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- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsEric BloreMarie LohrPeter Coke
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsMargaret LockwoodRenee HoustonLilli PalmerA runaway schoolgirl falls amongst chorus girls planning to marry into nobility.
- DirectorWalter TennysonStarsWill FyffePolly WardBruce SetonBargee Will Laurie teams up with a traveling showman and they gain success with the help of Will's adopted daughter Annie.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsWill HayGraham MoffattMoore MarriottThe mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsOtto KrugerMary MaguireWalter RillaA waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsJoan MarionRaymond MasseyElliott MasonA murder case sparks a sensationalist press frenzy as it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsNova PilbeamEdmund GwennJimmy O'DeaSet in the world of brewing, a classic tale (an Ealing speciality) of the small, friendly, family run company being threatened with closure by the nasty, modern, large organisation. Bringing in familiar farce elements such as mistaken identity, slapstick and even pie fights, the tale is resolved through the love felt by the children of the opposing brewery owners.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsGeorge FormbyPat KirkwoodJoss AmblerGeorge (George Formby) is an old stable hand and is the only one who can control a jittery racehorse.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsRobert NewtonBetty LynnePeter GawthorneDown-and-out writer finds dead man, assumes identity. Falsely accused, he uses diary and murder weapon to expose real killers while evading Scotland Yard. Truth clears him and lover, unveiling a twisted tale of misjudgment and deceit.
- DirectorRedd DavisStarsCarroll LevisAfriqueIssy BonnCarroll Levis brings newly discovered talent to the screen.
- DirectorReginald DenhamStarsDerrick De MarneyNancy BurneMarius GoringAn exciting tale of double crossing and blackmail between father and son in the horse racing world.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsArthur TracyBelle ChrystallMark DalyFactory worker leaves his job to go on the stage as a singer, then becomes destitute when the show he's in closes.
- DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- DirectorHarold HuthStarsWalter RillaKim PeacockRobert Newton
- DirectorHerbert SmithStarsSandy PowellRene RayRoy EmertonAfter being unjustly convicted, a man who is content in prison because he's away from his nagging wife, is pardoned and released. He then makes efforts to get back inside prison again.
- DirectorFrederic ZelnikStarsBen LyonSyd WalkerTerence de Marney
- DirectorRoy KellinoStarsJames MasonSylvia ColeridgeWilliam DevlinFarmer Mark Warrow lives an unhappy existence with his shrewish wife Martha. His only happiness comes from his dog. When his wife loses her temper and kills his beloved pet, Warrow snaps and murders Martha. He goes on the run and comes across a young woman in a caravan. She gives him a lift and unbeknownst to him, she recognizes him and plans to write a book called "I Met a Murderer". She unexpectedly falls for him as the police close in.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsElizabeth AllanPhilip FriendHarold AnstrutherMargaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed.
- DirectorEugene FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimMiki HoodInspector Hornleigh and his assistant Sergeant Bingham are called in to investigate a murder that involves the theft of government secrets.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsGordon HarkerAlastair SimLinden TraversIt comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's holiday." One of their fellow boarders at Balmoral Guest House, Captain Fraser of the Royal Navy, goes out one dismal night with his pet terrier and is found crushed and burned to death in his wrecked roadster at the foot of a cliff. Hornleigh and Bingham, residing at Brighthaven incognito and the last people to see Fraser, are taken into custody by the local police. It was impossible to identify the charred body and the dog is missing. Hornleigh, suspecting murder, identifies himself and goes to work on the case. He proves that the crash was neither suicide nor accident, and that the body is not Fraser, despite an identifying tattoo on the back of his hand.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsMaureen O'HaraRobert NewtonCharles LaughtonIn Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsJimmy O'DeaBetty DriverSonnie HaleAn Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show. He causes mayhem in the studio and the publicity attracts the attention of an agent who thinks he can help.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsStanley LupinoPhyllis BrooksBarbara BlairWork colleagues Potty and Minnie (Stanley Lupino and Barbara Blair) marry in secret. Then on the wedding night they are sent to give financial advice to a wealthy client who also has romantic problems.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsDave WillisPat KirkwoodGeorge MoonTwo van drivers are involved with a confidence trickster who is trying to defraud an insurance company.
- DirectorWidgey R. NewmanStarsIan FlemingHoward DouglasW.T. HodgeA lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsJohn LoderJane BaxterJack HawkinsLoder and Baxter become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsJack La RueSandra StormeBernard LeeSoho's Cotton Club is proudly run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past, Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to build.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsArthur LucanKitty McShaneGlen AlynOld Mother Riley, with the help of her daughter Kitty and Kitty's boyfriend Lieutenant Travers, thwarts a plan by enemy agents to steal important secret documents.
- DirectorOswald MitchellStarsArthur LucanKitty McShaneTorin ThatcherOld Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstStarsRalph RichardsonDiana WynyardRomney BrentA barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
- DirectorThornton FreelandWilliam K. HowardStarsMerle OberonRex HarrisonUrsula JeansYoung Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Freddie finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for earnest research are soon compromised.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsFlora RobsonRobert NewtonAnn ToddA small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".
- DirectorTim WhelanArthur B. WoodsStarsLaurence OlivierRalph RichardsonValerie HobsonA quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsClaude DampierHelen HayeJohn GarrickIn 1879 England, a solicitor helps a village blacksmith win a bicycle race on his new invention.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBasil RadfordSilvia St. ClaireThorley WaltersA British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGracie FieldsSydney HowardMorton SeltenA music hall performer manages the saloon her father bought. The clientèle includes unemployed shipyard workers who she entertains and helps.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsRobertson HareAlfred DraytonGeorge SandersAmerican (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsLeslie BanksMackenzie WardKay WalshA cadet and military captain investigate murder at military college, suspecting the victim was targeted. They race to uncover the truth and stop the killer before they strike again, amid suspicious professors and intelligence operations.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerMichael RedgraveWilfrid LawsonMild sibling rivalry between identical twin sisters Sylvina and Martina intensifies after one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart into proposing to the wrong twin.
- DirectorNorman WalkerStarsTullio CarminatiLilli PalmerJohn GarrickAn Italian officer marries an Austrian girl but their happiness is blighted by the outbreak of the First World War. She leaves him when he is forced to shoot her brother for spying, but they are reunited after the war.
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsGeoffrey TooneSally GrayDorothy DicksonA working class boy comes from a military family but he is their first to take officer training at Sandhurst. His problems with horses are put down to "funk" there but he wins the Sword of Honour by entering the Grand National.
- DirectorThorold DickinsonStarsLeslie BanksGreta GyntIan McLeanWhen a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime.
- DirectorWalter TennysonStarsAnthony HulmeC. Denier WarrenErnest Sefton1939. Drama. Directed by Walter Tennyson. Starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren & Ernest Sefton. This murder mystery poses the dilemma of a vanishing corpse.
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsBela LugosiHugh WilliamsGreta GyntInsurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsTod SlaughterJohn WarwickAubrey MallalieuSet in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsJohn ClementsRalph RichardsonC. Aubrey SmithA British Army officer resigns, burning his last-day summons to war in the Sudan. Accusing him of cowardice, his girlfriend and three friends give him white feathers. To gain redemption, he shadows his friends to save their lives.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsHugh SinclairGriffith JonesFrancis L. SullivanThe four men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsJimmy NervoTeddy KnoxBud FlanaganThe Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsJack BuchananGoogie WithersEdward Everett HortonJohn Forrest (Jack Buchanan) ace investigator for an insurance company retires, only to be promptly recalled following the theft of a priceless collection of jewels belonging to Prince Homouska (Walter Rilla).
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsLupino LaneSally GraySeymour HicksAfter Bill Snibson, a Lambeth cockney, discovers that he is a descendant from the Earl of Hareford and that he will now be residing in a Mayfair mansion with a bunch of snobbish relatives, he still holds onto his plain girlfriend Sally Smith and his Lambeth roots, even if that means facing his terrible, aristocratic aunt. And maybe the simple chaps can teach the rich how to have some fun: "Once you get down Lambeth way/ Every evening, every day/ You'll find yourself - doin' the Lambeth walk". Adapted from the highly successful West End musical which also became an early TV broadcast.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelBrian Desmond HurstMichael PowellStarsMerle OberonRalph RichardsonJune DuprezA look at the current might of the Royal Air Force. Place - Great Britain, time - two months after the start of World War ll.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsKenny BakerJohn BarclayMartyn GreenThe son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsWill FyffeKay WalshGeorge CurzonMr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
- DirectorJack RaymondStarsWill FyffeKay WalshLyn HardingJ.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the strange disappearance of 27 well-to-do people, who all vanished under similar circumstances.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsHenry KendallKathleen KellyRichard GofeA man, down on his luck, invents a business partner and build an aura around him that leads to opportunities and complications in equal measure.
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsStarsArthur MargetsonPeter CokeLesley BrookAn overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsMary MaguireGeorge SandersBarbara BlairA controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsGeorge SandersSally GrayDavid BurnsThe Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsRex HarrisonValerie HobsonJohn LoderA mystery thriller set aboard the Orient Express bound for Istanbul. A girl is blackmailed into throwing a bomb at the President of a fictional Balkan state with the intention of starting another major war.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsConrad VeidtValerie HobsonSebastian ShawA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
- DirectorPen TennysonStarsJimmy HanleyEdward RigbyMary ClareA young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
- DirectorDavid MacDonaldStarsBarry K. BarnesValerie HobsonAlastair SimA British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
- DirectorAnthony HankeyLeslie NormanStarsSebastian ShawAnna KonstamReginald Tate"Too Dangerous to Live" is a 1939 British crime film directed by Anthony Hankey and Leslie Norman and starring Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam and Reginald Tate. It was based on the novel Crime Unlimited by David Hume. A private detective goes undercover by joining a gang of burglars.
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsBruce CabotMarta LabarrTamara DesniTed Healey, a British man, is employed in a factory which makes anti-submarine patrol boats fitted with a secret torpedo device. Healy is in the pay of the German Secret Service and his wife, Freyda, constantly reproaches him for treachery to his country. He promises her as soon as he has made his fortune, he will stop his spy activities. He refuses to turn over the pictures he has taken of the blueprints to Lemnel, head of the German spies, until he has been paid 5000 Pounds. The Germans have a plan to get the pictures and dispose of Healey and he takes a bit of drastic action of his own. He kills a man of his own build, decapitates and mutilates the body and plants papers on the torso to make the Germans and the British Intelligence assume he is dead. But both discover he is still alive and set traps for him. The Brit trap is a beautiful British agent, Maria Dufreyne, who meets Healey and gains his confidence. Gaining his confidence leads to a series of embraces between Maria and Healey, and when the British agents show the pictures to Freyda she is somewhat incensed about her husband's infidelity... and the Germans are also closing in.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsGeorge FormbyGoogie WithersGus McNaughtonGeorge has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
- DirectorRoy BoultingStarsManning WhileyBarbara EverestMichael DrakeA somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsJames StephensonBetty LynneLeslie PerrinsA safecracker, just released from prison, falls in love with a young woman who wants him to go straight. He finds, however, that going straight is easier said than done.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsSyd WalkerJean GillieCyril Chamberlain
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsWill HayMoore MarriottGraham MoffattA hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsBobby HowesDiana ChurchillWylie Watson
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsGriffith JonesAnna LeeSeymour HicksAn aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
- DirectorMichel Saint-DenisStarsPeggy AshcroftMichael RedgraveEsmond KnightViola (Peggy Ashcroft) and Sebastian (Basil Langton) are look-a-like fraternal twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of Duke Orsino (Esmond Knight). Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia (Vera Lindsay), who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke is sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio (George Hayes).
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsBasil CunardStuart LathamErnest Milton
- DirectorMichael MacowanStarsGriffith JonesCatherine LaceyRobert HarrisA semi-comic account of the adventures of Marco Polo.
- StarsBill CampbellBuck DouglasTed NorthA variety show. According to Radio Times, the first episode included a set design featuring a camp-fire and log huts.
- A series of live telecasts from different locations (such as a railway junction, telephone exchange, training of pilots, canals, police horse training, etc...)
- DirectorLeslie FrenchStarsMargaretta ScottBasil Sydney
- StarsHolland BennettNewton BlickHarvey BrabanA memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, five Bad Kings, and two Genuine Dates.
- DirectorDallas BowerAntony TudorStarsAlan WheatleyOliver BurtJohn AbbottExiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.