Frank Atkinson

Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened....

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been...

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks...

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is...

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined...

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the...

The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition...

A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.

Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But...

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in...

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San...

Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a...

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is...

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...

A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence.

In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and...

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she...

When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement...

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's...

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the...

A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst...

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public...

After Smoke wins the Blake ranch in a poker game, Blake commits suicide and Smoke deeds the ranch to Blake’s young daughter. But the Sheriff is...

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true...

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He...

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

British comedy film directed by Max Mack

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan....

A shady financier tries to acquire a new chemical

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...

A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their...

Divorcee Laura marries Paul but his employer is also enamored with Laura and sends Paul on a business trip during which a murder is committed and he...

A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command...

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a...

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune...

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy...

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves,...

After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform...

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox and...