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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.
- 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 married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
- 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.
- After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
- A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
- A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. Their marriage, however, is threatened by a wealthy man who sets his sights on the wife.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.
- Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
- Philo Vance comes to England to investigate the murder of a millionaire.
- A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
- Vivien Leigh's debut movie about a small village putting on MacBeth when a Hollywood star arrives.
- Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
- 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 outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape.
- The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
- A brilliant chemist's plans to revolutionise the paint industry are put on hold when he is accused of theft.
- Nicholas Baumann is the manager of a Viennese toy-shop that is owned by a Mr. Brown of America. Mr. Brown comes to Vienna to inspect the toy-shop, and Nicholas invites him home to dinner, hoping that Brown will make him a partner in the business. The night of the dinner party, Nicholas' wife Clary becomes so upset with Nicholas' treatment of the family dog that she goes home to her mother. Nicholas explains the situation to his loyal secretary, Anne Weber, and convinces her to impersonate his wife for the evening. Mr. Brown immediately falls in love with Anne, though he can say nothing because he thinks she is Nicholas' wife. Clary comes home during the dinner and, realizing what is happening, pretends to be Anne. The group goes to a nightclub, where the wine gets the best of Mr. Brown. In the end, Nicholas reveals the truth, and gets both the partnership and his wife back. Anne, not to be left out, becomes Mrs. Brown.
- 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.
- Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, bohemian wife, the other, a stuffy Eton and Oxford type whose spouse is a bored but fun-loving onetime tiller girl. They all spend a week-end holiday at the playwright's cottage, where he falls in love with the jolly chorine, and his friend falls for the playwright's highbrow wife.
- 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.
- Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the ghost.
- 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.
- Insurance agents plot to identify and bring down a crime kingpin.
- A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
- A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
- 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.
- Biography of the ploughboy poet.
- 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.