Hal Gordon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: April 16, 1894
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: January 01, 1946
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A Southern Maid
Overview: A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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East of Ludgate Hill
Overview: When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-23
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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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Food for Thought
Overview: In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Captain Bill
Overview: A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Play Up the Band
Overview: A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Overview: In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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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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Facing The Music
Overview: A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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For the Love of Mike
Overview: A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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My Song Goes Round the World
Overview: Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-22
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Josser in the Army
Overview: Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-11
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Brother Alfred
Overview: Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-11
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Jack's the Boy
Overview: With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-11
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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Lucky Girl
Overview: Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-01
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Trouble Brewing
Overview: Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Come on George!
Overview: George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Keep Fit
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-31
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Crime on the Hill
Overview: In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-27
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The Outcast
Overview: A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-29
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Let Me Explain, Dear
Overview: A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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Queen of Hearts
Overview: A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-04
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The Great Defender
Overview: Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-26
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Let George Do It!
Overview: Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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It's in the Air
Overview: George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-01
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The Windjammer
Overview: Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-09-18
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Bill and Coo
Overview: 'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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His Wife's Mother
Overview: A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-01
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Radio Parade
Overview: Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-01
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Spare a Copper
Overview: George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-02
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The Man Behind the Mask
Overview: A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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A Political Party
Overview: A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-09
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Money Talks
Overview: This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus begins to gamble spectacularly with his savings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-15
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Dance Band
Overview: Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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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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Hawleys of High Street
Overview: A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-07
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Invitation To The Waltz
Overview: As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Happy
Overview: A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-11
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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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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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No Exit
Overview: A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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Sleepless Nights
Overview: A journalist is sent to the South of France to interview a reclusive millionaire..He offers his hotel bedroom to the millionaires daughter to use to avoid her boyfriend,who is actually a crook, His boss arrives unexpectedly and as there is no other room available expects to share the hotel room with him, he explains the situation by saying he had just married the girl.Obviously lots of comedic situations arise because of this.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-07
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Their Night Out
Overview: An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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The Last Coupon
Overview: A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-21
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Old Mother Riley Detective
Overview: A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Bad Companions
Overview: A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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Up for the Cup
Overview: A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-14
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Overview: A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-25
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A Night Like This
Overview: Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-05
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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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Indiscretions of Eve
Overview: Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-12
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Money for Nothing
Overview: As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-20
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The New Hotel
Overview: A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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Partners Please
Overview: An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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The Strangler
Overview: A British crime film directed by Norman Lee
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Overview: A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-26
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Tin Gods
Overview: A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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Adam's Apple
Overview: An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-09-03
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18 Minutes
Overview: A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-07
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Overview: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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The Deputy Drummer
Overview: Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-26
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One Good Turn
Overview: In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-11
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Keep Your Seats, Please
Overview: Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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Dusty Ermine
Overview: A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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I'll Turn to You
Overview: When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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Millions Like Us
Overview: When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-01
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Dandy Dick
Overview: The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Next of Kin
Overview: Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-15
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We’ll Smile Again
Overview: Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-07
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Lend Me Your Wife
Overview: 'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Southern Roses
Overview: A musical comedy of false identities.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
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Insult
Overview: 'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-27
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