Julius Hagen

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.

A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.

The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.

When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.

At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.

The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.

The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.

'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)

One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.

When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.

British crime film directed by George A. Cooper.

Действие романа разворачивается в Лондоне и его пригородах. В центре сюжета лежит расследование убийства богатого и знатного семейного тирана — лорда Эджвера, которого подспудно (прямо в романе это не констатируется, хотя Гастингс упоминает собрание сочинений маркиза де Сада, увиденное в его библиотеке) уличают в склонности к садизму. Убийство происходит в собственной библиотеке лорда Эджвера в его доме. При этом обстоятельства убийства, в отличие от большинства других романов А. Кристи, не представляют собой ничего интересного. Интрига заключается в том, что убийство сопровождалось костюмированным розыгрышем, и в течение всего романа следствие пытается понять, кто стоял за этим розыгрышем и имеет ли он вообще отношение к убийству.

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.

A retired Admiral steals jewels and is pursued by Spanish bandits.

'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.

The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.

'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

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.

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

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.

'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)

A young man impersonates a doctor.

A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.

Шерлок Холмс идет по следу картины Рембрандта, украденной наркозависимым художником.

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)

To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.

A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.

A crime film directed by Guy Newall.

Британский детективный фильм режиссёра Лесли Хискотта (англ. Leslie S. Hiscott), вышедший в 1931 году, по пьесе «Чёрный Кофе» Агаты Кристи с участием её знаменитого частного детектива Эркюля Пуаро. В роли Эркюля Пуаро снялся Остин Тревор, в роли его спутника капитана Гастингса — Ричард Купер.

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister

A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.

Эта драматизация романа Кристи впервые появилась на сцене в Лондоне с Чарльзом Лоутоном в роли Пуаро.

The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.

A mystery film directed by Arthur Maude

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

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)

In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.

Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

Профессор Эпплби терроризировал свою жену Элеонору, но когда он был убит, а ее любовник Дерек пропал без вести, Элеонора подозревает худшее. Появляется таинственный незнакомец, известный как «мистер Куинни» или «мистер Куин», и начинает соблазнять Элеонору, но его алкоголизм берет верх, и он умирает. Перед смертью он показывает, что все это время был Дереком, и предлагает девушку сопернику, который обещает сделать Элеонору счастливой женой.

Профессор Эпплби терроризировал свою жену Элеонору, но когда он был убит, а ее любовник Дерек пропал без вести, Элеонора подозревает худшее. Появляется таинственный незнакомец, известный как «мистер Куинни» или «мистер Куин», и начинает соблазнять Элеонору, но его алкоголизм берет верх, и он умирает. Перед смертью он показывает, что все это время был Дереком, и предлагает девушку сопернику, который обещает сделать Элеонору счастливой женой.