Mr Painter
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
Col. Matthews
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
General The Viscount Gort V.C.
Две истории в одной: беззаботный британский капрал, находящийся во Франции, узнаёт, что он оказался ответственным за жизни своих людей после гибели их офицера. И он должен найти способ вернуть их в Англию. Тем временем британские гражданские лица оказываются втянутыми в войну при помощи операции «Динамо», целью которой было вернуть французские и британские войска на побережье Дюнкерка. Есть и те, кто готов прийти на помощь, и те, кто действует не столь охотно.
Inspector Frankham
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Stewart
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Bill
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Headmaster
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Philip Stanton
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Vicar
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Cartwright
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Squadron Leader Barry Clinton
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Dialogue
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.
Roger Keen
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.
Austin Penrose
The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner in their quiet English manor
Fred Jesson
Лора Джессон и доктор Алек Харви познакомились в кафе на вокзале и стали встречаться здесь каждую неделю, прекрасно зная, что у их любви нет будущего…
Harry Small
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Jimmy Taylor
Джордж, продавец мороженого, попадает в переделку. Из-за нелепой случайности его обвиняют в краже. Пытаясь скрыться от полиции, он проникает на поезд, где засыпает рядом с конем по кличке Людоед, который уже покалечил нескольких жокеев. Но Джордж не знает о скверном нраве Людоеда и поэтому не боится его, из-за чего рядом с ним конь ведет себя смирно. Когда по прибытии поезда дочь владельца Людоеда и её жених обнаруживают это обстоятельство, они говорят Джорджу, что коня зовут Ягненок, нанимают ухаживать за ним и изо всех сил стараются скрыть от Джорджа правду, надеясь, что он выиграет для них престижные скачки...
The Rev. John Harris
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Teacher (uncredited)
Экранизация произведения Джеймса Хилтона. Действие происходит в одном из городков викторианской Англии, куда приезжает новый учитель - мистер Чипс. На протяжении фильма старый учитель вспоминает свою долгую жизнь и многолетнюю преподавательскую карьеру в школе-интернате для мальчиков. Он выучил несколько поколений ребятишек, помнил всех своих учеников, ставших для него настоящей семьей, а также женитьбу, которая перевернула всю его жизнь… Он немного неуклюж, ученики частенько над ним смеются, но потом проникаются его искренностью и любовью к своему делу. Лейтмотивом картины является разрушительное воздействие войн на британское общество: сюжет охватывает начало франко-прусской войны и заканчивается приходом Гитлера к власти...
Tommy
Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Jerry Sears
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
James
Приглашенный американец участвует в смелом продвижения бизнеса, подобного которому британцы не видели.
Guy Henry
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime.
George Warner
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?
Montague
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
Harriman
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
Slaughter
Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' and pronounces him another Napoleon. Eddie becomes a changed man and issues orders to everyone. Meantime the boss believes Eddie to be the rightful owner of the company so let's him have his way. With the boss ill, Eddie invests heavily in the nutmeg market, almost bankrupting the company. By luck the research department discover that nutmeg is the secret ingredient for the new hair-restorer. The 1933 British Lion comedy feature film "Strike It Rich" starring George Gee and Gina Malo seems to be a 'lost' film on the 35mm cinema film format. However it was released (sadly savagely cut) on the UK Pathescope 9.5mm home movie film format in December 1938. One musical number was cut from the 9.5mm feature film release, but issued separately in a 9.5mm Pathe Vox Review. This print has this extra item edited back in.
Captain Fordyce
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
Jim Silverton
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.
Sergeant Ferraby
A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Jim Wrench
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
Charles
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Anthony Fenwick
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
Richard Winthrop
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Miles Winter
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Stanley
A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.
John Hector McFarlane
An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of him, though he finds himself his sole beneficiary. But then Holmes finds a new thumb print, and the game is afoot.
Hareton Earnshaw
The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
Harris Giles
A fop wins a socialist's daughter by earning his living as a farm-hand.