Alfred Drayton
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 01, 1881
Deathday: April 26, 1949
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A Spot of Bother
1938-01-01
A Spot of Bother
Overview: Skulduggery is on the menu after a bishop hands over a cathedral’s rebuilding fund to a shady businessman. The bishop’s secretary is entrusted with overseeing the investment, but is soon out of his depth as the money is swept up in a brandy and silk underwear smuggling racket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947-03-12
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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First a Girl
1935-11-07
First a Girl
Overview: An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which causes problems for her when a very determined young man falls in love with her. A remake of the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-07
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It's a Boy
1934-06-07
It's a Boy
Overview: "It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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Things Happen at Night
1948-11-03
Things Happen at Night
Overview: A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-03
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Look Up and Laugh
1935-08-13
Look Up and Laugh
Overview: Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-13
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Oh, Daddy!
1935-02-08
Oh, Daddy!
Overview: Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-08
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Tropical Trouble
1936-12-01
Tropical Trouble
Overview: A series of misunderstanding leads to a colonial governor's wife suspecting him of an affair with his assistant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Me and Marlborough
1935-07-22
Me and Marlborough
Overview: A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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They Knew Mr. Knight
1946-03-05
They Knew Mr. Knight
Overview: After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-05
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Don't Take It to Heart
1944-11-13
Don't Take It to Heart
Overview: A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-13
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Radio Parade of 1935
1934-12-12
Radio Parade of 1935
Overview: One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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Falling for You
1933-06-15
Falling for You
Overview: In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-15
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Banana Ridge
1942-04-20
Banana Ridge
Overview: When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-20
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Aren't Men Beasts!
1937-01-19
Aren't Men Beasts!
Overview: Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-19
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Lady in Danger
1934-11-27
Lady in Danger
Overview: Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-27
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So This Is London
1939-03-01
So This Is London
Overview: American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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The W Plan
1930-02-25
The W Plan
Overview: A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-25
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Women Aren't Angels
1943-01-18
Women Aren't Angels
Overview: Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-18
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Jack Ahoy
1934-02-02
Jack Ahoy
Overview: A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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The Crimson Circle
1936-08-10
The Crimson Circle
Overview: Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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The Little Damozel
1933-01-01
The Little Damozel
Overview: A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Red Ensign
1934-06-17
Red Ensign
Overview: David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-17
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The Dictator
1935-02-07
The Dictator
Overview: The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-07
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The Big Blockade
1942-01-19
The Big Blockade
Overview: Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-19
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Brown Sugar
1931-04-21
Brown Sugar
Overview: The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-21
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The Calendar
1931-10-19
The Calendar
Overview: Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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The Squeaker
1930-06-01
The Squeaker
Overview: A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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The Happy Ending
1931-10-01
The Happy Ending
Overview: A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-01
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Lord Babs
1932-02-01
Lord Babs
Overview: A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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A Scandal in Bohemia
1921-04-01
A Scandal in Bohemia
Overview: Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-04-01
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Friday the Thirteenth
1933-11-01
Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Love Maggy
1921-01-01
Love Maggy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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The Honeypot
1920-10-30
The Honeypot
Overview:
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-30
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A Temporary Gentleman
1920-06-01
A Temporary Gentleman
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-01
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A Little Bit of Fluff
1919-05-01
A Little Bit of Fluff
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-05-01
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Iron Justice
1915-06-01
Iron Justice
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-01
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