Gordon Begg

Единственная западная экранизация повести Александра Сергеевича Пушкина «Пиковая дама». За карточной игрой один из офицеров рассказывает друзьям о своей престарелой родственнице - графине Раневской (Эдит Эванс), которой некогда сам граф Сен-Жермен открыл тайну трёх верных карт, выигрывающих кряду. Герман (Антон Уолбрук), который никогда не садится за игровой стол из боязни проиграть, загорается идеей выведать у графини эту тайну. Для этого он знакомится с воспитанницей графини Лизой (Ивонн Митчелл). Девушка влюбляется в него и даёт ему ключ от дома. Ночью Герман проникает в дом графини, чтобы выпытать у старухи тайну трёх карт. Графиня отказывается отвечать и умирает. Следующей ночью Герману является призрак графини и называет «верные» карты - это тройка, семёрка и туз. Герман ставит на кон всё своё состояние, выигрывает первые две ставки на тройке и семёрке, но затем открывает вместо туза пиковую даму и сходит с ума...

В окрестностях Рочестера, старинного городка к юго-востоку от Лондона, жил семилетний мальчик, прозванный Пипом. Он остался без родителей, и воспитывала его взбалмошная старшая сестра. Её мужем был кузнец Джо Гарджери - светловолосый великан, покладистый и простоватый, только он, как мог, защищал Пипа. Однажды серая жизнь Пипа изменилась в корне, и началось это в тот день, когда мальчик столкнулся на кладбище с беглым каторжником. Тот под страхом смерти потребовал принести "жратвы и напильник", чтобы освободиться от кандалов. Скольких усилий стоило парнишке тайком собрать и передать узелок, но именно этот добрый поступок в последствии привел к целой череде удивительных историй и превращений, которые произошли в его жизни…

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey. The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited. Written by Les Adams

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities

The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.

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 ...

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.

The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.

Карточный шуллер находится под угрозой вступления в преступное предприятие, которое, по мнению Холмса, контролируется профессором Мориарти.

Назван по месту расположения радиоцентра, откуда транслировались передачи радиомеханического ТВ системы "Cine-Radio". Едва ли не самый первый в мире телевизионный фильм.

A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.

A forger's arrest shocks his pregnant wife, causing their daughter to suffer strange trances.

'A spurned Indian woman seeks revenge on the man who promised to marry her.' (British Film Institute)