Hal Walters

A homily on the duty to save, in the guise of one of the "Albert" rhyming monologues, recited by Stanley Holloway.

Training film made for Ford.

An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

1898 год. Сын бригадного генерала Хэрри Фэвершэм отказывается служить в армии, предпочтя вместо этого женитьбу на Этни Берроуз и спокойную жизнь в счастье и достатке. Свой отказ он подписывает накануне отправки его полка в Суданскую кампанию. Его друзья — Джон Дюррэнс, Питер Берроуз и Том Уиллогби — посылают ему по белому перу, что символизирует трусость. Его возлюбленной Этни также неприятен его выбор, и она дает ему четвертое белое перо. Хэрри, пересмотрев свои взгляды на жизнь, решает доказать свою храбрость, и один отправляется в Египет. Переодевшись туземцем племени Сангали, он появится на поле брани, чтобы спасти жизни тех, кого он любит, и кто считал его трусом!

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.

A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.

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

A British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce

British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)

A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.

A gang of criminals masquerading as ghosts are eventually exposed.

When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

A British crime film directed by John Longden

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.

A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.

Reggie Collins wins a bet that he will capture a notorious crook and his gang.

Hearing his brother the Express Clerk is in trouble, Bob Williams rides to the Express Office only to find the safe open, his brother and the money missing, and himself accused of the robbery. To clear himself he trails and finds the outlaws engaging them in a fight. But during the melee, the gang leader double-crosses his men and sneaks away with the money and Bob now has to catch him.

Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.

Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.