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Filmography
Silver Blaze
5.5
Overview:
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.Spirits
3.2
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A priest, trying to regain his standing in the church after "falling" and sleeping with a woman, teams with a group of ESP experts to investigate a haunted house. It doesn't help that one of the experts is a beautiful young woman.The American Prisoner
NYR
Overview:
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....General Post
6.5
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An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.Those Were the Days
7.5
Overview:
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.The Middle Watch
5
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Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.Milestones
NYR
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Family saga about several generations of shipbuilders. Believed to be a lost film.Keepers of Youth
NYR
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The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
NYR
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A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.The Old Curiosity Shop
5.3
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A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.Oliver Twist
1
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An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.The Great Defender
4.8
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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.Lucky to Me
NYR
Overview:
Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.Harmony Heaven
7.8
Overview:
The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.The Last Chance
6
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Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall, a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence, but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life, no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...Marigold
NYR
Overview:
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.Old Mother Riley's Circus
4.4
Overview:
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.Dead Man's Shoes
6
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An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.Royal Cavalcade
NYR
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Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.The Love Nest
NYR
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On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
NYR
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A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.Three Silent Men
5.2
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An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.Night Alone
NYR
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Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!Acting
1990Spirits as Henri Picard
Directing
1941Old Mother Riley's Circus ... Director
1940Cavalcade of Variety ... Director
1940Three Silent Men ... Director
1940The Middle Watch ... Director
1940Dead Man's Shoes ... Director
1939Lucky to Me ... Director
1939Me And My Pal ... Director
1938Marigold ... Director
1938Night Alone ... Director
1937The Last Chance ... Director
1937Silver Blaze ... Director
1936She Knew What She Wanted ... Director
1936Music Hath Charms ... Director
1935Royal Cavalcade ... Director
1934The Old Curiosity Shop ... Director
1934The Great Defender ... Director
1934Those Were the Days ... Director
1934The Scotland Yard Mystery ... Director
1933The Love Nest ... Director
1933Hawleys of High Street ... Director
1932Sleepless Nights ... Director
1932The Last Coupon ... Director
1932After Office Hours ... Director
1931Keepers of Youth ... Director
1931Hobson's Choice ... Director
1930Compromising Daphne ... Director
1930Young Woodley ... Director
1930Harmony Heaven ... Director
1929The American Prisoner ... Director
1928The Silver Lining ... Director
1927White Heat ... Director
1924Love and Hate ... Director
1924Old Bill Through the Ages ... Director
1923Through Fire and Water ... Director
1921The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick ... Director
1920Beyond the Dreams of Avarice ... Director
1920General Post ... Director
1918Once Upon a Time ... Director
1916Milestones ... Director
1913David Copperfield ... Director
1912Oliver Twist ... Director
Production
1936She Knew What She Wanted ... Producer