Frank Atkinson

После похорон Ричарда Эбернети, оставшиеся члены семьи собираются для ознакомления с завещанием. Его смерть была внезапной, хотя и ожидаемой. Причиной смерти назывались естественные причины. Однако после достаточно бестактного заявления Коры: «Его ведь убили, не так ли?», адвокат семьи начинает подозревать, что было совершено преступление и решает начать расследование.

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!

На довыборах в парламент телевизионная знаменитость Боб Уилкот от консерваторов соперничает со Стеллой Стокер от социалистов. Что будет, если политические конкуренты влюбятся? Агенты противоборствующих партий вступают в сговор чтобы предотвратить электоральную катастрофу.

A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.

Группа цирковых детей и их друзей объединяются, чтобы спасти шоу от финансовой катастрофы.

Доктор Бен и Джо МакКенна, простые, ничего не подозревающие туристы, едут провести отпуск в Марокко. Вместе с ними их сын Хэнк, они наслаждаются отпуском, когда встречают мистера и миссис Дрэйтон, супружескую пару из Англии, и подозрительного, но дружелюбного француза Луи Бернара. Позже, когда Бен и Джо ходят по базару, к ним подбегает араб с ножом в спине. Бен буквально подхватывает падающего араба и, к своему ужасу, узнает, что это переодетый Луи Бернар. Француз успевает прошептать что-то Бену, и тот оказывается втянутым в самый центр международного заговора, участники которого ставят своей целью покушение на высокопоставленную особу, остановить ход событий может только Бен. Хичкок сам появляется в фильме в эпизодической роли, как и его композитор, Бернард Херрманн.

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim

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.

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

Эксцентричный изобретатель Сидни Стрэттон работает на текстильной фабрике. Однажды ему удается создать нечто необыкновенное. Новая ткань, изобретенная им, не рвется, не мнется, не изнашивается. Конкуренты начинают за ним охоту…

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…

Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.

Фильм рассказывает об участии рядовых англичан в годы Второй мировой войны в обороне страны.

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Этот фильм - первая экранизация пьесы Бернарда Шоу о превращении вульгарной цветочницы Элизы Дулиттл в изысканную светскую даму под чутким руководством профессора фонетики Генри Хиггинса и полковника Пикеринга. Бернард Шоу написал свою пьесу под вдохновением древнегреческого мифа о скульпторе Пигмалионе, который создал статую Галатеи — девушки до того прекрасной, что он влюбился в нее и стал просить Афродиту оживить свое создание. Богиня любви вдохнула жизнь в Галатею, и Пигмалион женился на ней.

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.

George Gommery enjoys slipping up to town to see some little actress, and never suspects that his wife can play the same game just as well as he can. Or at least, he never suspects until he tells his wife that her lover is engaged to the woman whom he has been entertaining in London.

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.

A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

British comedy film directed by Max Mack

British comedy film directed by Max Mack

The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

Боб и Джилл Лоуренс проводят отпуск в Швейцарских Альпах вместе со своей дочерью Бетти. На глазах у супружеской пары погибает их новый знакомый — француз Луи Бернар. Перед смертью он успевает прошептать Бобу несколько слов о готовящемся шпионском заговоре. Для того чтобы Боб молчал, злоумышленники похищают и держат в заложниках его дочь. Супруги должны спасти своего ребенка и выполнить гражданский долг — не допустить покушения на известного дипломата.

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeble second-best, or will active service make a man of him?

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.

A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical

A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.

Американский детективный фильм 1932 года, снятый Генри Кингом по сценарию Гая Болтона и Макса Марчина.

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.

Англичанин Рональд Куэйл был обвинен в убийстве своего отца, и, на основе показаний, данных его мачехой Кэролайн, был признан виновным и заключен в тюрьму. Рональду удаётся бежать и переправиться в США, где он находит работу на нефтяном месторождении. Взрыв уродует его, однако даёт ему возможность вернуться на родину: после прохождения пластической хирургии, он возвращается в Англию под псевдонимом Роберт Крокетт, полный решимости доказать, что его отца на самом деле убили его мачеха Кэролайн и ее любовник, Джек Аттерсон.

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.

Светский жиголо охотится за богатой матерью и ее дочерью, но пытается найти настоящее счастье со своей девушкой, которая не богата и не находится в «обществе».