Acting
Betty Ann Davies (24 December 1910 - 14 May 1955) was a British stage and film actress.
Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind.
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name.
A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the target of unscrupulous thieves.
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
A woman conspires to steal her stepdaughter's inheritance following the mysterious death of her millionaire husband.
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.