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Vice Versa (1937)
Character: Dick Bultitude
The second adaptation, also British, was released in 1937.
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Suspect (1958)
Character: The Rev. Alfred Combermere
The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
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Meet Mr. Penny (1938)
Character: Henry Penny
There is a crisis in suburban politics because of a store magnate's plans to build a warehouse on the site of the local allotments. Mr and Mrs Penny lead the local outcry against such vandalism and Mr Penny, as usual, blunders into trouble with innocent folly.
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Two Days to Live (1940)
Character: Mr. Jackson
A hypochondriac misunderstands a telephone conversation, and believes he has only two days to live. It galvanises him into action and he finds all kinds of a new friends who free him from anxiety.
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Mistaken Identity (1942)
Character: Edward Benson
A booking clerk is dismissed after a mistake, and confused with a millionaire in London.
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Vengeance Is Mine (1949)
Character: Sammy Parsons
In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against the man responsible for his incarceration. First he hires a man to kill him and frame the traitor. Later the fellow learns that he is not sick after all. Fortunately his hit man died. Later the man he wants to avenge has a final showdown with him. A struggle ensues and the fellow kills his enemy in self-defense.
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The Weapon (1956)
Character: N/A
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
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It! (1967)
Character: The Old Rabbi
After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.
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It's All Happening (1963)
Character: Lord Sweatstone
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.
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The Nightingale (1981)
Character: Emperor
A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.
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One More Time (1970)
Character: 9th Local
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
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In the Doghouse (1962)
Character: Dr. Ribart
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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Joseph Andrews (1977)
Character: Squire Western's Clerk
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
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Headline (1943)
Character: Arthur Jones
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Once in a New Moon (1935)
Character: Rev. Benjamin Buffett
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
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School for Husbands (1937)
Character: Whittaker
A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter and Diana Cheswick fall for philanderer Leonard Drummon, and arrange to get their husbands, Geoffrey Carter and Morgan Cheswick, off to Paris so they can be free for one night of fun and frolic. The husbands are all for this as they think it will cure their wives of being infatuated with this man-about-town. And they might run into some fun in Paris. Actually, the philanderer is the one who put the idea in their heads to go away so the coast will be clear for his marauding raid party, with no intentions of curing anybody of anything.
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