George Carney

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

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

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by...

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

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman...

Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In...

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.

Follows the development of the variety theatre from 1892 to the present day, centred on a family in show business.

Lest We Forget was Canada’s official Great War film. It sparked controversy when it was shown across the country in 1935, during the midst of...

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

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

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

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

A Commissionaire is suspected of a robbery committed by his son.

A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after...

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...

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...

“Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her...

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 Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair...

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" –...

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in...

Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat...

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his...

Nazis are nothing to the wily good soldier Schweik (Lloyd Pearson).

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...

Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only...

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

Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease...

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball