Cast: Dennis Wyndham

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Sidney Morgan · Sara Allgood · John Laurie · Dave Morris

Synopsis Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock. Set during the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, the film focuses on the trials and tribulations of a typical Dublin tenement...

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Hughie Green · Margaret Lockwood · Harry Tate · Robert Adams

Synopsis Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well (some would say too keen) but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him...

Direction John Baxter

Cast Arthur Askey · Glenn Melvyn · Sid James · Shani Wallis

Synopsis A Yorkshire publican comes into an inheritance, but when he goes to Canada to claim it, he runs into trouble.

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Will Hay · Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · Googie Withers

Synopsis A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only...

Direction Brian Desmond Hurst

Cast John Lodge · Diana Churchill · Francis Lister · Joan Marion

Direction Donald Taylor

Cast Joss Ambler · Clifford Buckton · Charles Carson · Mavis Clair

Synopsis A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.

Direction James Flood

Cast Clive Brook · Victoria Hopper · Nora Swinburne · Malcolm Keen

Synopsis Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love, drives to the coast while drunk and interrupts some smugglers.

Direction Oswald Mitchell

Cast Tod Slaughter · Henry Oscar · Jenny Lynn · Winifred Melville

Synopsis Late 1940s British horror drama inspired by the true story of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare who became serial killers in Edinburgh in the 1800s. In order to make money William Hart (Tod Slaughter) and Mr. Moore (Henry Oscar) begin digging...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast Will Hay · Moore Marriott · Graham Moffatt · Sebastian Smith

Synopsis With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang...

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast George Formby · Anne Firth · Reginald Purdell · Peter Murray-Hill

Synopsis Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three times, finally "joins" when, during an air raid, he is...

Direction Arthur Robison

Cast Lya De Putti · Lars Hanson · Warwick Ward · Carl Harbord

Synopsis In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.

Direction Julien Duvivier · José Antonio Nieves Conde

Cast George Sanders · Herbert Marshall · Patricia Roc · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis Bold and attractive, Mike Alexander is an American who smuggles drugs across the Spanish Mediterranean. Ingrid Dekker is in love with him while the double-crossing Emily Birk tries to exploit him, which is also the case of Nikarescu, a shady...

Direction David MacDonald

Cast Emlyn Williams · John Clements · Constance Cummings · Frank Pettingell

Synopsis This British- National-Anglo American production reinforces the theme that whoever assails the land of Britain only succeeds in uniting and cementing the landowner, the peasantry and the working classes of the land. Using the threat of invasion (by the Nazis)this...