Thank Evans
Oct 16, 1938An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Comedy
Hal Walters
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Pearls Bring Tears
Mar 20, 1937About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Comedy
L'homme qui en savait trop
Dec 01, 1934En vacances en Suisse avec leur fille, Bob et Jill Lawrence se lient d'amitié avec un Français qui est assassiné. Avant de mourir, il prévient Bob qu'un diplomate va également être assassiné. Pour empêcher le couple de parler, les futurs meurtriers enlèvent leur fille. Jill se rend a l'Albert Hall ou un tueur doit abattre le diplomate et tente de faire échouer l'attentat.
Thriller
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Dec 26, 1931Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Comedy
Just Plain Folks
Feb 18, 1925Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister.
Drama
That’s The Ticket
Oct 12, 1940Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
Comedy
Where There's a Will
Aug 10, 1936Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Comedy
A Fire Has Been Arranged
Jun 01, 1935A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
Crime
Dangerous Traffic
Jun 07, 1926A young newspaper reporter is assigned to investigate mysterious goings-on in a coastal resort town. He discovers the existence of a gang of vicious liquor hijackers. He sets out to expose the ring and help federal agents break it up.
Mystery
Crackerjack
Oct 01, 1938London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Comedy
A Girl Must Live
Sep 24, 1939A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
Comedy
Armes secrètes
Feb 21, 1939Quand des prototypes d'avions de guerre disparaissent mystérieusement, Scotland Yard envoie le Major Hammond mener l'enquête. Il peut compter sur le soutien du meilleur pilote de la base : Tony McVane (Laurence Olivier) et de la journaliste infiltrée Kay (Valerie Hobson). Le mystère est toujours entier quand l'aviateur est envoyé à son tour en mission d'essai, qui tourne à la catastrophe lorsque son appareil est descendu par un navire en plein océan Atlantique. Mais cette attaque donnera peut-être la clef de l'énigme.
Comedy
Les Quatre Plumes blanches
Apr 20, 1939Harry Faversham, lieutenant d'un regiment de cavalerie, a recu de ses amis quatre plumes blanches, symbole de sa couardise. Il n'aura de cesse de se racheter au cours de la guerre du Soudan.
Adventure
Keep Fit
Jul 31, 1937A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
Comedy
Co-operette
Jan 01, 1938Debroy Somers and his Band, comedian Hal Walters and the delightful dance troupe ‘The Six Co-Operettes’ all feature in this full-colour promotional film for the Co-Operative Wholesale Society. Watch with wonder as one sprightly young vegetable tears strips off the other in the bewildering but brilliant ‘carrot and onion dance’. Comedian Stanley Holloway was famous for his comic monologues but for reasons unknown, he never gets started here. The BFI’s copy of this extremely rare film cuts away just as it looks like he’s going begin his routine.
Music
Feather Your Nest
Mar 12, 1937Dora
Jun 14, 1933'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Comedy
Strike It Rich
Nov 04, 1933Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' and pronounces him another Napoleon. Eddie becomes a changed man and issues orders to everyone. Meantime the boss believes Eddie to be the rightful owner of the company so let's him have his way. With the boss ill, Eddie invests heavily in the nutmeg market, almost bankrupting the company. By luck the research department discover that nutmeg is the secret ingredient for the new hair-restorer. The 1933 British Lion comedy feature film "Strike It Rich" starring George Gee and Gina Malo seems to be a 'lost' film on the 35mm cinema film format. However it was released (sadly savagely cut) on the UK Pathescope 9.5mm home movie film format in December 1938. One musical number was cut from the 9.5mm feature film release, but issued separately in a 9.5mm Pathe Vox Review. This print has this extra item edited back in.
Comedy
Verdict of the Sea
Nov 13, 1932When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
Crime
Riding for Life
Jul 30, 1925Hearing his brother the Express Clerk is in trouble, Bob Williams rides to the Express Office only to find the safe open, his brother and the money missing, and himself accused of the robbery. To clear himself he trails and finds the outlaws engaging them in a fight. But during the melee, the gang leader double-crosses his men and sneaks away with the money and Bob now has to catch him.
Western
Great Stuff
Jun 01, 1933A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
Comedy
The Vulture
Jul 19, 1937The Good Old Days
Jan 01, 19391840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances. A rival tavern informs the police and they have to pay a heavy fine. However, they find the money by rescuing a boy and getting the reward.
Comedy
The Viper
Mar 01, 1938Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
Comedy
Beauty and the Barge
Feb 07, 1937A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.
Comedy
Blue Smoke
Dec 01, 1935
Department Store
Oct 06, 1935The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
Comedy
Double or Quits
Jan 01, 1938A 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 real thief, but isn't prepared for what he discovers.
Crime
The Right Age to Marry
Oct 20, 1935A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
Comedy
Mistaken Orders
Jun 29, 1925Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchmen, scheming against the railroad, and, as a result, a fight takes place and a switching order is overlooked which nearly results in a major wreck. Realizing the situation at Hynes, Helen Barton, Vincent's sister, dashes to Hynes in her roadster and puts together a severed telegraph wire to put the station back in communications with headquarters. Meanwhile, Helen's sweetheart, Tom Lawson, is fighting with Sharkey in a run-away engine and it is headed for an open bridge over a river.
Old Spanish Customers
Sep 15, 1932A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Comedy
They Came by Night
Mar 07, 1940A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Crime
Hoots Mon
Apr 26, 1940Come Into My Parlour
Mar 01, 1932The River House Ghost
Dec 01, 1932Can You Hear Me, Mother?
Dec 02, 1935Educated Evans
Sep 01, 1936Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
Comedy
The Danger Zone
Dec 02, 1925Reggie Collins wins a bet that he will capture a notorious crook and his gang.
Drama
Albert's Savings
Aug 31, 1940A homily on the duty to save, in the guise of one of the "Albert" rhyming monologues, recited by Stanley Holloway.
Serves You Right
Jun 01, 1940
Where the North Holds Sway
Jan 01, 1927A Northwest mounted policeman leaves the service to seek revenge for his brother's murder.
Action
The Second Mr. Bush
Apr 02, 1940A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
Comedy
Spies of the Air
Mar 30, 1939Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Adventure
Everything Happens to Me
Dec 01, 1938Comedy
Little Fella
Feb 06, 1933Comedy
