Gibb McLaughlin

'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland...

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth....

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a...

Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a...

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of...

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

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

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

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.

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...

While working as a porter Benjamin Twists mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's...

World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance...

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention....

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter.

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.

British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as...

An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant...

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...

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of...

Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?

'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)

In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of...

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for...

A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.

Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and...

Mrs Frush complains to Sir Hector Benbow that Thark, the large country house she has bought from him, is haunted. Investigators and occupants spend a...

Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw...

In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of...

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of...

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German...

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who...

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.

An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.

A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is...

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.

Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with...

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury and Ladislao Vajda

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.

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an...

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 simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army...

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a...

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

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...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an...

An American millionaire visiting London falls in love with a young aristocrat and elopes with her, pursued by a rival suitor.

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

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

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell,...

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.

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a...

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private...

Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two...

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or...

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.

'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort...

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen...

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.