Frank LaunderFilmography

Get Charlie Tully

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, Pat Coombs, William Franklyn

Synopsis: In this comedy, two men pursue four very valuable women who have tattooed the location of stolen bonds upon their rumps. The Mafia is also in pursuit of the marked women. The two fellows are lead to Rome where the lead character tries to sell the Sistine Chapel to American tourists. ~ Sandra Read More

The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney, Richard Wattis, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Stratford Johns, Cyril Chamberlain, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Arthur Mullard

Synopsis: Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in The Great St. Trinian's Bank Robbery. Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul (presumably the infamous "Great Train Robbery" of Read More

Joey Boy

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Stanley Baxter, Bill Fraser, Percy Herbert, Lance Percival

Synopsis: In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service. Naturally they choose the army. Once they are assigned to a post they set up successful gambling and liquor operations. When they go overseas, they do the same thing. They are then Read More

Ring of Treason

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Thorley Walters, Nancy Nevinson

Synopsis: Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy underwater weapons establishment in Portland. Humiliated, he falls for the entreaties of enemy spy William Sylvester, who recruits him to steal secret papers. Lee convinces a female Read More

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Cecil Parker, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Irene Handl, Eric Barker

Synopsis: One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s, this farce by Frank Launder features the usual bevy of comely young women who attend the school. This time around, the femmes terribles have just burnt down the school and Read More

Left, Right and Center

Crew: Producer

Actors: Patricia Bredin, Eric Barker, Jack Hedley, Leslie Dwyer, Russell Waters

Synopsis: This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a group of political managers who talk him into running on the Conservative ticket during a political campaign. The managers hope that Carmichael's name value will draw Read More

The Bridal Path

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Travers, Alex Mackenzie, Eric Woodburn, Jack Lambert, John Rae

Synopsis: The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go bride-hunting. The introverted, taciturn Ewan is reaching marriageable age just when the island's elders come up with a new decree. They have decided that there is too much Read More

She Played With Fire

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother, Ian Hunter

Synopsis: Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he makes a business call, to assess the damage from a fire, on Tracey Moreton (Dennis Price) and meets Morton's wife Sarah (Arlene Dahl), with whom Oliver had been involved Read More

The Smallest Show on Earth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford

Synopsis: The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. Read More

The Green Man

Crew: Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jill Adams, Avril Angers, Raymond Huntley

Synopsis: Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now Read More

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries, Alastair Sim, Lisa Gastoni, Sabrina

Synopsis: Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy. Because the girls cannot behave themselves, their headmistress (Alastair Sim in drag!) has been thrown in jail, and the school is surrounded by police and army troops. The Read More

The Constant Husband

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Nicole Maurey

Synopsis: Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway (Harrison) tries to reconstruct his past with the aid of psychiatrist Llewellyn (Cecil Parker). Our hero would have been better off had his memory remained lost: Llewellyn Read More

Wee Geordie

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alastair Sim, Bill Travers, Norah Gorsen, Molly Urquhart, Francis de Wolff

Synopsis:
Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny gamekeeper's son named Geordie (Paul Young), who is coming of age in the Scottish highlands, grows sick and tired of being picked on. He thus decides to answer a Charles Read More

Folly to Be Wise

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alastair Sim, Roland Culver, Elizabeth Allan, Martita Hunt, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain Paris, an army chaplain who endeavors to organize a camp show for the troops. Practically everyone with whom the Captain comes in contact is an "expert" on the sort of Read More

The Great Gilbert and Sullivan

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Peter Finch, Martyn Green

Synopsis: Robert Morley and Maurice Evans play W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, 19th-century composers of such imperishable comic operettas as H.M.S. Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Much is made of the inescapable fact that Gilbert and Sullivan grew to dislike each other intensely. Also Read More

The Belles of St. Trinian's

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies

Synopsis: Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race horse. Alastair Sim wraps up the proceedings with Read More

Lady Godiva Rides Again

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Price, John McCallum, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Henson, Pauline Stroud

Synopsis: Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests. Waitress Marjorie (Pauline Stroud) enters one competition after another, hoping for fame and fortune. She manages to make the finals of a "Lady Godiva" contest, never Read More

The Happiest Days of Your Life

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton, Edward Rigby

Synopsis: A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London during World War II, Axis bombing forces the evacuation of a private all-girls school, St. Swithins. Thanks to a bureaucratic mix-up, the girls of St. Swithins and their Read More

The Blue Lagoon

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Simmons, Susan Stranks, Donald Houston, Noel Purcell, Peter Jones, James Hayter, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more explicit, though it's hardly as racy as the 1980 Brooke Shields version. Two British children, Emmeline (Susan Stranks) and Michael (Peter Jones), are shipwrecked on a tropical Read More

The Great Manhunt

Crew: Producer

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Glynis Johns, Olga Lowe, Jack Hawkins

Synopsis: It isn't surprising that The Great Manhunt invokes fond memories of Alfred Hitchcock; the film was scripted by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, the two former Hitchcock collaborators responsible for the screenplay of The Master's The Lady Vanishes (38). Gilliat also directed this fast-paced Read More

Dulcimer Street

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Stephen Murray, Wylie Watson

Synopsis: Assembled by the reliable team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, London Belongs to Me stars Richard Attenborough as a young, full-of-beans boy looking for fun. Bursting into a staid, wearisome London neighborhood, Attenborough exhorts the others to get some kicks out of life. Unfortunately, his Read More

Captain Boycott

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Byrne, Maureen Delaney, Maurice Denham, Ian Fleming, Liam Gaffney

Synopsis: Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the brutality of Captain Boycott, the rent collector for the Earl of Erne. The impoverished farmers conspire to banish him from the area. When Boycott learns of this, he tries Read More

Green for Danger

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alastair Sim, Leo Genn, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John, Judy Campbell

Synopsis: At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses who was present announces that the man's death was no accident, but a murder -- and then she, too, is murdered. The police are called in, led by Inspector Cockrill (Alastair Sim Read More

I See a Dark Stranger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Garry Marsh, Tom Macauley

Synopsis: I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre. Deborah Kerr is terrific as Irish colleen Bridie Quilty, raised from childhood to despise the British and everything they stand for. Bridie's anglophobia proves useful to Nazi spy Read More

Notorious Gentleman

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Jean Kent, Margaret Johnston, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed due to what was considered graphically amoral and sexual content for its time. Harrison is Vivian Kenway, an unrepentant cad who embarks on a campaign of irresponsible Read More

Soldier, Sailor

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this propagandistic WW II drama, an innocent merchant vessel is targeted by Nazi bombers. The boat is nearly sunk after the raid. Still it stays above the waves and the hapless crew is able to be rescued by a passing Allied fleet. Unfortunately the crew is even more endangered than before Read More

2,000 Women

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston, Reginald Purdell

Synopsis: The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of the women don't get along, they are united in their hatred for their Nazi captors. The story takes a truly melodramatic turn when three English airmen parachute into the camp Read More

Millions Like Us

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Portman, Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Joy Shelton, Basil Radford

Synopsis: Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson Read More

We Dive at Dawn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Portman, John Mills, Reginald Purdell, Louis Bradfield, Niall MacGinnis, Ronald Millar, Jack Watling, Joan Hopkins, Leslie Weston

Synopsis: After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when suddenly they're called back to active duty. Sub commander John Mills has been ordered to pursue and sink the formidable German battleship Brandenburg. A series of nailbiting Read More

The Young Mr. Pitt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John Mills, Raymond Lovell, Max Adrian

Synopsis: Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th century British prime minister William Pitt Jr., here played by Robert Donat. Appointed to his office at the tender age of 24, Mr. Pitt spends most of his time in Parliament Read More

Mail Train

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman, Charles Oliver

Synopsis: One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and Alastair Sim as his dumb-like-a-fox assistant Sergeant Bingham. Borrowing a bit from the 1939 British box-office hit Night Train, the plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a Read More

Kipps

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Phyllis Calvert, Michael Wilding, Sr., Arthur Riscoe, Max Adrian, Philip Sydney Frost

Synopsis: Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash society; it was later the basis of the Tommy Steele musical Half a Sixpence. Michael Redgrave is Arthur Kipps, a nondescript storekeeper who finds himself heir to a large Read More

Night Train to Munich

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis: Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night Train to Munich). Actually he's a British agent, working undercover to rescue a Czech inventor from the Gestapo. The inventor's daughter (Margaret Lockwood) becomes the Read More

They Came by Night

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, George Merritt, Kathleen Harrison

Synopsis: Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill. When a valuable ruby is stolen right from under his nose, Fothergill offers to help Scotland Yard capture the crooks. To do this, he pretends to go crooked himself, the better Read More

A Girl Has To Live

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George Robey, Naunton Wayne

A Girl Must Live

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, George Robey, Hugh Sinclair

Synopsis: A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer). Both feel that they could live most comfortably off the money inherited by the Earl of Pangborough (Hugh Sinclair) a handsome but unworldly nobleman. Despite the most Read More

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers, Wally Patch, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week vacation to the English seaside. Just as the vacation is about to end, a fellow guest in their boardinghouse drives over a cliff and is burned to death. The local cops consider it Read More

The Loves of Madame Dubarry

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Emil

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: George "Gabby" Hayes, Mary Glynne, Clare Greet, John Williams

Synopsis: The British Emil was yet another adaptation of Erich Kastner's frequently-filmed children's novel Emil and the Detectives. John Williams (no relation to the British character actor of the same name) stars as 11-year-old Emil, who while en route to London to visit his aunt is robbed of his Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca Read More

Don't Get Me Wrong

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A gasoline substitute in tablet form is produced by a deranged scientist and advocated by a fairground barker. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Oh, Mr. Porter!

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Percy Walsh

Synopsis: In this British comedy, William Porter (Will Hay) is an accident-prone railroad employee whose sister and brother-in-law arrange for him to be made stationmaster at a run-down rail stop in rural Ireland. She wants to give William a chance to make good, hoping this will keep him far, far away. Read More

Doomed Cargo.

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Gunrunners who even kill their enemies through the use of train wrecks are being trailed by Yankee detective Lowe and girlfriend Cummings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Where's Sally?

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedy, a philandering playboy tires of the fast lane and decides to marry his current girl friend. At the reception, his best friend begins regaling the girl with stories of her new husband's romantic exploits. The bride becomes terribly upset, causing her groom to whisk her out and begin Read More

Educated Evans

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Max Miller, seller of horse racing information, begins a new job as a trainer for a new horse stable owner. His good fortune continues when he bets on the wrong horse and wins big. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Twelve Good Men

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

So You Won't Talk?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Monty Banks, Vera Pearce, Bertha Belmore, Muriel Angelus

Synopsis: Dapper, diminutive Monty Banks was a major comedy star in silent pictures, but his pronounced Italian accent proved a drawback in talkies. Accordingly, Banks' most successful sound vehicle was So You Won't Talk?, during which he utters only a handful of words. His silence is motivated by the terms Read More

Black Mask

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Black Mask is a gentleman crook who robs from the rich to give to the deserving. A crusading newspaperman is sympathetic to the Black Mask's motives; nonetheless, he begins a print campaign to bring the criminal to justice. When the journalist is murdered, the Black Mask tops the suspect list. Read More

Rolling Home

Crew: Screenwriter

Get off My Foot

Crew: Screenwriter

Mr. What's-His-Name

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedy, a pickle magnate becomes an amnesiac following a train crash. He subsequently opens a beauty salon and ends up marrying a beautician. The pickle king's wife has also remarried as she believes her first husband dead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Those Were the Days

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the illusion alive, the woman dresses her adult son as a boy. The truth is finally revealed during a wild music hall party. Fortunately, the judge is willing to accept them as they Read More

Happy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff, Will Fyffe, Renée Gadd, Dorothy Hyson

Synopsis: Too expensive for a "quota quickie" but not quite costly enough to qualify as an "A" picture, Happy is a shapeless but generally satisfying vehicle for several of England's top music-hall attractions. Stanley Lupino (Ida's dad) and Laddie Cliff star as Frank and George, a pair of nightclub Read More

You Made Me Love You

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Thelma Todd, Stanley Lupino, John Loder, Hugh E. Wright, James Carew, Gerald Rawlinson, Charlotte Parry

Synopsis: In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song. They then fall in love. She is a feisty, untamed sort and soon after the wedding, the fireworks begin as they constantly bicker. At one point their rows become so violent that Read More

Facing the Music

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Stanley Lupino, Morris Harvey

Synopsis: While the opera "Faust" plays in the background, Lupino, in the audience, attempts to meet the girl of his dreams, Burne, also in the audience. Unforeseen events make the encounter difficult. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Southern Maid

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the escapades of two Spanish couples. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hawley's of High Street

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Fuller, Amy Veness, Francis Lister, Moore Marriott

Synopsis: Fuller goes against butcher Marriott for a position on the local council in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

For the Love of Mike

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter, Viola Tree

Synopsis: In this mystery a man who will do anything for his lover tries to get back his power of attorney so that he can manage his true-love's fortune. He wants it back because he realizes that she no longer trusts her guardian who has been administering her trust fund. In order to get it back he attempts Read More

After Office Hours

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Frank Lawton is in love with Heather Angel, so secretary Viola Lyel, who is older and more experienced in such matters, takes it upon herself to help scheme up a plan to help him receive the affections of Angel, also a secretary. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Coupon

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leslie Fuller, Mary Jerrold

Synopsis: In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His wife is utterly appalled by his schemes. Fortunately, he didn't win it after all and peace is restored. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Josser in the Army

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Set during WW I, this comedy chronicles the heroism of a bungling British soldier who saves the day in spite of himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hobson's Choice

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell

Synopsis: Everyone remembers David Lean's near-perfect 1954 film version of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice -- but can the same be said for the first talkie version, filmed in 1931 (itself a remake of a 1920 silent)? James Harcourt stars as Hobson, a domineering, whiskey-loving bootmaker who Read More

The W Plan

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gibb McLaughlin, Gordon Harker, Cameron Carr

Synopsis: The time is WWI. British guerilla fighter Col. Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) makes his way behind enemy lines to foil the Germans' plans to destroy those towns presently controlled by the Allied Expeditionary Forces. The Germans have planted a series of mines throughout the countryside, in a pattern Read More

The Woman Between

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Hawthorne

Synopsis: Two prolific British character actors contributed to the production end of The Woman Between; its script was adapted from Conflict, a play by Miles Malleson, and it was directed by Miles Mander (best to avoid any cracks about "miles and miles"). Adrienne Allen plays Lady Pamela, the daughter of Read More

Keepers of Youth

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this British drama, a new public school encounters trouble when the new sports instructor arrives and begins using his willful personality to manipulate his peers and the headmaster. When he attempts to forcibly foist himself upon the assistant matron, a brave hero intervenes and saves her. Read More

Children of Chance

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, John Stuart, Dorothy Minto, John Longden, Gus McNaughton

Synopsis: Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous actress. When Lia skeedaddles to Berlin with a cache of stolen jewels, Binnie takes her look-alike's place on stage. She falls in love with Lia's sweetheart Gordon (John Stuart Read More

Song of Soho

Crew: Screenwriter

Harmony Heaven

Crew: Screenwriter

The Middle Watch

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Owen Nares, Jacqueline Logan, Jack Raine, Dodo Watts, Fred Volpe

Synopsis: A literal adaptation of the popular stage play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, specialists both in maritime comedies, The Middle Watch stars Owen Nares as Captain Maitland, skipper of a battleship bound for the high seas. Not only is Maitland a by-the-book disciplinarian, but he's also an avowed Read More

Under the Greenwood Tree

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Marguerite Allan, John Batten, Nigel Barrie

Synopsis: In this drama set in the English countryside, a town squire causes quite a ruckus when he decides to buck tradition and replace the ancient church organ so he can cozy up to the lovely young newcomer (who just happens to play the organ) in town. As soon as the woman figures out his plan, she Read More