Lloyd Pearson
Рождение : 1897-12-13, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Смерть : 1966-06-02
Howarth
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Mr Tarvin
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Comedy about a lazy mechanic who has to deliver a motor-cycle to its owner before five o'clock.
Peter Butterworth, an old-fashioned sweep, finds himself vying with Mr. Crossington, the "clean" sweep, in an attempt to clean the chimneys of Mr and Mrs Tompkins' house before the Mayor arrives for tea. The rivalry results in several downfalls of soot and both sweeps are chased from the house.
Tim Farrer
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
George Carson, the Local Mayor
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Sir Joseph Hingston
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Fawcett
Классическая британская комедия студии "Илинг". Обнаружив старый договор, юридически относящийся к давно несуществующему герцогству Бургундия, жители одного района Лондона объявляют независимость и формируют правительство. Теперь, чтобы попасть туда, нужно иметь "Пропуск в Пимлико".
Mr. Bishop (uncredited)
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Dormer
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Drunken Client
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.
Solicitor
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Derek Cunlyffe
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Sam Thyrtle
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.
Publican (uncredited)
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
Col. Chudleigh
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Josef Schweik
Nazis are nothing to the wily good soldier Schweik (Lloyd Pearson).
Joe Helliwell
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
Train Passenger
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
Hotel Manager
События фильма разворачиваются в самом начале войны, когда угроза со стороны фашистской Германии перестает быть призрачной. Британским контрразведчикам удается получить ценные сведения о местоположении группы немецких шпионов. Где-то в норвежском Бергене расположилась опытная команда фашистов под прикрытием, изображающая джазовый оркестр. В срочном порядке готовится спецоперация по обезвреживанию противника. В какой-то момент план английской контрразведки отклоняется от заданной схемы, в результате чего в Норвегию отбывает не опытный агент, а чудаковатый музыкант небольшого джаз-бэнда Джордж Хепплуайт. В отсутствии других вариантов приходится уговорить паренька послужить на благо родине.
Jake
Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant worker, who lets slip vital information about some overnight research on a captured enemy aircraft. This inevitably leads to this most important of secrets falling into the lap of the enemy.
Alderman Joseph Halliwell
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
Alf - Publican
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
Seiler
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Oldfield
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.