In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley is a circus ringmaster...
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1941
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Maxwell Archer, Detective was adapted from Hugh Clevely's novel Meet Maxwell Archer. John Loder plays the famed ficitional...
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1939
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British Writer/director Anthony Kimmins was willing to expand his range from drawing room comedy to the "low" humors of the...
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1939
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1938
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In this sentimental drama, a young girl is taken away from her beloved mother and given to her cruel and evil aunt. The girl...
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1938
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This musical features many popular ballads from the 1880s as it tells the tale of a cabaret singer and her boozy husband who...
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1938
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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Based on an Edgar Wallace novel, this is an involved story of the consequences within the underworld of a big-time diamond...
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1937
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In this comedy, a young man must give up smokin' and drinkin' if he is to get his large inheritance. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1937
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1937
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In this happy musical, two business partners find themselves in all sorts of romantic trouble. One of them is planning to...
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1937
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This is the first entry in what became a long-running British comedy series. It is the story of a wealthy match maker who...
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1937
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In this British comedy, an aspiring actress who works as a housemaid decides to throw a big soiree at her employer's home...
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1937
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A broken string of pearls provides the basis for this comedy. The pearls are lost by a woman who had borrowed the necklace...
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1937
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In this comedy, a bumbling factory worker at a record manufacturing plant accidentally destroys an irreplaceable master...
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1937
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Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel...
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1936
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British stage and screen favorite Stanley Lupino (Ida's dad) wrote and starred in this relentlessly upbeat musical comedy....
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1936
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1936
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1936
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Popular British music-hall and radio entertainer Harry Roy is the central figure in Everything is Rhythm. A spoof of...
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1936
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1936
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In this remake of the 1931 film, an informer is plagued by the three ex-cons he was responsible for sending to prison. They...
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1936
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A mid-1930s precursor to the 1956 Broadway musical Bells are Ringing, Give Her a Ring concerns a group of melodic telephone...
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1936
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Based upon The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle, The Man Behind the Mask was the last film Michael Powell made...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced...
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1935
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Dandy Dick stars the magnificent Will Hay as supercilious village vicar Rev. Richard Jedd, presently anxious to raise enough...
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1935
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In this British musical, a bankrupt composer assumes the identity of an aristocrat to sneak in to a high-class soiree. While...
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1935
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1935
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In this musical comedy, a young man visiting the ultra-modern estate of his aunt falls in love with the old-fashioned,...
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1934
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In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
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1934
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In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the...
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1934
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In this comedy, two vagabonds living alongside the River Thames are mistaken for genteel gentlemen and end up attending a...
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1934
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This musical quota-quickie was produced by Twickenham Films, the British "sister firm" of Universal Pictures. Mary Clare...
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1934
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In this actioner, a married pair of stunt pilots encounter turbulence when the husband becomes afraid of flying after a...
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1933
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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...
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1933
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In this comedy, a naive young woman works as a servant for a home sublet to thieves. When she and the window cleaner...
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1933
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In this crime comedy, based on a popular British play, a young man poses as a poet to protect his auntie's jewels from...
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1933
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This by-the-numbers quota quickie at least has the advantage of brevity. Clifford Mollison stars as Lord Victor Wilby, whose...
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1933
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The Bermondsey Kid was one of a steady flow of "quota quickies" emanating from Britain's Twickenham Studios under a...
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1933
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In this comedy, two crooks are finally freed from prison. As they prepare to leave, they receive the possessions they came...
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1933
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1933
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In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His...
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1932
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This comic farce tells of Clarke attempting to impress his future in-laws through the use of a borrowed apartment with...
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1932
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In this comedy, two sisters abruptly abandon the oysterbar they co-own when they win the Irish Sweepstakes. One of the two...
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1932
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In this drama, a wealthy social worker locates an unemployed trombone player and cons him into running for mayor. Of course...
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1932
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In this comedy, a worker at a loan company is charged with embezzlement and imprisoned. While in the pen, he meets another...
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1932
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In this comedy, a domineering mother has already picked out a wealthy husband for her daughter. Unfortunately, the girl...
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1932
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Also known as Trapped in a Submarine, the British Men Like These was inspired by the real-life Poseidon submarine disaster. A...
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1931
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No relation to the 1929 American actioner of the same name, the British Flying Fool features Henry Kendall as airborne...
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1931
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The Hate Ship starts out as a fancy yacht, presided over by wealthy scoundrel Vernon Wolfe (Jameson Thomas). On board the...
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1930
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A literal adaptation of the popular stage play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, specialists both in maritime comedies,...
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1930
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When a booking agent decides to go after the female in a boy-girl music hall team, the act is almost broken up. ~ Rovi...
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1930
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In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A...
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1930
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There were so many anti-war films in the early 1930s that a reviewer for the British Suspense complained that the genre was...
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Corporal Brown
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1930
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In this sentimental drama, the son of a Jewish pushcart vendor abandons his roots as he builds himself a successful new life...
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1929
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In this British drama, set in Ireland, a devoted young groom rescues a brutalized racehorse, gains his trust, and rides him...
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1929
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1929
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Boris Karloff played a red herring in this the final silent serial from chapter play specialist Mascot, who reportedly spared...
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1929
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Though conceived and executed as a silent film, The Circus Kid was outfitted with a sound prolog and music and sound-effects...
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1928
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1928
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If a silent film had the word "fangs" in the title, it usually meant that the film starred a dog (or sometimes, that the film...
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Rufe Anderson
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1928
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A young woman grows up innocent of the fact that her gentlemanly father is the head of a notorious ring of thieves. This...
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1928
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That creaky old Ralph Spence stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla was given the first of its four screen treatments in 1927....
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1927
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Priscilla Dean made a name for herself in the silent era by playing lady crooks for Universal. By the mid-'20s, however, her...
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1927
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The Romantic Rogue is handsome Reed Howes, the scion of a disreputable family of peddlers. In the tradition of his forebears,...
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1927
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Thanks to constant exposure in excerpt form in scores of silent-movie compilations, Play Safe is the best-known of the...
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1927
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Love ain't all that funny, but this 5-reel comedy elicited a chuckle or two from 1927 audiences. Alberta Vaughn plays a...
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1927
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That indefatigable old trouper Hobart Bosworth topped the cast of the Columbia "B"-plus feature The Blood Ship. The villain...
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1927
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Dapper, diminutive screen comedian Monty Banks stars in Keep Smiling. The inventor of an automatically inflatable life...
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1925
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Dog star Strongheart, perhaps the most popular rival of canine hero Rin-Tin-Tin, heads the cast of North Star. The "human"...
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1925
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