunda esposa Ruth, são assombrados pelo fantasma de sua primeira esposa, Elvira. A Medium Madame Arcati tenta ajudar as coisas entrando em contato com o fantasma. Para obter ideias para um novo livro, o escritor Charles e sua ingênua segunda esposa Ruth, marcam com a mística Madame Arcati, uma sessão espírita. O resultado infeliz é que a primeira esposa de Charles, Elvira, retorna do além-túmulo para fazer de sua vida uma miséria. Ruth também fica cada vez mais irritado com sua rival sobrenatural, mas Madame Arcati é quem no final, com sua sagacidade, consegue resolver as coisas.

A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!

A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.

Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers

The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.

Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo

Casal de ingleses tem sua filha sequestrada após um agente secreto lhes contar, instantes antes de morrer, sobre um plano contra um importante diplomata inglês. Em Londres, os dois tentam resgatar sua filha, ao mesmo tempo em que devem dizer o que sabem as autoridades. Foi refilmado em 1956 pelo próprio Alfred Hitchcock.

Walls plays an Englishman who's assigned the task of transporting a Queen(Yvonne Arnaud) of a revolution-torn country to England incognito. Hiding her in his London apartment, then his country house gives rise to many misunderstandings among his employees, friends and his Fianceé.

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.

A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.

While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.

After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.

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.

A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals.

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.

A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.