Acting
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
'Compilation of turns from Pathetones and Pictorials, compered by comedian Ronald Frankau.' (British Pathé)
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.
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 without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
An inventor shows off his new machine which can relay any event or portray any person at the touch of a button.
A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.
