George Graves

Unhinged art dealer William Barton seeks revenge on a man who ruined his career years ago. He does so by attempting to frame the man's son for the theft of $2,500 from the safe in his gallery. However the son has an alibi in Barton's wife, with whom he is having an affair.

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.

Dans les années 30, un trio de chanteurs ambulants composé du petit Gianinno, de sa mère et de son grand-père, accompagnés d'un funambule et de musiciens, arrivent dans un village d'Europe Centrale. L'auberge du village est tenue par un homme étrange, l'une de ses clientes est une cartomancienne réputée pour son avarice. Au cours d'un incendie, la cartomancienne se fait dérober son magot et porte plainte en laissant entendre que le voleur est le petit Gianinno. Celui-ci s'enfuit durant la nuit avec son orgue de Barbarie et son âne. Le vrai voleur, un certain "Diable Noir", ayant caché le butin à l'intérieur du piano du jeune garçon, se lance à sa poursuite à travers les Alpes...

Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unanticipated problems. He is especially concerned about his girl friend who dumped him in favor of the voiceless star.

NEAT AND TIDY (1930) hilarious British Pathe comedy short with wonderful music hall comics. Newlyweds are old by the time their house is built.

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.