Garry MarshFilmography

Where the Bullets Fly

Actors: Tom Adams, Dawn Addams, Sidney James, Michael Ripper

Synopsis: In this lively British parody of James Bond movies, a dashing secret agent goes to extremes to save the British Parliament from a communist take-over. To do this, he must keep the Ripper, a notorious double-agent from stealing a newly developed aircraft metal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Avengers: Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellers

Synopsis: Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically murdered. The culprit turns out to be a has-been vaudeville comedian, who resents the fact that Project Cupid plans to demolish a number of old music halls. Captured by the Read More

Ring of Treason

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

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

In Trouble with Eve

Synopsis: The British town of Warlock is scandalized by Hazell's cottage-turned-tearoom with the local inspector found in a compromising situation and the marriage of Hazell to the mayor. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Johnny, You're Wanted

Synopsis: In this thriller, a trucker offers a hitchhiking girl a lift and ends up careening out of control when he is later accused of killing her. He decides that the only way to clear his name is to launch his own investigation and in so doing finds himself up to his axles in intrigue. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Who Done It?

Actors: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh, George Margo

Synopsis: Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual double entendres in favor of pure-and-simple slapstick, Hill plays a would-be private eye named Hugo. Before he quite knows what's happening, Hugo is up to his neck in Read More

Man of the Moment

Actors: Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde

Synopsis: Norman Wisdom made his third film appearance in the slapstick musical Man of the Moment. This time, Norman is a clerk in the British ministry who is forced to sub for an ailing delegate at a Geneva Peace Conference. In his usual bumbling fashion, our hero becomes intimately involved in the affairs Read More

Aunt Clara

Synopsis: A prim and pious old woman suddenly has her hands full when her devilishly free-spirited uncle dies and bequeaths her his five greyhounds, a ramshackle tavern and a popular cathouse in this British comedy that features a number of guest appearances by some of the country's most popular comedians. Read More

Double Exposure

Synopsis: A lady photographer clicks a few revealing pix at the home of a wealthy woman. When the home's occupant commits suicide, the photographer is accused of prompting this tragedy. Inspector John Bentley suspects there's more to the case than is readily apparent. It turns out that the dead woman was Read More

The Big Frame

Actors: Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh, John Bentley, Dianne Foster

Synopsis: The Anglo-American melodrama The Big Frame was released in Britain as Count the Hours. Mark Stevens stars as a Texas-born test pilot who heads to England to marry his wartime sweetheart Jean Kent. At a reunion party with his air force chums, Stevens gets into a boozy brawl with one of the Read More

Murder Will Out

Actors: Valerie Hobson, Edward Underdown, Henry Kendall, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: James Robertson Justice, Edward Underdown and Henry Kendall are implicated in an unsolved murder. the victim was a beautiful secretary on intimate terms with the suspects. Justice, a waspish author married to long-suffering Valerie Hobson, is the most suspicious of the bunch. As the case unfolds Read More

Those People Next Door

Synopsis: Set WW II-era Britain, this romantic venture begins when a working-class woman and a RAF officer fall in love. The affair causes upset in both families as they are aware that such inter-social class relationships are frowned upon. The parents' attitudes change when the officer is reported missing Read More

Madame Louise

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bookie wins a boutique and decides to modernize the joint by devising, new, more effective programs for running it. Those who have worked in the shop for years are not pleased with the new changes, and when the bookies elaborate plans blow up in his face, they are only too Read More

The Magic Box

Actors: Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell, Robert Beatty, John Charlesworth, James Kenney

Synopsis: The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously forsook their usual salaries for the privilege of paying tribute to that unsung pioneer of cinema, William Friese-Greene, here played by Robert Donat. Adapted by Eric Ambler Read More

Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure

Synopsis: Once again comedian Arthur Lucan dons an old woman's togs to become the tart-tongued Irish washerwoman. This time Mother Riley gets into the thick of things when her daughter finds a South Seas treasure map and they set sail to find it. Upon their arrival to the remote island, Mother Riley ends up Read More

Worm's Eye View

Synopsis: In this comedy, five fighters from the Royal Air Force end up staying in a family home during WW II. Their bitter landlady isn't pleased by her guests and takes it out on her hapless family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Something in the City

Synopsis: In this comedy, a street artist has successfully conned his wife and family into believing that he is a well-to-do businessman. This scam has been going on for many years. Unfortunately, it all blows up in his face when his alter ego is believed murdered and that he is the prime suspect. ~ Sandra Read More

Mystery at the Burlesque

Actors: Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwee, Jack Livesey, Eliot Makeham, Jimmy Edwards

Synopsis: The tantalizingly titled Mystery at the Burlesque was originally released in England as Murder at the Windmill. It must be explained that, for many years, London's Windmill Theatre was famous for its scantily clad chorus girls and potty-mouthed comedians. Filmed on location at the Windmill, the Read More

Miss Pilgrim's Progress

Actors: Yolande Donlan, Michael Rennie, Garry Marsh, Emrys Jones, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: Miss Laramie Pilgrim (Yolande Donlan) is an American factory girl. Anxious to see what life is like outside her own backyard, Miss Pilgrim trades places with a British lass. After reels and reels of culture-clash comedy, the heroine comes to the rescue of her new friends and neighbors, who are Read More

Someone at the Door

Synopsis: In search of great story to further his career, a journalist sets himself up to be suspected of killing his sister, but he is nearly executed for his trouble. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Forbidden

Synopsis: In this drama, a medicine seller falls for an ice cream vendor. Unfortunately, his wife won't grant him a divorce. In order to help her change her mind, he slips her some pills in an attempt to give her a coronary. It works and so he buries her. As he does, he finds the extra pills. She had died Read More

Paper Orchid

Synopsis: A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered in the gossip columnist's apartment. It is a puzzling mystery until a rival reporter confesses that he killed the fellow in a drunken rage and hid the body in the columnist's Read More

Badger's Green

Synopsis: Originally filmed in 1934 (see entry 84314), R.C. Sheriff's venerable stage comedy Badger's Green was given another screen treatment in 1949. The plot is the same as before: a group of villagers revolt when their precious cricket field is threatened with demolition by a fat-cat business firm. Most Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Actors: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen, David Tomlinson

Synopsis: Anticipating The Defiant Ones by nearly ten years, the British My Brother's Keeper concentrates on the exploits of two handcuffed-together escaped convicts. The protagonists are career criminal George Martin (Jack Warner) and terrified "first timer" Willie Stannard (George Cole). The film is one Read More

William Comes to Town

Actors: Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh, Hugh Cross

Synopsis: The popular "William" novels of British author Richmal Crompton were brought to the screen several times in 1930s and 1940s. William Goes to Town one of the better efforts in this off-and-on series. Young William Graham plays the eponymous wise-mouthed little schoolboy who causes all sorts of Read More

Good Time Girl

Actors: Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Flora Robson, Griffith Jones

Synopsis: Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off unpromisingly, as juvenile justice official Flora Robson tries to keep a would-be female felon on the straight-and-narrow, telling the cautionary tale of Gwen Rawlings (Jean Read More

Things Happen at Night

Synopsis: An amiable poltergeist causes problems in a family's home by taking over the body of the youngest daughter in this comedy. It is a scientist and an insurance investigator who figure out what happened. Real mayhem ensues when the spirit jumps into the body of the insurance detective. ~ Sandra Read More

While the Sun Shines

Actors: Barbara White, Ronald Squire, Brenda Bruce, Bonar Colleano, Ronald Howard

Synopsis: Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator Terence Rattigan. Set in WW2 London, the story revolves around Lady Elizabeth Randall (Barbara White), who is serving her country as an Air Force corporal. While en route to Read More

Dancing with Crime

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Barry Barnes, Sheila Sim, John Warwick

Synopsis: Hollywood films were linking up dance halls with criminal activities long before the British-made Dancing with Crime, which does not mean that this 1949 melodrama is any less worthwhile. Adding a contemporary twist, the criminals operating within the shilling-a-dance joint are black marketeers Read More

Just William's Luck

Actors: William Graham, Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh, Hugh Cross

Synopsis: William, the obstreperous Welsh schoolboy created by children's novelist Richmal Compton, appeared in several film incarnations in the 1930s and 1940s, none of them as successful as Compton's original books or the spin-off radio series. William Graham stars as the argumentative title character Read More

Frieda

Actors: Mai Zetterling, Gilbert Davis, David Farrar, Stanley Escane, Glynis Johns, Flora Robson, Albert Lieven, Barbara Everest, D.A. Clarke-Smith

Synopsis: The problem of "enemy" war brides was eloquently addressed in the British drama Frieda. In her English-language film debut, Mai Zetterling plays the title character, the German wife of RAF officer Robert (David Farrar). Though an avowed anti-Nazi, Frieda faces acrimony and prejudice when Read More

Code of Scotland Yard

Actors: Oscar Homolka, Derek Farr, Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth Griffith, Manning Whiley

Synopsis: Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood film noir genre. Oscar Homolka plays a seemingly benign antique dealer who maintains a comfortable lifestyle by fencing stolen goods. Homolka's daughter (Muriel Pavlow), an Read More

I See a Dark Stranger

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

A Girl in a Million

Actors: Hugh Williams, Joan Greenwood, Naunton Wayne, Wylie Watson

Synopsis: Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently divorced inventor who becomes a scientist for the War Office to escape women, especially overtalkative, nagging ones like his ex-wife. Unfortunately, his female-free peace is Read More

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Michael Rennie, Peter Graves, Moore Marriott

Synopsis: Australian-born comic actor Vic Oliver was usually at his best on-screen when teamed with an unusually talented leading lady. Oliver's vis-a-vis in the British I'll be Your Sweetheart was film favorite Margaret Lockwood. Set in the early 1900s, the film concerns the trials and tribulations of Read More

Notorious Gentleman

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

Dead of Night

Actors: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall, Roland Culver

Synopsis: Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of supernatural terror from four different directors, yet it ultimately feels like a unified whole. The framing device is simple but unsettling, as a group of strangers find themselves Read More

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Actors: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers

Synopsis: The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper, looking for an easy way out of the relationship. Withers entices a chemist's son to act as accomplice in a tricky murder scheme. She is certain that no one will suspect that Read More

Return to Yesterday

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

Let George Do It

Actors: George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby plays a dimwitted entertainer who is mistaken for a notorious Nazi spy. The misunderstanding is played to the hilt, culminating with our hero battling the forces of the Axis Read More

It's in the Air

Actors: George Formby, Polly Ward, Garry Marsh, Julien Mitchell, Jack Hobbs

Synopsis: The original British title of this wartime musical farce was George Takes The Air. George is George Formby, the toothy little chappy with the ukulele whose films made oodles of money in the 1930s and 1940s. This time, Formby is an 'umble Army private mistaken for a dashing RAF pilot. Had their Read More

Trouble Brewing

Synopsis: Most of British regional comedian George Formby's vehicles were released in the US through Columbia Pictures; somehow Trouble Brewing slipped through the cracks. Bucktoothed Formby plays a newspaper printer who wins big at the racetrack. Unfortunately he is paid off in counterfeit bills. To avoid Read More

This Man Is News

Actors: Barry Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, John Warwick, Philip Leaver

Synopsis: This Man is News is a British imitation of Hollywood's Thin Man pictures. The "Nick and Nora" herein are Barry K. Barnes as an investigative reporter and Valerie Hobson as his helpful wife (?) After writing a series of articles about an elusive gang of jewel thieves, Barnes is framed for robbery. Read More

Let's Be Famous

Actors: Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver, Sonnie Hale, Patrick Barr, Milton Rosmer

Synopsis: An Irish fellow is determined to become a singing radio star. Unfortunately, fate seems to be determined to thwart him at every turn in this comedy. The trouble begins when he leaves his Irish village to go to a British radio station where he believes he is going to get his big chance to sing. Read More

Old Mother Riley Joins Up

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, the boisterous Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Four Just Men

Actors: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee

Synopsis: The eponymous Four Just Men of this film are British World War I comrades, who reunite in peacetime to bring disaster to their country's enemies. The quartet is not above murder and sabotage to achieve their ends, but their patriotism is never in question. The goal of the heroes is to thwart a Read More

This Man in Paris

Actors: Barry Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Mona Goya

Synopsis: This Man in Paris was the followup to the successful British comedy-mystery This Man is News. Barry K. Barnes and Valerie Hobson return as Simon and Pat Drake, London's answer to Nick and Nora Charles. The plot gets under way when Simon, star reporter for a London tabloid, is dispatched to Paris Read More

Break the News

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Jack Buchanan, June Knight, Marta Labarr, Gertrude Musgrove

Synopsis: What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer Maurice Chevalier, legendary director Rene Clair, and songwriter Cole Porter. But what should have made for dynamite entertainment, fizzled in the eyes of disappointed contemporary Read More

Hoots Mon!

Synopsis: In this comedy, the funniest comic in England is dared by "Scotland's Bluebelle," a popular male impersonator to try his material in Scotland. He accepts and fails miserably. His manager then tries to get him in a smaller club to hone his material, but he finds the audience even less responsive. Read More

Bank Holiday

Actors: John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, Renee Ray, Linden Travers, Merle Tottenham

Synopsis: A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class Brightoners on holiday. Margaret Lockwood and Hugh Williams played the largest roles, as a couple who find love during their one-day respite from work. Comic relief (which in this Read More

The Dark Stairway

Synopsis: In this British crime drama an argument over a new anaesthetic results in the murder of a hospital doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

Synopsis: In this British murder mystery, a novelist finds the killer of a librarian. He also finds the family treasure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Convict 99

Synopsis: Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job heading up a reform school for difficult boys. The agency mistakenly believes he is a Mr. Benjamin, a tough prison warden, and he is assigned to one of the country's nastiest Read More

I See Ice

Actors: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfeld, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the misadventures of a prop man (George Formby) for a travelling ice-skating troupe. Inventing a new sort of candid camera in his spare time, our hero gets into a passel of trouble when Read More

Lost on the Western Front

Actors: Paul Cavanagh, Marcelle Chantal, Garry Marsh, Olga Lindo

Synopsis: Romance in Flanders is the American title of the British Lost on the Western Front. Set during WWI, the first part of the story dwells upon the rivalry between Sergeants John Morley (Paul Cavanaugh) and Rodd Berry (Garry Marsh) over the affections of fetching mademoiselle Yvonne (Marcelle Read More

The Lost Chord

Actors: Elizabeth Allan, John Stuart, Mary Glynne, Leslie Perrins

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the love affair between a composer and the concert singer who jilts him for the love of a count. In anger, the composer kills the count in a duel, but loses the use of his right arm. Later the singer dies, and the composer stops writing music. Twenty years pass and he ends up Read More

Who Killed Fen Markham?

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an actress must give up her lover, the son of a prominent banker, because she has a scandalous past. She gets a part in a small show and finds herself pursued by the manager. After he is found dead, the woman is blamed for the crime. Fortunately, the woman's aunt, a nun, goes Read More

The Vicar of Bray

Actors: Stanley Holloway, Hugh Miller, Felix Aylmer, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: In this musical drama set during the reign of Charles I, an Irish priest is assigned to educate the prince. The prince becomes a king and one day the priest approaches and asks the king to release a political prisoner who belongs to the vicar's parish. The king, who promised to grant his former Read More

It's a Grand Old World

Synopsis: When foreclosure is threatened on Gina Malo's home, she gets help from Sandy Powell, who donates his football pool winnings to her. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Melody and Romance

Synopsis: In this musical, a young fellow aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist's daughter. He then adds several talented friends to his act and at last finds success. Unfortunately, on the night of their big radio performance, fire erupts and he ends up Read More

Leave It to Me

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young man is treated badly by his stepfather. Fortunately, a klutzy, but good-hearted policeman intervenes and saves him. The hapless cop then gets involved with and drugged by Chinese thieves. As a result, he is fired from the force. When he somehow manages to wrest a stolen Read More

Intimate Relations

Synopsis: The enigmatic Charles Frank, who wrote and directed several fascinating British productions before seemingly falling off the face of the earth, was responsible for this Jean Cocteau adaptation (the Cocteau original was previously filmed in France). Stripped down to essentials, the plot centers Read More

The Amazing Adventure

Actors: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, Leon M. Lion

Synopsis: Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a rare return trip to England, Cary Grant plays the heir to a huge fortune. Alas, Grant is miserable, because he's never worked for his money. Determined to prove his Read More

Murder on the Set

Synopsis: A Scotland Yard Inpsector sets off to prove that prominent director is really an American gangster in disguise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man in the Mirror

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Ursula Jeans, Aubrey Mather

Synopsis: The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays Jeremy Dilke, a meek, mild-mannered businessman who allows everyone to use him for a doormat. While looking into his mirror, Dilke is confronted by his brusque, assertive alter Read More

Death on the Set

Actors: Henry Kendall, Jeanne Stuart, Eve Gray, Lewis Shaw, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: Befitting its title, Death on the Set takes place in a British film studio (thereby saving on set-construction costs!). Little does anyone suspect that autocratic film director Cayley Morden (Henry Kendall) is in reality an American fugitive from justice. His secret is ultimately discovered by Read More

Debt of Honor

Synopsis: A robbery committed by gambler Fitzgerald is claimed by his friend Banks while the two are stationed at an African outpost. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

All in

Synopsis: Lynn has just received his inheritance--a stable of racehorses. The only problem is that his aunt, a staunch opponent to gambling in any form, is apoplectic at the thought of his owning the stable. She wants him to turn it into a home for working women. That's when then con men show up with a Read More

When Knights Were Bold

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, Garry Marsh, Kate Cutler, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: After several years in India, Sir Guy De Vere (Jack Buchanan) returns to England where he has inherited his ancestral castle. His snobbish relatives, already disgusted by Sir Guy's cheek irreverence (and his insistence upon chumming around with the "common folk"), plot to wrest control of the Read More

Full Circle

A Wife or Two

Synopsis: In this comedy, a divorced couple marry other people but must pretend they are still married to curry favor with a wealthy uncle because they are in his will. Merry mix-ups and mayhem ensue when the foursome go to the uncle's cottage for a little visit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charing Cross Road

Actors: John Mills, June Clyde, Derek Oldham, Belle Baker, Jean Colin

Synopsis: Charing Cross Road is a London thoroughfare where several theatrical boarding houses have set up shop. Each one of these establishments is chock full of show-biz hopefuls, wannabes, has-beens and never-weres. John Mills and June Clyde play Tony and Pam, "at liberty" vaudevillians who arrive in Read More

Department Store

Synopsis: Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald once complained that the sum total of her dialogue during her ingenue days was a petulant "But, Daddy, it's my birthday." Fitgerald is spared this line in the British Department Store, though this doesn't mean that the film is cliché-free. The story involves a crooked Read More

Inside the Room

Synopsis: A house party becomes deadly as several murders are committed following the passing of a famous actress. Detective Austin Trevor investigates the crimes and pins the blame on the dead woman's daughter. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Three Witnesses

Scrooge

Actors: Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop, Robert Cochran, Mary Glynne, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol about a heartless miser who discovers the true meaning of Christmas when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. Hicks co-wrote the screenplay to this film Read More

Mr. What's-His-Name

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

Warn London

Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Loder, Leonora Corbett, D.A. Clarke-Smith

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, a renowned German crime scientist becomes the victim of a con and loses his life savings. To get his revenge, he enlists the aid of a self-serving thief. Together they plot the perfect crime and plan on stealing millions. Unfortunately, before the crime is committed, the Read More

Widow's Might

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a widow listens to the advice of a widowed friend and stages a bogus burglary to win back the affections of her old flame. The women then convince her butler into "confessing the crime. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and mayhem ensues. Fortunately, everything is all Read More

Night Mail

Actors: C.M. Hallard, Henry Oscar

The Silver Spoon

Josser on the Farm

Synopsis: Farm worker Ernie Lotinga confronts a greedy entrepreneur who wants the farm leading to his election as a magistrate and finally his marriage to his dream girl. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Money Mad

It's a Cop

Gay Love

Actors: Florence Desmond, Sophie Tucker

Synopsis: The plotline of the Audrey and Waveney Carlton play Gay Love was so well known in 1934 that Variety considered a synopsis "a waste of time." For the benefit of those not familiar with the story, here's a quick run-down: Music-hall comedienne Gloria Fellows (Florence Desmond) falls in love with her Read More

The Green Pack

Actors: John Stuart, Aileen Marson

Synopsis: Three adventurous young men find themselves duped by a double dealer in this thriller. The story begins after the young lads have convinced a wealthy man into providing financial backing for their African treasure-hunting expedition. While they are away, he immediately entraps one of the fiancees Read More

Rolling in Money

The Love Nest

Synopsis: In this comedy of errors, set during a dark and stormy night, the trouble begins when a married woman suddenly appears at her neighbor's doorstep after having accidentally locked herself out of her house. Naturally, the neighborly fellow allows her to innocently stay the night. The trouble is, he Read More

Ask Beccles

Synopsis: Ask Beccles, a fast-moving British stage farce by Cyril Campion and Edward Dignon, was transferred to the screen in 1933. Garry Marsh plays Beccles, a highly respected business consultant who, in a moment of weakness, turns to crime. Beccles steals a valuable diamond, and for a while congratulates Read More

Falling for You

Actors: Jack Hulbert, Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Tamara Desni, O.B. Clarence

Synopsis: 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. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Man They Couldn't Arrest

Actors: Hugh Wakefield, Nicholas Hannen, Gordon Harker, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: An inventive amateur detective devises a listening device that allows him to eavesdrop on criminals. The trouble begins when he overhears the notorious Black Pearl gang planning their latest heist. Much to his surprise, one of the gangsters is the father of his fiancee. He then hears a murder Read More

That's a Good Girl

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph, Vera Pearce

Synopsis: Dapper song-and-dance man Jack Buchanan was both star and director of That's a Good Girl. Hoping to replenish his bank account, Jack Barrows (Buchanan) tries to marry his female cousin off to a wealthy American. This plan is sidetracked when Barrows, wandering backstage at the Milan opera house Read More

Don't Be a Dummy

Fires of Fate

Actors: Lester Matthews, Kathleen O'Regan, Dorothy Bartlam, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: Told that he has only a year to live, Lester Matthews takes a last vacation to Egypt. Here, Matthews and his fellow tourists are kidnapped by bandits. Having nothing to lose, Matthews behaves defiantly towards his captors, and in so doing wins the respect of the other kidnap victims. By the time Read More

Number 17

Actors: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop, John Stuart, Barry Jones

Synopsis: This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Reporter

Synopsis: Coming in at an economical 44 minutes (and costing an economical 3700 pounds), Star Reporter was one of several collaborations between director Michael Powell and acclaimed mystery writer Philip MacDonald. A sly character named Mandel (Garry Marsh) persuades Lord Longbourne (Spencer Trevor) to Read More

The Maid of the Mountains

Synopsis: The title lass in this Eclipse production is a goatherd-ess, in love with a strapping mountain youth. During his daily sojourn through the hills, the hero gets mixed up in a skirmish between two hunters. To avoid injury, he collapses to the ground and plays dead then escapes into the mountains. Read More

After Office Hours

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

C.O.D.

Synopsis: A very early effort from director Michael Powell, C.O.D is a gimmick-laden British murder mystery. Hope Davy finds herself with the corpse of her stepfather on her hands. She insists she's innocent, but all existing evidence points right in her direction. She takes erudite crook Gary Marsh into Read More

The Dreyfus Case

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Beatrix Thomson, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey

Synopsis: The British-filmed The Dreyfus Case has long been overshadowed by the more elaborate The Life of Emile Zola (1937), but, judged on its own merits, the earlier film weaves a pretty lucid account of an unfortunate chapter in French history. In 1894, army captain Alfred Dreyfus (Cedric Hardwicke) is Read More

Dreyfus

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Beatrix Thomson, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Garry Marsh

Synopsis: The notorious Dreyfus case that sent tremors throughout France in the late 1800s is the subject of this early British sound film, performed in a low-key style by an excellent cast. Cedric Hardwicke is Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the French army's general staff. When treason is discovered Read More

Uneasy Virtue

Actors: Edmund Breon, Francis Lister, Margot Grahame, Garry Marsh, Adele Dixon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a wife vows to make her husband jealous and gets a golden opportunity when a few others come over to play bridge. While they play, a burglar creeps in. He hides out in a bedroom with a wife. The trouble is, none of the husbands know which wife it is. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

P.C. Josser

Synopsis: In this British comedy, the fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but by the picture's end, he manages to redeem himself by breaking up a ring of crooks who have been fixing horse-races by doping up the horses. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Third Time Lucky

Synopsis: In this comedy, a timid clerk musters up his courage to help his ward thwart the blackmailing scheme of his former lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Keepers of Youth

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

The Eternal Feminine

Synopsis: An auto accident injuring aristocrat de Marney forces his wife, former actress Doria March, to get a job in a show financially supported by her brother-in-law, Guy Newall, in this comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Stamboul

Synopsis: In this complex romantic drama set in the Middle East, a German baroness goes there for a visit and ends up falling in love with a French military officer. Her husband is equally adulterous and endeavors to catch her with her lover to insure that he will have custody of the heir after their Read More

Stranglehold

Synopsis: In this drama, a physician falls in love with a woman who unfortunately ends up marrying another man. The doctor is enraged and begins destroying their marriage until the very end when he saves the couple's son from dying. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Birds

Actors: Jack Raine, Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Eve Gray, Frank Perfitt

Synopsis: That notorious criminal "Flash Jack" is at large in London, striking terror in the hearts of everyone (though just why is never made clear). Scotland Yard detective Harry Cross (Jack Raine) dedicates himself to bringing Flash Jack to justice. Cross' efforts lead him to a tender tete-a-tete with Read More