Acting
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
George Gommery enjoys slipping up to town to see some little actress, and never suspects that his wife can play the same game just as well as he can. Or at least, he never suspects until he tells his wife that her lover is engaged to the woman whom he has been entertaining in London.
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
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A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
British agents operate in Paris during the Second World War.
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
The Viennese bride of a Scottish peer is driven away by suspicion and unfriendliness from his family. Famous, she buys the estate and her husband returns to be reconciled with her and the son of whom he never knew.
Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent to offer to write up Jill's story.....
“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.
A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
