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Actors: Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Margetson, J. Pat O'Malley
Synopsis: In this wartime musical, a feisty singer working in a London dive swears that she will become a star. She gets a job in an airplane plant when she learns that her fiance, a producer, and his partner are looking for new talent at the war factories. While working there, the woman meets a handsome Read More
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell, George Zucco
Synopsis: One of the silliest and most unbelievable of the Universal Sherlock Holmes series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington is also undeniably one of the most enjoyable. The story gets under way when an Allied spy (an unbilled Gerald Hamer, one of this series' "regulars") smuggles a valuable piece of Read More
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Milburn Stone, Arthur Margetson
Synopsis: There are those who consider Sherlock Holmes Faces Death to be the best of Universal's Holmes series, though others hold out for 1944's The Scarlet Claw. Based loosely on Conan Doyle's The Musgrave Ritual, the plot finds Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) being summoned to the Read More
Actors: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins
Synopsis: Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into Read More
Actors: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters, Henry Travers
Synopsis: At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no identity and no next of kin, he has nowhere else to go. Unable to stand the loneliness, Colman wanders into the streets, then stumbles into a music hall, where he is befriended by Read More
Actors: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, Dame May Whitty, Hartley Power, Milton Rosmer
Synopsis: A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by Robert Morley. Clive Brook is ideally cast as Robert Maine, a famous movie star who longs for the simpler days before he became the idol of millions-and before he was trapped into a Read More
Synopsis: In this comedy, two van drivers are tricked by a fellow who tells them that they are working with the law when in fact, they are helping him cheat an insurance company. Trouble ensues, but justice prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this thriller, a playwright overhears a gang of men plotting a kidnapping and enlists the assistance of a detective to investigate them. They soon find the ring is fronted by a bogus employment agency that sends "clients" to check out potential victims. Action ensues as they endeavor to stop Read More
Actors: Gitta Alpar, Patrick Waddington, Owen Nares, Arthur Margetson, Margaret Bannerman
Synopsis: The Loves of Mme. DuBarry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The DuBarry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at Read More
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Arthur Margetson, Zena Dare
Synopsis: A loving mother sacrifices all for her son in this drama. She is an artist's model who finds herself financially drained by a dead-beat artist when she falls in love with a younger man, marries him and bears a son. When her beloved husband dies in the war, the old artist tries to win her back. Read More
Synopsis: This musical presentation features the British version of the Leoncavallo opera in English translation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Arthur Margetson, Anthony Holles, Edmund Willard
Synopsis: In this detective comedy, set in London, an intrepid detective and his wife must discover the criminals behind a series of jewel heists. The two follow the robbers' trail to a barber shop that is the front for a jewel fencing operation. To check it out, the detective literally sticks his neck out Read More
Actors: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Arthur Margetson, Ronald Squire
Synopsis: This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at cards and turns to the courts to clear his name. At stake, of course, is his good name and the respect of his peers. The film depicts the British class and court systems and Read More
Actors: Dolly Haas, Arthur Margetson, C.V. France, Basil Radford, Edith Sharpe, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Sefton
Synopsis: This tragedy is a remake of D.W. Griffith's classic silent film. The story is based on "The Chink and the Child," a story by Thomas Burke that tells of the mystical romance between a Chinese fellow and a cockney lass who meet in London's slums. The young woman is seeking to escape her boozy and Read More
Actors: Richard Tauber, Steffi Duna, Diana Napier, Arthur Margetson, Esmond Knight
Synopsis: This beautifully rendered cinemadaptation of Pagliacci is sung in English, with the Leoncavallo music newly arranged by Hans Eisler. The noted counter tenor Richard Tauber is Signor Canio, head of a comic-opera troupe touring the Italian provinces. On stage Canio, dressed as a clown, is expected Read More
Actors: Boris Karloff, Joan Wyndham, Arthur Margetson, Mona Goya, Anthony Ireland
Synopsis: This British programmer tells the dark, thrilling tale of a research scientist who resorts to murder to ensure continued funding for his experiments. The killing begins after the slightly insane Dr. Sartorius (Boris Karloff) runs out of money for his experiments with curing paralysis. He is so Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a famed clown gets jealous and murders his wife and her lover, a soldier. It is notable for its early use of color sequences at the beginning and end of the film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, set in an office, two veterans are hired after the war by the father of a friend who was killed in battle. Trouble ensues when one discovers that the other is embezzling company funds. The other then threatens to tell their late friend's dad the truth about his demise--he had died a Read More
Synopsis: His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued making films until his retirement in 1940. Brenon's first project upon his arrival in London was the feature-length documentary Royal Cavalcade. Covering a 25-year period Read More
Actors: Marta Eggerth, Phillips Holmes, Donald Calthrop, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Breon
Synopsis: Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here played by American actor Phillips Holmes. Paying but scant attention the facts, the film concentrates on Bellini's colorful love life. Evidently the film went through several Read More
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard, George Mozart
Synopsis: This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the American ship Marie Celeste was found drifting with her sails set at half-mast with absolutely no one on board. According to the film, the crewmen were murdered by Read More
Synopsis: This musical features the BBC bandleader trying to deal with his musicians in the recording studio. Meanwhile, outside the studio, his music helps save a band in the jungle from cannibals, helps a group of mountain climbers get out of a foggy area, and starts and ends relationships. ~ Steve Huey Read More
Actors: Matheson Lang, Nova Pilbeam, Lydia Sherwood, Lewis Casson, Arthur Margetson, Jean Cadell
Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old British actress Nova Pilbeam (best known for her work in Hitchcock's Man Who Knew too Much and Young and Innocent) plays the title role in Little Friend. When her parents (Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood) decide to divorce, poor Felicity Hughes (Pilbeam) seeks out a way to bring Read More
Actors: Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman, Arthur Margetson, Richard Bird
Synopsis: Matheson Lang stars as a brilliant British barrister, about to retire due to ill health. He reluctantly agrees to take on the case of a young man (Arthur Margetson) accused of murdering his mistress (Jeanne Stuart). The young man's wife (Margaret Bannerman) does not condone her husband's Read More
Actors: Arthur Margetson, Victor Stanley, Lawrence Hanray, Barry Livesey, Ben Welden
Synopsis: In this romance, a butler falls in love with his master's snooty daughter who will have nothing to do with him because he is but a commoner. The butler's life is about to dramatically change when he learns that he is to be the next Duke of Marlow. He keeps that news to himself as he wants the girl Read More
Synopsis: In this teary drama, a married couple remember their lives together. Heart-wrenching flashbacks ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a devoted father takes the rap for a killing to protect his daughter. She killed the man after he attempted to rape her. Meanwhile, her husband has no idea that she is involved in the death. He staunchly defends her father until she finally tells him the truth. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Charles Laughton, Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen, Jack Osterman, Arthur Margetson
Synopsis: This grim and gripping British melodrama was originally released in 1931 under the title Wolves. The scene is a Labrador whaling camp, where everyone is a fugitive from justice, and not a few are murderers. Dorothy Gish plays Leila, an unconscious survivor of a shipwreck who drifts into the camp Read More
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