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- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
- Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.
- Charters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital information for Britain's enemies.
- A secretary suspects that her employer's three elderly sisters are plotting to kill him after he announces he'll no longer finance their philanthropic endeavors.
- During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
- An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
- Two children are evacuated during World War Two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
- On his father's death, an 18-year-old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realizing that the other directors want to keep him in the dark, he starts to ask questions and he soon goes undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
- William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- Ghosts are condemned to haunt a house until it is visited by a reigning monarch,
- The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
- A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.
- A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
- Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
- A visiting American woman is shown how the people of an English village responded to invasions and threats through four historical vignettes.
- The arrival in a Yorkshire fishing village of the Lunns with a modern fishing boat is deeply resented by the Fosdycks. Eventually hostilities are overcome and the families join forces to get a modern deep sea fishing boat.
- A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
- A charwoman comes upon a plot to steal the invention of a man who lives in a haunted house.
- An escaped World War 2 Nazi doctor impersonates a murdered English doctor so he can work on a vaccination to protect Germans in their planned germ warfare.
- Old mother Riley's daughter kitty marries an aristocrat. Old mother Riley then becomes a servant in the aristocrats household.
- 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 film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
- An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a servicemen's home.
- Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
- A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
- During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates and the revue ultimately played London's Hippodrome. The acceptance of the audience was based more on wartime London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from overseas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a mixture of fact and fiction of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only partly filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the revue as seen at the Hippodrome.
- Dead Men Tell No Tales is a 1938 British thriller film directed by David MacDonald and starring Emlyn Williams, Sara Seegar and Hugh Williams. It is based on the 1935 novel The Norwich Victims by Francis Beeding. The film was made at Welwyn Studios. (Wikipedia)
- The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers are old friends gathered to celebrate their silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
- Mr. J.G. Reeder is called in by the Bank of England to investigate a gang of forgers. Reeder enlists the aid of a younger man, Capt. Johnnie Gray, to infiltrate the gang by going undercover in Dartmoor jail.
- Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for an (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in the U.S.A. in 1940, Europe was at war.
- A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
- 1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Richard Hearne, Ronald Shiner & Hermione Gingold. In debt to gamblers Rodney (Richard Hearne) agrees to pass as a butler at a gambling party.
- A pilot loses his memory after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
- A farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
- Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
- Mrs. Riley is tricked out of her licence for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
- A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
- Old Mother Riley does her bit for the war effort by going undercover to foil a gang of black marketeers.
- A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.
- A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. But, he always needs to find the criminal!
- Mother Riley tries to convince her daughter that her current boyfriend is up to no good.
- A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
- Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
- Comedy set in opposing ends of a pantomime horse. The 'head' is dating a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.