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- King Charles sees actress Nell perform and they become close, as he favors her over the Duchess. Nell serves Charles devotedly though she and the Duchess clash. Despite the King's fondness, as an actress she's barred from the royal circle.
- Two lovelorn strangers arrange to meet each other on a cruise, but for one reason or another two different people end up taking their place.
- Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
- A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
- Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
- A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
- A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
- After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
- Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.
- In Vienna just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Captain Maximilian Scheltoff falls in love with poor flower-shop girl Viki. Unfortunately, his father, General Scheltoff, has arranged his marriage to Countess Helga through the Emperor. Maximilian and Viki plan to elope the night of Helga's ball, but his father intercedes, sending Maximilian to the front lines when he learns of his son's wedding plans. Maximilian sends Viki a letter proclaiming his undying love, but the letter is never delivered. Instead, Viki receives a letter from the general, telling her that Maximilian is going to fulfill his family honor and marry Helga. When Maximilian does not arrive at their predetermined meeting place, Viki thinks the worse, believing that he was too cowardly to tell her the truth. After World War I ends, Viki becomes a stage star, while Maximilian is reduced to being a simple shoe salesman. Maximilian goes to Viki and proclaims his love once more, but she, still hurt by his desertion for the countess, spurs him. Maximilian, with a song from his heart, manages to win her back, and the couple is finally reunited.
- The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
- A British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses, he finds himself stranded in America with no money and many bills. By chance, Robert meets the old family butler, Eccles, who is now working in New York for the wealthy Beach-Howard family. Eccles helps Roberts to take up employment as a footman in the Beach-Howard household. Robert becomes romantically involved with the young niece, Hilda Beach-Howard. She begins to suspect his true identity. Robert's elder brother arrives in New York to find out what has happened to his sibling. The bank that holds Robert's money reopens, and Robert proposes marriage to Hilda whilst serving dinner. She accepts his proposal.
- A picturesque village is threatened with redevelopment by a speculative builder, leading to widespread protest. In the end the builder agrees to settle the future of the village on the result of a cricket match.
- An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
- An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape.
- The Blue Danube is a 1932 British romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Brigitte Helm, Joseph Schildkraut and Desmond Jeans. Its plot, based on a short story by Doris Zinkeisen, concerns a Hungarian gypsy who leaves his girlfriend for a countess, but soon begins to suffer heartache. The film was made in both English and German-language versions.
- A working-class father's life changes when he wins a fortune on a football pools lottery. He moves with his daughter to the high-class part of town where he buys a small tea shop. They enjoy the high life, and his daughter falls in love with a handsome aristocrat. His snooty mother is appalled by the cross-class romance but eventually all is resolved.
- A young woman falls in love with a young orchestra conductor in Vienna, and they marry. Their marriage, however, is threatened by a wealthy man who sets his sights on the wife.
- Philo Vance comes to England to investigate the murder of a millionaire.
- Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
- Crooks in South America smuggle arms on an English cargo vessel to revolutionaries, but are exposed by a young girl, who later marries the captain's son.
- Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.
- A young woman is swept off her feet on moving to London, but her family have to help her overcome obstacles in both love and business,
- Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
- Vivien Leigh's debut movie about a small village putting on MacBeth when a Hollywood star arrives.
- In Sicily, a blinded revolutionary escapes execution when his Manx half-brother takes his place.
- An heiress discovers during her engagement that the man she is about to marry is a fortune-hunting fraud. She runs off, and during a street scuffle, she gets a blow to her head which leaves her with amnesia. She is taken in by Flatiron Stubbs (Wally Patch) and Mario Moroni (Julian Vedey), a pair of street vendors. The fraudulent Count turns up while searching for her, and convinces her to go to Paris with him. However, Flatiron and Mario follow and rescue her from the Count.
- Musical comedy, based on the story of the founding of the 'Splinters' concert party in France 1915, by soldiers serving in the British Army on the Western Front.
- An influential actor and impresario discovers and makes a star of a Russian girl, falls in love with her and tricks her into marriage. She, however, falls in love with his friend and desires to leave the marriage.
- A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
- Two business rivals' planned merger includes a marriage between their son and niece, but the young couple run off with different partners.
- Actress Mary ( Belle Chrystall) marries Victor (Fred Conyngham) an impoverished young composer. As he becomes more successful the marriage comes under strain.
- A young crook meets a lady in the same business as himself, and finds she is more than a match for him.
- A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
- Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie (Blanche Sweet) goes to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde (Cecil Humphreys) to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of Sir Percival's scheming in order to get her fortune.
- On her mother's death a circus girl flees to her aunt, pursued by her drunken father.
- A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
- For reasons of his own a sea captain pays one of his sailors to marry a singer, but not long after the marriage the two find they are actually in love.