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51. The Middle Watch (1930)
72 min | Comedy
Nautical comedy in which several girls aboard a boat have to be concealed, the farce features typical scenes of characters running in and out of rooms.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Owen Nares, Jacqueline Logan, Jack Raine, Dodo Watts
52. Give Her a Ring (1934)
79 min | Musical
A telephonist falls for her employer.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Clifford Mollison, Wendy Barrie, Zelma O'Neal, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 18
53. The Song You Gave Me (1934)
86 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Victor Varconi, Frederick Lloyd, Claude Hulbert
Votes: 49
54. Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
70 min | Comedy
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Dolly Haas, Cyril Maude, Esmond Knight, Irene Vanbrugh
Votes: 47
55. Father's Doing Fine (1952)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A domestic comedy based on the play "Little Lambs Eat Ivy", dealing with the adventures of an impoverished upper-class family consisting of a widowed mother and her four daughters.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Heather Thatcher, Diane Hart, Virginia McKenna, Mary Germaine
Votes: 126
56. For the Love of Mike (1932)
85 min | Drama
Bobby, secretary to a wealthy man, falls for his niece Mike and with the help of an ex-collegian friend will try to help her get her legal rights back by robbing his employer's safe, in this vaudevillian British musical comedy.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter, Jimmy Godden, Viola Tree
Votes: 38
57. Red Wagon (1933)
107 min | Drama
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Greta Nissen, Don Alvarado
Votes: 24
58. Strip! Strip! Hooray!!! or (Fun with the Sunbathers) (1932)
36 min | Short, Comedy
Ken Douglas wants to marry Betty Norman, but her father says not unless he earns at least 2,000 pounds a year. Douglas, a reporter, gets an assignment to get a story on Sunville where sun worshipers less clothes than perhaps they should.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Ken Douglas, Betty Norton, Albert E. Raynor, Muriel White
Votes: 16
59. The Dancing Years (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, operetta star, ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 81
60. The Woman Decides (I) (1931)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Miles Mander | Stars: Owen Nares, Adrianne Allen, David Hawthorne, C.M. Hallard
61. Die Bräutigamswitwe (1931)
100 min | Comedy
The night before his wedding George gets drunk and marries a chorus girl. Her boyfriend appears, they fight and are believed dead, so she is now "the bridegroom's widow" (die ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Georg Alexander, Fritz Kampers, Hans Hermann Schaufuß
Votes: 13
62. This Was Paris (1942)
Approved | 77 min | War, Drama
On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Ben Lyon, Griffith Jones, Robert Morley
Votes: 100
63. Old Mother Riley at Home (1945)
76 min | Comedy
Mother Riley tries to convince her daughter that her current boyfriend is up to no good.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Freddie Forbes, Richard George
Votes: 35
64. Sensation (1936)
54 min | Crime, Drama
Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who devotion to his job is messing up his private life. Despite warnings ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: John Lodge, Margaret Vyner, Francis Lister, Joan Marion
Votes: 38
65. Let Me Explain, Dear (1933)
75 min | Comedy
A man tries to fake an accident in order to claim insurance money, but things soon go awry.
Directors: Gene Gerrard, Frank Miller | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Viola Lyel, Claude Hulbert, Jane Carr
Votes: 40
66. Double Exposure (1954)
61 min | Crime, Thriller
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Director: John Gilling | Stars: John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 81
67. Delayed Action (1954)
58 min | Mystery
A destitute, suicidal man is offered a contract for 18 months to act as a front for an unscrupulous businessman, with his life being forfeit. He carries out his agreement, also writing a ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton
Votes: 114
68. Regal Cavalcade (1935)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Brenon, W.P. Kellino, Norman Lee, Walter Summers, Thomas Bentley, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Marie Lohr, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Hale, J.H. Roberts
Votes: 27
69. Loyal Heart (1946)
80 min | Drama
John Armstrong, an English hill-farmer has a dispute over debts with "Burton", a neighbouring farmer. Burton envies Armstrong's sheepdog, Fleet, and requests the dog as settlement of debts.... See full summary »
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Fleet, Harry Welchman, Percy Marmont, Beckett Bould
Votes: 40
70. Children of Chance (1930)
75 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, Dorothy Minto, John Stuart
Votes: 36
71. The Pride of the Force (1933)
75 min | Comedy
Comedy from 1933 providing an early film role for Leslie Fuller, seeing the popular, rubber faced actor and entertainer once touted as Elstrees own Clark Gable playing identical twins with ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Patrick Aherne, Nan Bates, Faith Bennett, King Curtis
Votes: 21
72. Lucky Girl (1932)
75 min | Musical
Gene Gerrard stars as the king of a tiny European country who has a night out at the home of an English duke, falling in love with his daughter after being mistaken for a jewel thief.
Directors: Gene Gerrard, Frank Miller | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Molly Lamont, Gus McNaughton, Spencer Trevor
Votes: 26
73. The American Prisoner (1929)
76 min | Drama
An American prisoner of war escapes and saves a squire's daughter.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Carl Brisson, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil Barry, Carl Harbord
Votes: 10
74. The Black Hand Gang (1930)
63 min | Comedy
Wee Georgie Wood leads his gang of ragamuffins through a series of comic vignettes, including disrupting a well-to-do children's party, fighting a rival gang and thwarting a robbery.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Wee Georgie Wood, Dolly Harmer, Violet Young, Lionel Hoare
Votes: 29
75. The Feather Bed (1933)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Director: J. Bertram Fryer | Stars: Jeanne De Casalis, Gus McNaughton
76. The Man Who Won (1932)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Henry Kendall, Heather Angel, Nora Swinburne, Sam Livesey
77. Be Careful, Mr. Smith (1935)
72 min | Comedy
Director: Max Mack | Stars: Bobbie Comber, Bertha Belmore, Cecil Ramage, C. Denier Warren
78. Gypsy Melody (1936)
77 min | Comedy, Musical
Gypsy Melody is a 1936 British musical comedy film directed by Edmond T. Gréville and starring Lupe Velez, Alfred Rode and Jerry Verno. It was made at Elstree Studios. The sets were ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Lupe Velez, Alfred Rode, Jerry Verno, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 22
79. Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical
The exclusive Boydell family, members of the "400" set, suddenly became owners of two nightclubs; the father, Henry Boydell, comes into one, "The Silver Spoon," as the payment of a business... See full summary »
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, June Clyde, Claire Luce, Fred Emney
Votes: 34
80.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
At Night All Cats Are Gray
(1954)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A French model asks for Colonel March's help just hours before she's found murdered.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Christopher Lee, Fanny Rowe
Votes: 95
81.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Death and the Other Monkey
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A biologist is convinced that his test monkey was not only stolen but replaced.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Percy Marmont, Gudrun Ure
Votes: 57
82.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Death in Inner Space
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
At an isolated château outside Paris, a scientist insists he's received radio waves emanating from the planet Mars.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Karel Stepanek, Peter Illing, Rosalie Crutchley
Votes: 64
83.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Murder Is Permanent
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The owner of a beauty salon is found stabbed to death.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Elspet Gray, Margaret Halstan
Votes: 55
84.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Passage at Arms
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A French fencing team are involved in a London murder case.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Eric Pohlmann, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 52
85.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Present Tense
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
March's niece witnesses her husband die in a plane crash. Soon after she begins to complain she can hear his voice in the night and others in the house become convinced her husband has returned as a ghost.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Mary Parker, Phil Brown
Votes: 92
86.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
Error at Daybreak
(1956)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A shady businessman collapses on an oceanside jetty, the apparent victim of a heart attack, but a vacationing March discovers blood and a needle near the body.
Director: Phil Brown | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Robert Brown, Patricia Marmont
Votes: 76
87.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Abominable Snowman
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Members of a Britsh mountain climbing club are seemingly terrorized by an abominable snow man after film of tracks belonging to the creature are released. March struggles to accept the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Doris Nolan, Ivan Craig
Votes: 92
88.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Kidnapped Poodle
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March is called in to investigate the theft of a valuable diamond as well as a poodle. As he continues his investigation he begins to think both incidents may be connected.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Doris Nolan, Michael Shepley
Votes: 70
89.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Lively Ghost
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A phony spiritualist believes she's truly summoned a real ghost.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Virginia Downing, Genine Graham
Votes: 51
90.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Case of the Misguided Missal
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 15th century prayer volume disappears from a sealed casket inside the locked safe belonging to an Oxford Don.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Jane Griffiths, John Arnatt
Votes: 51
91.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Deadly Gift
(1956)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pretty barmaid receives an unusual Christmas gift, a music box from a thief dead for ten years.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Sandra Dorne, George Coulouris
Votes: 55
92.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Devil Sells His Soul
(1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March uses hypnosis to crack the case of a stabbing murder.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Patrick Barr, Ann Hanslip
Votes: 63
93.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Headless Hat
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March is on holidays in France when he meets an old friend from the French police who tells him of a murder at the docks. The French suspect he was a smuggler who had English ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Betty Paul, Marne Maitland
Votes: 65
94.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Invisible Knife
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
March must solve the mystery of how a man could be stabbed to death by an invisible knife.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Hubert Gregg, Henryetta Edwards
Votes: 69
95.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Missing Link
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scotland Yard is baffled by the attempted theft of a museum's prized exhibit of the skull of 'Damascus Man.'
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Stuart Lindsell, Helen Cherry
Votes: 54
96.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Second Mona Lisa
(1955)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
'The Second Mona Lisa,' painted six months after the first, is targeted by rival collectors.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Alan Wheatley, Eric Pohlmann, Robert Ayres
Votes: 63
97.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Silent Vow
(1956)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March and Inspector Goron are present in a café when a customer dies from poisoned wine.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Zena Marshall, Anton Diffring
Votes: 59
98.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Silver Curtain
(1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
How did Davos end up with a knife in his back? The murder happened behind the "silver curtain" of spray from a fountain. He was alone with Jerry Winton in a dead end alley, but Winton didn't do it. Can Col. March unravel the mystery?
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Eric Pohlmann, Anton Diffring, Christine Pollon
Votes: 67
99.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Sorcerer
(1955)
26 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychologist is found dead in a seemingly sealed room. Inspector March needs to decide who had the most reason to kill him, and how did they accomplish the task.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Phil Brown, Gerard Heinz
Votes: 116
100.
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
Episode:
The Stolen Crime
(1956)
27 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man demands to be arrested for murdering his wealthy wife, whose death is attributed to natural causes.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Glyn Houston, Josephine Douglas
Votes: 59