Leslie Perrins
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1901-10-07
Locus Natus: Moseley, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, U
Et ut:
Idol of Paris
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches...
release : 1948.04.24popularis : 6.872
Sunshine Ahead
'Producer stages outside broadcast despite jealous critic.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1936.01.01popularis : 1.192
Lord Edgware Dies
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware,...
release : 1934.07.31popularis : 2.033
A Run for Your Money
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...
release : 1949.11.23popularis : 1.567
The Big Frame
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...
release : 1952.09.01popularis : 1.83
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country...
release : 1935.03.24popularis : 2.758
Early to Bed
'Manicurist Grete and nightclub waiter Carl share a bed, but not at the same time. They hate each other, even though they have never met. Their...
release : 1933.08.08popularis : 0.864
The Gang's All Here
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...
release : 1939.03.04popularis : 0.668
The Village Squire
Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his...
release : 1935.04.14popularis : 0.675
The Pointing Finger
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
release : 1933.12.26popularis : 0.729
Rhythm in the Air
A young riveter working high up on a steel girder watches a girl practising a tap-dance in a building opposite, and while applauding her, he loses...
release : 1936.08.29popularis : 0.608
The High Command
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
release : 1937.08.23popularis : 7.224
Wanted by Scotland Yard
A safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is...
release : 1939.04.19popularis : 0.592
Blake the Lawbreaker
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
release : 1928.05.01popularis : 0.218
The Clue of the Second Goblet
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
release : 1928.05.01popularis : 0.159
I'll Turn to You
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
release : 1946.06.17popularis : 0.376
The Silent Passenger
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
release : 1935.06.01popularis : 0.65
Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
release : 1936.09.01popularis : 2.157
The Roof
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 0.529
Women Aren't Angels
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S.,...
release : 1943.01.18popularis : 0.23
The Scotland Yard Mystery
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier...
release : 1934.01.03popularis : 1.354
The Lost Chord
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1933.04.07popularis : 0.633
Luck of the Navy
With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on Clive Stanton.
release : 1938.11.27popularis : 0.811
Grip of the Strangler
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
release : 1958.05.11popularis : 1.715
I Killed the Count
Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Davidson is trying to determine who murdered the much-hated Count Matton. The dilemma isn't that the Detective is...
release : 1939.05.06popularis : 0.848
His Lordship Goes to Press
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and...
release : 1939.01.16popularis : 0.512
The Rocks of Valpre
A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.
release : 1935.01.16popularis : 0.383
Suspected Person
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 1.989
The Man Who Changed His Name
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
release : 1934.03.01popularis : 2.06
Sensation
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...
release : 1936.12.16popularis : 0.479
Secret Lives
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order...
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 1.132
No Exit
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
release : 1936.11.26popularis : 0.914
Gay Love
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new...
release : 1934.09.01popularis : 0.578
Open All Night
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
release : 1934.01.01popularis : 1.119
Betrayal
British crime film directed by Reginald Fogwell
release : 1932.03.31popularis : 0.532
Leave It to Smith
A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
release : 1933.09.13popularis : 0.606
Blind Folly
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
release : 1939.11.10popularis : 0.709
Heaven Is Round the Corner
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of...
release : 1944.04.10popularis : 0.68
The Calendar
Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....
release : 1931.10.19popularis : 0.923
The Rosary
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
release : 1931.07.03popularis : 0.701
The Sleeping Cardinal
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
release : 1931.02.15popularis : 1.288
The House of Unrest
A mystery film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon.
release : 1931.03.01popularis : 2.318
White Face
A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
release : 1932.05.01popularis : 0.853
The Price of Folly
When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She...
release : 1937.06.06popularis : 0.381
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
release : 1937.05.01popularis : 1.976
The Lash
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
release : 1934.10.21popularis : 0.419
Fortune Is a Woman
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
release : 1957.03.13popularis : 3.248
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is...
release : 1935.07.22popularis : 1.082
Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
release : 1938.02.01popularis : 0.411
The Turners of Prospect Road
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of...
release : 1947.06.16popularis : 1.903
Guilty?
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...
release : 1956.04.10popularis : 0.593
Man on the Run
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow...
release : 1949.05.20popularis : 2.092
Immediate Possession
A haunted house is put up for sale, who will be the buyer?
release : 1931.02.10popularis : 0.089