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The Door in the Wall (1956)
Character: Henry Redmond
A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.
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The Queen's Guards (1961)
Character: N/A
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
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It Started in Paradise (1952)
Character: Arthur Turner
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Cape Forlorn (1931)
Character: Gordon Kingsley
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
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His House in Order (1928)
Character: Hilary Jesson
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
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Don't Blame the Stork (1954)
Character: Sir George Redway
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
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The Silver Spoon (1934)
Character: Capt Watts-Wynyard
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
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The Valley of Ghosts (1930)
Character: Andrew McLeod
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Dream Comes True (1935)
Character: Theseus (archive footage) (uncredited)
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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Marry Me (1932)
Character: Robert Hart
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
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Something Always Happens (1934)
Character: Peter Middleton
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
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Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
Character: Lewis Murray
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
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No Escape (1934)
Character: Jim Brandon
“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Breakdowns of 1937 (1937)
Character: Self
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Character: Lloyd Rogers (archive footage) (uncredited)
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Not For Sale (1924)
Character: Martin Bering
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
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The Church Mouse (1934)
Character: Johnathan Steele
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
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Confessions (1925)
Character: Charles Oddy
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.
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Lazybones (1935)
Character: Sir Reginald Ford
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
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A Yank at Eton (1942)
Character: Roger Carlton
An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
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Smilin' Through (1941)
Character: Reverend Owen Harding
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
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Downhill (1927)
Character: Archie
When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
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Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Character: Austin Lancing
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.
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Jalna (1935)
Character: Renny Whiteoaks
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
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I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Character: Keith Lockridge
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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Escape! (1930)
Character: William Brown, the Plainclothesman
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
Character: Steven V. Land
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
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Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Character: Bert C. Matthews
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
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Bitter Sweet (1940)
Character: Lord Shayne
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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White Cradle Inn (1947)
Character: Anton
This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't.
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Broadway Serenade (1939)
Character: Larry Bryant
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Character: Theseus
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
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The Man from Toronto (1933)
Character: Fergus Wimbush
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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Sally in Our Alley (1931)
Character: George Miles
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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Another Dawn (1937)
Character: Colonel John Wister
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
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The Ring (1927)
Character: Bob Corby
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
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Edward, My Son (1949)
Character: Doctor Larry Woodhope
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
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Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
Character: Clive Fisher
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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Billy the Kid (1941)
Character: Eric Keating
Billy "The Kid" Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who postpones his life of crime when he is befriended and hired by peaceful cattle rancher Eric Keating. When Keating is killed by a rival, Billy seeks revenge, even if it means opposing his old friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Character: Dr. John Lanyon
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
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The White Unicorn (1947)
Character: Philip Templar
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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The Bulldog Breed (1960)
Character: Admiral Sir Bryanston Blyth
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
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Death at Broadcasting House (1934)
Character: Detective Inspector Gregory
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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Always Goodbye (1938)
Character: Phillip Marshall
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Character: Captain Woodhouse - H.M.S. Ajax
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
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Bedelia (1946)
Character: Charlie Carrington
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961)
Character: Dr. Robert Blood, Peter's Father
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
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Maisie (1939)
Character: Clifford 'Cliff' Ames
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
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Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Character: Geoffrey Collis
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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North West Frontier (1959)
Character: Sir John Wyndham
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
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Stolen Holiday (1937)
Character: Anthony Wayne
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Bad Little Angel (1939)
Character: Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Appointment in London (1953)
Character: Logan
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
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Rockets Galore (1958)
Character: Air Commodore Watchorn
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
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The Little Princess (1939)
Character: Captain Crewe
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Guns of Darkness (1962)
Character: Dr. Swann
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
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The Phantom Light (1935)
Character: Jim Pearce
A series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.
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Kali Yug, il mistero del tempio indiano (1963)
Character: Robert Talbot
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted assistant, escape with the complicity of Amrita
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Gallant Sons (1940)
Character: Natural Davis
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Character: Jay Pierce
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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Forever and a Day (1943)
Character: Dexter Pomfret
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
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Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta (1963)
Character: Robert Talbot
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
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The Water Gipsies (1932)
Character: Fred Green
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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The White Angel (1936)
Character: Fuller
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
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Syncopation (1929)
Character: Alexander Winston
Benny and Flo are a husband-and-wife dance team starring in a new Broadway revue. When the show quickly flops, the two are forced to look for other employment and eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous in the process. But their relationship is tested when Flo attracts the attentions of a sophisticated millionaire playboy...
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Dulcy (1940)
Character: Gordon Daly
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
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The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Character: Smitty
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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It Comes Up Love (1943)
Character: Tom Peabody
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
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The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961)
Character: Colonel Jackson
A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.
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Orders Is Orders (1933)
Character: Capt. Harper
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
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The Sisters (1938)
Character: William Benson
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Come Live with Me (1941)
Character: Barton Kendrick
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Confession (1937)
Character: Leonide Kirow
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
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52nd Street (1937)
Character: Rufus Rondell
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
Character: Dr. John Watson
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
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Easy Virtue (1928)
Character: The Plaintiff's Counsel
Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
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Eight O'Clock Walk (1954)
Character: Geoffrey Tanner
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
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The Night of the Party (1934)
Character: Guy Kennion
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
Character: Geoffrey D. 'Geoff' Sherwood
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
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Call It a Day (1937)
Character: Roger Hilton
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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To Mary - with Love (1936)
Character: Bill Hallam
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
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Strange Cargo (1940)
Character: Cambreau
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Character: King Richard the Lion-Heart
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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Tower of London (1939)
Character: King Edward IV
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
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