Syd Courtenay
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
1931-12-26
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Overview: Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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Boys Will Be Girls
1938-01-24
Boys Will Be Girls
Overview: Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-24
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Why Sailors Leave Home
1930-09-01
Why Sailors Leave Home
Overview: When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-01
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The Pride of the Force
1933-01-01
The Pride of the Force
Overview: This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Old Spanish Customers
1932-09-15
Old Spanish Customers
Overview: A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-15
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Lost In The Legion
1934-07-13
Lost In The Legion
Overview: Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Not So Quiet on the Western Front
1930-05-01
Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-01
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Bill's Legacy
1931-11-01
Bill's Legacy
Overview: A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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Kiss Me Sergeant
1930-06-01
Kiss Me Sergeant
Overview: In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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What a Night!
1931-03-13
What a Night!
Overview: While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-13
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Poor Old Bill
1931-06-22
Poor Old Bill
Overview: A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-22
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Cotton Queen
1937-06-01
Cotton Queen
Overview: The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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