Ian McLean

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Thank Evans
1

Thank Evans

Oct 16, 1938
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
Comedy
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
6.6
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Crime
That’s The Ticket
1

That’s The Ticket

Oct 12, 1940
Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
Comedy
Murder Will Out
1

Murder Will Out

Aug 13, 1939
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
Drama
Marigold
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Marigold

Nov 03, 1938
Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
Drama
The Street Singer
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The Street Singer

Mar 01, 1937
Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
Comedy
Jack of All Trades
5.5

Jack of All Trades

Dec 30, 1936
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Comedy
Dreaming
7

Dreaming

Nov 28, 1944
When a pretty Wren faints in a crowded train, Private Bud Flanagan and Captain Ches Allen are quick to render first aid. But over Bud's head, a heavy kitbag wobbles; it falls and scores a direct hit, knocking him unconscious. What follows is a dream sequence involving Ches, the Wren and Bud himself in a series of hilarious adventures as well as a magical medley of the duo's best-loved musical numbers!
Comedy
Brewster's Millions
6

Brewster's Millions

Jan 01, 1935
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
Music
Mayfair Melody
1

Mayfair Melody

Aug 23, 1937
“Romantic comedy of a motor factory mechanic encouraged to train his voice by the daughter of the magnate.” - BFI.
Romance
Thistledown
1

Thistledown

Jan 01, 1938
The Viennese bride of a Scottish peer is driven away by suspicion and unfriendliness from his family. Famous, she buys the estate and her husband returns to be reconciled with her and the son of whom he never knew.
Music
Quiet, Please
1

Quiet, Please

Jun 27, 1938
“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Comedy
The Young Mr. Pitt
5.5

The Young Mr. Pitt

Sep 21, 1942
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Drama
Atlantic Ferry
5.5

Atlantic Ferry

Sep 06, 1941
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Romance
The Story of Shirley Yorke
5.5
Nurse Shirley Yorke must assist her boss Dr Napier, the only person able of effecting a new treatment on the ailing wife of a British Lord. The woman dies and the finger is very strongly pointed at Sister Shirley because she and the Lord were former lovers.
Drama
Headline
5.5

Headline

Nov 16, 1943
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Crime
Calling Paul Temple
6.4

Calling Paul Temple

Apr 29, 1948
Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Mystery
The Shipbuilders
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The Shipbuilders

Dec 15, 1943
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Drama
Read All About It
4.6

Read All About It

Apr 08, 1945
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Drama
Here Comes the Sun
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Here Comes the Sun

Jan 12, 1945
When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Comedy
Appointment with Crime
5.9
Le voleur de bijoux à la petite semaine Leo Martin est abandonné par ses complices, le propriétaire du club Gus Loman et le chauffeur Hatchett, lorsque le vol qu'ils commettent tourne mal. Après avoir purgé sa peine de prison, Leo revient avec un plan de vengeance complexe.
Crime
Le Reptile
6.8

Le Reptile

Sep 18, 1970
Paris Pitman Jr., prisonnier à la forte personnalité, se sert de l'humanisme du nouveau directeur pour préparer son évasion. Il manipule ses co-détenus pour obtenir leur aide.
Western