Charles Paton

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...

'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been...

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds....

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through...

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a...

A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator.

Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir...

The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes,...

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a...

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from...

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where...

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken...

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.

A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather...

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

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

'Hall porter forced to join Navy while tracking spies.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film...

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

A reporter on a transatlantic cruise finds himself accused of the theft of valuable stamps. Knowing that he didn't do it, he sets out to find the...

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his...

A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!

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...

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...

'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

A mystery film directed by Arthur Maude

Jimmy finds an abandoned baby while motorcycling in the country.

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.

A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead

'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

A British comedy film directed by John Daumery

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and...

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes...

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up...

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

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...

Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his...

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad...

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

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?

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.