Frank Birch

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The Challenge
5.9

The Challenge

Sep 14, 1938
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Romance
Face the Music
5.7

Face the Music

Jan 29, 1954
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Crime
Jump for Glory
5

Jump for Glory

Jan 01, 1937
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
Adventure
Love at Sea
1

Love at Sea

Apr 17, 1936
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
Comedy
Victoria the Great
5.3

Victoria the Great

Sep 01, 1937
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Drama
Cross Currents
1

Cross Currents

Jul 01, 1935
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Comedy
Double Exposures
5

Double Exposures

May 01, 1937
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
Crime
The Insect Play
1

The Insect Play

May 29, 1939
A tramp falls asleep in the woods. He dreams of observing a range of insects that stand in for various human characteristics in terms of their lifestyle and morality: the flighty, vain butterfly, the obsequious, self-serving dung beetle, the ants, whose increasingly mechanized behavior leads to a militaristic society.
Music
Who Goes Next?
6.4

Who Goes Next?

Mar 01, 1938
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
War
Will Any Gentleman...?
5.6
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Comedy
The Second Kiss
1

The Second Kiss

Apr 17, 1930
'Romantic story of a gallant adventurer at the Court of Maria Teresa.' (The Bioscope)
Romance
Ashes
1

Ashes

Dec 31, 1930
Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.
Comedy