Gibb McLaughlinFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Emaciated British character actor Gibb McLaughlin spent years as a music hall monologist, telling morbid jokes about his many imagined illnesses. McLaughlin also performed a "protean act," playing all the roles with rapid costume changes. Making his film debut in 1921, the prune-visaged McLaughlin...Read More

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Sea Wife

Actors: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire

Synopsis: In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people survive. They are a nun, an RAF officer, a godless bigoted business magnate, and a black purser. The four drift for days before getting themselves washed up on a small desert Read More

1957
The Man Who Never Was

Actors: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd

Synopsis: The Man Who Never Was is the true story of how the Allies threw the Nazis off track in planning the invasion of Sicily. The British Royal Navy exhumes the corpse of a man who died of natural causes, arranging to make it appear as though the dead man was a special services operative carrying the Read More

1956
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

1956
The Brain Machine

Synopsis: A vicious murderer suffers amnesia and his psychiatrist finds his brain waves indicative of violent tendencies. After he escapes and kidnaps the doctor, police follow and soon uncover evidence of gangsters and drug smuggling. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1955
The Deep Blue Sea

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Moira Lister

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea stars Vivien Leigh as the troubled wife of a London attorney (Emlyn Williams). Racked with emotional problems, Leigh turns her back on her loveless marriage and sets up house with a handsome RAF officer (Kenneth More). When her lover Read More

1955
Hobson's Choice

Actors: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales

Synopsis: A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills Read More

1953
The Paris Express

Actors: Claude Rains, Märta Torén, Michael Nightingale, Marius Goring, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the source for the Anglo-American The Man Who Watched Trains Go By. Claude Rains stars as Kees Popinga, chief clerk for a Dutch trading company. Scrupulously honest, Popinga goes off the deep end when he discovers that his employer has been cooking the books to support Read More

1953
Grand National Night

Actors: Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell, Betty Ann Davies, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Grand National Night began life as a stage play, which was promptly adapted as a popular British radio serial. The film combines the best elements of both previous incarnations. Racehorse owner Gerald Coates (Nigel Patrick) accidentally kills his spiteful wife Babs (Moira Lister) during a quarrel. Read More

1953
The Pickwick Papers

Actors: James Hayter, James Donald, Alexander Gauge, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Murton, Kathleen Harrison, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick club, a scholarly league operating in mid-19th century London. The club's avowed purpose is to scrupulously study everyday life in England-not to improve or Read More

1952
Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow

Actors: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick [Fritz] Valk, Geoffrey Sumner

Synopsis: Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George embarks on his annual vacation, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless broom-pusher. Read More

1952
The Promoter

Actors: Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Edward Chapman

Synopsis: The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young clerk Alec Guinness works his way up the financial ladder until he has become a successful and highly respected loan officer. Actually, Guinness is not as above-board as the Read More

1952
I'll Never Forget You

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Beatrice Campbell, Dennis Price

Synopsis: I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a launching pad. Tyrone Power stars as an American atomic scientist working in London. He lives in an ancestral home which dates back to the 18th century. Late one rainy Read More

1951
The Lavender Hill Mob

Actors: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding

Synopsis: Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company Read More

1951
The Black Rose

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Filmed on location in England and Morocco, the story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after Read More

1950
Night and the City

Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: Jules Dassin's Night and the City opens with cheap grifter Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) running for his life through the streets of London. Harry wants to be big-time, and he does not care how he raises cash for his schemes. Like a junkie, he uses and steals from his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney Read More

1950
Once Upon a Dream

Actors: Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, Guy Middleton, Betty Lynne, David Horne

Synopsis: British film star Googie Withers took a break from the steamy melodramas that had previously been her specialty in Once Upon a Dream. Withers plays Carol Gilbert, happily married to Major Gilbert (Guy Middleton). One evening, Carol dreams of an extramarital affair with Gilbert's former aide Read More

1949
The Queen of Spades

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Howard, Mary Jerrold

Synopsis: A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the Russian army in the nineteenth Century. His comrades in arms play cards nightly, but he cannot afford to join them until one night he dreams that he has gained from a Read More

1949
No Orchids for Miss Blandish

Actors: Jack LaRue, Linden Travers, Walter Crisham, Leslie E. Bradley

Synopsis: James Hadley Chase's 1939 bestseller reached the screen for the first time -- which a lot of critics of the book would have said was one time too many -- in 1948, in somewhat bowdlerized form, under the aegis of Renown Pictures and screenwriter St. John Legh Clowes, making his sole bow as Read More

1948
Oliver Twist

Actors: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by Read More

1948
Caesar and Cleopatra

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis L. Sullivan

Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration Read More

1946
Give Us the Moon

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Roland Culver, Peter Graves, Frank Cellier

Synopsis: The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic Oliver delivers a broad performance as Sascha, a dour suicide-prone chap who belongs to an "I won't work" club. The organization was founded by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) on Read More

1944
My Learned Friend

Actors: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Charles Victor, G.H. Mulcaster

Synopsis: Will Hay, he of the pince-nez, outraged sniff, and overall demeanor of dignified incompetence, stars in (and codirects) another of his popular British comedies. In My Learned Friend, Hay is a seedy lawyer, one of several people targeted for death by a vengeful escaped convict. As the criminal's Read More

1943
At Dawn We Die

Actors: John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Sinclair, Greta Gynt, Judy Kelly

Synopsis: Tomorrow we Live is the more upbeat American title of the British war drama At Dawn we Die. When his village is overtaken by Nazis, Frenchman Jean Baptiste (John Clements) tries to go to England. Armed with secret information about a German submarine base, Jean hopes to avenge his countrymen. Read More

1943
Much Too Shy

Synopsis: A bashful artist finds all kinds of trouble in this comedy. A handyman by profession, the shy fellow loves to paint, but can only paint the heads of his models as he is too embarrassed to render the rest of their nude forms. The portraits are very good, and later, in a commercial art class, other Read More

1942
The Young Mr. Pitt

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

1942
Mystery of Room 13

Synopsis: In this mystery, a detective trying to crack a forgery ring gets one of its members to go to prison to help him. When he gets out three years later, he finds that his girlfriend is now with the ringleader, and the detective must save him from being hanged by the gang. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

1941
A Voice in the Night

Actors: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Raymond Huntley, Derek Farr, Joyce Howard

Synopsis: In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to support the oppressive, increasingly brutal movement. At first he does nothing as his friends are persecuted and his wife becomes increasingly enamored with the party's Read More

1941
Spellbound

Synopsis: In this supernatural drama, a college student finds himself fixated upon thoughts of his late lover. Unable to forget her, he attempts to contact her spirit by holding a seance. The experience so frightens him and afterward he suffers a breakdown. Eventually he heals with the assistance of a Read More

1941
The Courageous Mr. Penn

Actors: Clifford Evans, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Arundell, Aubrey Mallalieu, D.J. Williams

Synopsis: Penn of Pennsylvania was the original British title of the economical biopic The Courageous Mr. Penn. Clifford Evans stars as Quaker leader William Penn, who leaves the comfort of his family estate to fight for the rights of his religious brethren. Penn's crusade for spiritual freedom leads him to Read More

1941
That's the Ticket

Actors: Sid Field, Hal Walters, Betty Lynne, Gus McNaughton, Gordon McLeod

Synopsis: Although London Town is usually listed as the film debut of British music-hall favorite Sid Field, he actually made his screen bow in the 1939 "quota quickie" That's the Ticket. Field and his longtime stage foil Hal Walters play Ben and Nosey, a pair of inept hat-check boys in a posh nightclub. Read More

1940
Confidential Lady

Synopsis: In this drama, a journalist assists a young woman seeking revenge upon the newspaper baron who ruined her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1939
Come on George

Synopsis: British Writer/director Anthony Kimmins was willing to expand his range from drawing room comedy to the "low" humors of the provincial music halls. Kimmins' Come on George is an unadorned vehicle for toothy, ukelele-strumming North Country comedian George Formby. Formby plays a somewhat overage Read More

1939
Inspector Hornleigh

Actors: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Miki Hood, Wally Patch, Steven Geray

Synopsis: Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night at Eight". Hornleigh is played by Gordon Harker, while Alastair Sim assumes the comic-relief responsibilities inherent in the character of Sergeant Bingham. The "maguffin" Read More

1939
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

1939
Spy for a Day

Synopsis: In this lively British WW II comedy, the Nazis kidnap a hapless farmhand after they mistakenly identify him as one of their spies. Mayhem ensues as the farmhand escapes. En route he is nearly shot by a British spy who thinks he is an enemy agent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1939
The Loves of Madame Dubarry

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

1938
Hold My Hand

Synopsis: When a woman gets money from her guardian, Lupino, to finance her newspaper she accused him of embezzling. Luckily for all involved, everything is straightened out and Lupino marries his secretary while the ward marries Lupino's friend. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1938
Mr. Reeder in Room 13

Actors: Sally Gray

Synopsis: Crimefighting Englishman Reeder is assisted by a young man in his efforts to expose a counterfeiting gang. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1938
Almost a Gentleman

Actors: James Ellison, Helen Wood, Robert Kent, Leonard Penn, John Wray

Synopsis: Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when both are thrown in jail for vagrancy. Dan's legal problems are quickly done away with but his pretty boarder, Shirley Haddon (Helen Wood), is increasingly troubled by Dan's Read More

1938
Hey! Hey! USA!

Actors: Will Hay, Edgar Kennedy, David Burns, Fred Duprez

Synopsis: This British comedy pokes fun at Chicago gangsters as it chronicles the rivalry between to gangs battling it out aboard an ocean liner over the kidnapping of a millionaire's son. The gangs are thwarted by a porter, an ex-teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1938
13 Men and a Gun

Synopsis: When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in this World War I drama. Nobody knows which soldier informed, however. The tension mounts as the Austrian high command orders all 13 soldier executed to eliminate the Read More

1938
April Blossoms

Actors: Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter, Carl Esmond, Paul Graetz

Synopsis: April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed by legendary tenor Richard Tauber. The story concentrates on Schubert's ill-fated romance with Vicki (Jane Baxter), the daughter of a prominent Austria ballet master. Upon realizing that Vicki is Read More

1937
You Live and Learn

Actors: Glenda Farrell, Claude Hulbert, Glen Alyn, John Carol, James Stephenson

Synopsis: In this comedy, an American chorine travels to France with a low-budget revue and nearly ends up stranded there. Fortunately, a handsome Frenchman proposes to her. Believing that he is wealthy, she accepts. Unfortunately, he deceived her and now the bride must live in a ramshackle hovel with his Read More

1937
Irish for Luck

Synopsis: When Ellen O' HareMargaret Lockwood leaves her poor aunt Duchess Althene Seyler in Ireland for a singing career in England, she joins street guitarist Terry O' RyanPatric Knowles and eventually returns unsuccessful to Ireland to discover that Duchess is now rich. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1936
Where There's a Will

Actors: Will Hay

Synopsis: Will Hay plays Benjamin Stubbins, an unsuccessful and incompetent English lawyer with a tendency to tip the bottle and an inability to pay any of the considerable debts he has managed to accumulate. His wealthy family, of course, disapproves of him and has taken custody of his daughter so that she Read More

1936
Juggernaut

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

1936
Two's Company

Actors: Ned Sparks, Olive Blakeney, Mary Brian, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel fashion, with the antics of American businessman B. G. Madison (Henry Holman) and his family and associates mirrored and sometimes anticipated by the behavior of Madison's British Read More

1936
Broken Blossoms

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

1936
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

1936
The Runaway Queen

Synopsis: In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can ascend her rightful throne. She returns and takes over as soon as the revolution fails; soon she and the former leader fall in love, marry, and form a democratic monarchy. Read More

1935
Scandals of Paris

Synopsis: In this comedy, an artists paints his clothed model as if she had been dressed in very revealing garb. Later his servant sells the work to the manager of a soap company who wants to use it for advertising. The campaign is a great success and all are pleased--except the company president who sees Read More

1935
Me and Marlborough

Actors: Dame Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry Mackay, Alfred Drayton, Iris Ashley

Synopsis: In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband a shilling. He accepts it, but discovers that it is really the Queen's bounty for enlistment and that the kindly man is the local recruiting officer. The bride decides she Read More

1935
The Dictator

Actors: Clive Brook, Madeleine Carroll, Emlyn Williams, Alfred Drayton, Nicholas Hannen

Synopsis: In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high price. Struensee (Clive Brook) is a doctor from Hamburg who is called upon to treat Denmark's King Charles VII (Emlyn Williams) while the potentate visits Germany. The grateful Read More

1935
The Old Curiosity Shop

Actors: Ben Webster, Elaine Benson, Hay Petrie, Beatrix Thomson, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop. Quilp is the wicked landlord who dominates and later ruins the lives of shopkeeper Trent (Ben Webster) and his resourceful granddaughter Little Nell (Elaine Read More

1935
Drake the Pirate

Synopsis: Sir Francis Drake (Lang), first English circumnavigator of the globe, is featured in this exciting adventure with his amazing defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and a romance between the dashing sailor and a lady-in-waiting for Queen Elizabeth (Baxter). ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1935
Hyde Park Corner

Actors: Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale, Gibb McLaughlin, Eric Portman, Robert Holmes

Synopsis: Walter Hackett's popular stage farce Hyde Park Corner was smoothly transferred to the screen in 1935. Gordon Harker repeats his stage role as insouciant cockney Cheatie, a central figure in a bit of history that repeats itself. A duel to the death in 1780 turns out to have long-reaching effects Read More

1935
Bulldog Jack

Actors: Fay Wray, Jack Hulbert, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Paul Graetz

Synopsis: British musical comedy star Jack Hulbert plays an amateur sleuth who takes over for the "real" Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), who is sidelined by an injury. Hulbert's quarry is master criminal Ralph Richardson (who himself played Drummond in a 1934 film). To expedite his scheme to rob the Read More

1935
Swinging the Lead

Synopsis: A bungling band of bandits steal a new drug that alters the personalities of those who take it in this comedy. The trouble begins when the gang finds themselves pursued by rivals and the police. A riotous chase ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1934
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, O.B. Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel Read More

1934
No Funny Business

Actors: Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Jill Esmond, Gibb McLaughlin, Muriel Aked

Synopsis: Back before there was "no-fault divorce" couples wanting to split up had to provide hard evidence of spousal wrong-doing before a judge. This comedy centers on the attempts of one such couple to prove that the other is a schnook so they can be rid of each other. Separately, they hire detectives Read More

1934
Chu Chin Chow

Actors: George Robey, Fritz Kortner, Anna May Wong, John Garrick, Pearl Argyle

Synopsis: The timeworn British stage musical Chu Chin Chow had already been made into a silent picture when this talkie version made its bow in 1934. Based on Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, the film stars corpulent music-hall comedian George Robey as Ali Baba, sinister Fritz Kortner as robber captain Abu Read More

1934
The Church Mouse

Actors: Edward Chapman

Synopsis: A church mouse may be quiet, but not in this zippy British comedy from Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios. Hollywood's Laura LaPlante plays a meek, drab secretary in the employ of handsome banker Ian Hunter. She takes off her glasses, and--gosh!--she's gorgeous. Old silent-comedy hands W. Scott Read More

1934
The Iron Duke

Actors: George Arliss, Ellaline Terriss, Gladys Cooper, A.E. Matthews, Allan Aynesworth

Synopsis: The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with the usual glossovers and embellishments, of course). Arliss plays the Duke of Wellington, the brilliant and foresighted British diplomat -- warrior of the Napoleonic Era. Read More

1934
Power

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Pamela Ostrer, Frank Vosper, Gerald du Maurier, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish businessman (Conrad Veidt) who gains power and influence in the European community of Wurttemburg. He does this to help his people, who have suffered persecution under the Read More

1934
Little Friend

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

1934
Catherine the Great

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier, Irene Vanbrugh, Diana Napier

Synopsis: This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from Germany as a young woman who is to wed Grand Duke Peter, she soon becomes caught up in the court intrigue and marries the lit-fuse duke. As the Grand Duke's mother lays Read More

1934
Britannia of Billingsgate

Synopsis: In this musical, a middle-class cockney fishwife yearns to become a movie star. Her plans go swimmingly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
King of the Ritz

Synopsis: In this comedy, a popular head porter at the Paris Ritz finds trouble when he falls in love with a wealthy widow who stays there. After saving her family jewels, the porter is given the title of Duke. He also receives an ancestral home in which to live. He and the widow begin planning their Read More

1933
White Face

Synopsis: White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died several months before the film's release (his son Bryan worked on the screenplay). In typical Wallace fashion, the story concerns a master criminal who adopts a clever disguise to throw the coppers Read More

1933
The Thirteenth Candle

Synopsis: In this mystery a village squire holds a dinner party and during the festivities ends up dead. His wife is the prime suspect, but she is not the guilty party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
The Private Life of Henry VIII

Actors: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Everley Gregg

Synopsis: Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII. Alexander Korda's British super-production also put the British cinema on the map, which, until this film, received precious little respect in the international film Read More

1933
High Finance

Synopsis: High Finance, Ida Lupino's second film (and one of director George King's many low-budget quickies), is "a drama of a man overwhelmed by his own success," as the studio's publicity department put it. The man is question is Sir Grant Rayburn (Gibb McLaughlin), a man whose blinders prevent him from Read More

1933
Friday the 13th

Actors: Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Ursula Jeans, Frank Lawton, Max Miller, Emlyn Williams, Gordon Harker

Synopsis: Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge on the San Luis Rey" theme, set in motion by a London bus accident. Two passengers are killed and two injured in the crash, but the screenplay (co-written by Read More

1933
Dick Turpin

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Jane Carr, Frank Vosper, Gillian Lind, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays and films. This particular version was adapted from Rockwood, a novel by Harrison Ainsworth. Victor McLaglen stars as Turpin, and while he might be a bit thick of beam for Read More

1933
Money Means Nothing

1932
Magic Night

Actors: Jack Buchanan, Clive Currie, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: A general's son, Buchanan, calls off his engagement to countess Bland when he falls in love with flower girl Neagle who becomes an opera singer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1932
The Mistress of Atlantis

Actors: Brigitte Helm

Synopsis: In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1932
The First Mrs. Fraser

Synopsis: Set during an ugly divorce proceeding, a faithless second wife is found guilty of adultery (with a wealthy nobleman whom she wants to marry) after the wronged husband's first wife shows him irrefutable evidence. Soon after the judge's gavel falls the newly freed husband and his first bride Read More

1932
Where Is This Lady?

Actors: Marta Eggerth, Wendy Barrie, Owen Nares, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: In this musical romance, the chairman of a financially foundering bank is forced into a relationship with a supposed heiress. Unfortunately, they both love others and in their passion forget all about the bank. After the institution folds, it is turned into a popular nightclub. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

1932
The Love Contract

Actors: Winifred Shotter, Owen Nares

Synopsis: The Love Contract was based on Chauffeur Antoinette, a French stage comedy. Wealthy Antoinette (Winifred Shotter) loses all her money in the stock market, whereupon she puts her mansion up for sale. The first potential buyer turns out to be Neville Cardington (Owen Nares), the stockbroker who Read More

1932
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

1931
Der Kongress Tanzt

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Henri Garat, Otto Wallburg, Armand Bernard, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Gibb McLaughlin, Carl-Heinz Schroth

Synopsis: During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the continent (which would hold -- with some serious cracks -- for exactly 100 years) and devise a strategy for dealing with Napoleon. The ordinary Austrians chafe at the cost of Read More

1931
The W Plan

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

1931
Sally in Our Alley

Actors: Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond, Fred Groves, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: This romantic war drama takes its title from the 18th century Henry Carey song about a plucky but poor girl waiting for her love's seven years of indentured servitude to end so they can wed. Like the heroine in the song, Sally Winch (Gracie Fields), a singer in a café, is in love with a young man Read More

1931
Jealousy

Synopsis: While Mary Newland works to establish a relationship, her guardian Malcolm Keen makes sure that the relationship does not work. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1931
Potiphar's Wife

Synopsis: A spiteful, young noblewoman, married to a prominent lord attempts to ruin the life of the highly-principled chauffeur who spurned her philandering advances. This is one of Sir Laurence Olivier's film appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1931
School for Scandal

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Basil Gill, Henry Hewitt, Ian Fleming, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's stage comedy The School for Scandal made theatrical history in 1777 as the first play to use an onstage prop (a dressing screen) as an important plot device. While this proved exciting to 18th-century audiences, the effect wasn't quite the same when the Sheridan play Read More

1930
Such is the Law

Synopsis: A mother attempts to give her troubled daughter some sage advice in order to save her marriage in this domestic drama that was originally filmed as a silent and later had dialogue added to it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1930
Brat

Actors: Betty Balfour, Alf Goddard, John Stuart, Frank Albertson, Anne Grey

Synopsis: Based on the oft-filmed French play La Mome, The Brat stars pert Betty Balfour in the title role. Our orphaned heroine drifts from one disaster to another, finally landing a job as a singer in a seedy dive. A slick safecracker talks her into helping him "knock over" a joint, but Balfour changes Read More

1930
Kitty

Actors: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Dorothy Cumming, Marie Ault, Winter Hall

Synopsis: Basically a silent picture for most of its 92-minute running time, Kitty switches to sound during its last 2 1/2 reels. Handsome young aviator Alex St. George (John Stuart) is on the verge of marrying his sweetheart Kitty Greenwood (Estelle Brody) when he's called off to serve in WWI. Hoping to Read More

1929
Power over Men

Synopsis: In this British mystery, a diplomat's wife, thinking she is protecting her lover, takes the rap for her husband's murder. It is later revealed that a spy was the real culprit. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1929
White Sheik

Actors: Jameson Thomas, Warwick Ward, Lilian Hall-Davis, Clifford McLaglen, Julie Suedo

Synopsis: No relation to the later Federico Fellini picture of the same name, The White Sheik was adapted from King's Mate, a novel by author-explorer Rosita Forbes. Wandering into the Arabian foothills, English girl Rosemary Tregarthen (Lillian Hall-Davis) is kidnapped by the Riffs. She is brought before Read More

1928
The Farmer's Wife

Actors: Jameson Thomas, Lilian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Maud Gill, Gibb McLaughlin, Louise Pounds

Synopsis: This first film version of Eden Philpotts' play The Farmer's Wife was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story involves a roughhewn widowed farmer (Samuel Sweetland) in search of a new bride. Every candidate for the "title" proves insufficient, either because they fail to meet the farmer's exacting Read More

1928
The Arcadians

Actors: Ben Blue, Jeanne de Casalis, John Longden, Humberston Wright

Synopsis: This silent British comedy features at least seven vaudeville acts and was adapted from a popular stage musical that tells the tale of a shady nightclub proprietor who heads for Arcadia because he believes the jig's up and the cops are out to get him for running an illegal operation after closing Read More

1927
Poppies of Flanders

1927
Nell Gwyn

Actors: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Julie Compton, Sydney Fairbrother, Judd Green

Synopsis: While Lillian Gish achieved stardom with her dramatic emoting, her sister Dorothy made a name for herself as a saucy comedienne. Nell Gwyn was one of several felicitous collaborations between Dorothy Gish and British producer-director Herbert Wilcox. The star is of course cast as the title Read More

1926
The Only Way

Synopsis: This British-made production was based on the "celebrated" (circa 1906) stage play by Freeman Wills, which was based on the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities. Sydney Carton (Sir John Martin Harvey) is a brilliant barrister who has a drinking problem. He loves Lucy Manette (Betty Faire) Read More

1926
London

Actors: Dorothy Gish

Synopsis: One of several artistic collaborations between American actress Dorothy Gish and British producer-director Herbert Wilcox, London is set in guess which English metropolis. Slum girl Mavis Hogan (Gish) bears an astonishing resemblance to the deceased daughter of wealthy dowager Lady Arbourfield (Daisy Campbell Read More

1926
The Pointing Finger

1922
Bohemian Girl

Actors: Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello, Constance Collier, C. Aubrey Smith

Synopsis: This was the first time William Balfe's popular romantic opera was filmed. Although other operas made successful transitions to the silent screen (Carmen was one of them), this one did not have enough action to overcome the absence of its songs. Thaddeus (Ivor Novello) saves the life of a little Read More

1922
The Road to London

Synopsis: Rex Rowland (Bryant Washburn) is an American who is visiting London with his father (George Foley). When he meets Lady Emily, a distressed but pretty young girl (Joan Morgan), he decides to stay behind and help her. Emily's aunt, the Duchess (Saba Raleigh), is trying to force her into an unwanted Read More

1921

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