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- Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has taken its toll and if Sir Douglas does not take off for several months he stands a good chance of dying soon. Back in his chambers, a solicitor named Pope was waiting to see him. Pope's firm handled most of the important legal cases. Pope was there to ask Sir Douglas to take up the defense of his client, Leslie Locke. Sir Douglas's mind went back some twenty years when he was struggling for recognition, and he had been in love with a very beautiful girl ---Laura Hyde. Sir Douglas had never spoken of his love, however, because he was very poor, and wanted to be quite certain, before he married, that he would be able to give his wife every luxury. Another admirer of Laura at the time was a well-to-do, volatile and impetuous young artist who, before the plodding Rolls knew what was happening, had swept Laura off her feet and married her. The artist's name was Leslie Locke. Sir Douglas had never gotten over his love for Laura and had never taken any interest in any other woman since, and he and Laura had remained the closest of friends. Pope's client, charged with murder of a model he had been seeing, and going on trial for his life, was the man who had married Rolls' only-love. Sir Douglas, knowing it may kill him, takes the case, and fights with the last of his strength to save the life of the husband of the woman he has always loved. And, possibly, have to implicate Laura in the proceedings.
- The story of a struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate whose love furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
- Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
- 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 debt and keeps his new enterprise a secret from his wife,Laura. But Laura has a secret of her own. The persuasive Count Castelli has sold her a bill of goods which turns out to be the "Coconut Beach," a notorious hot-spot in town. Their daughter, Peggy, is kept in the dark by both parents but her boyfriend, Jack Kent, stumbles across the father's secret and uses it as a wedge to get himself a job as the Master of Ceremonies at the "Silver Spoon." Both clubs are next-door to each other and there isn't enough patronage for both clubs. Something has to give.
- A musical-comedy about an elderly vaudevillian who inherits the title of "lord" and proceeds to invite some old pals to share in the fun. A woman he once promised marriage to appears on the scene and soon tries to sue the entertainer for breach of contract.
- A gypsy settlement in a small kingdom is on land believed to contain oil reserves. The kingdom's prime minister plots to overthrow the king--whose mistress is a beautiful gypsy girl--and seize power, and the oil fields, for himself.
- A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
- Tommy Deacon inherits a fortune which is concealed in a bust - unfortunately the bust is in a house that he has sold and is now a girls school. So he has to find a way to gain entry into the school and search for the bust.
- British Pathé newsreel chronicling the fateful last day of the German airship Hindenburg, as it flew over New York City on May 6, 1937, before exploding into flames that night in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people.
- A criminal mastermind robs gold, frames his gang, keeps loot. Freed gang searches for ex-boss for revenge and their share.
- A businessman's attempts to save a failing newspaper are the excuse for some comic antics, romances involving three different blondes, and four musical numbers.
- Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils.
- An attractive Viennese circus performer has romances with three different men.
- Secret information that might foil an enemy invasion is entrusted to a Naval commander alone.
- A nerdy scientist comes up with a formula that turns him into a strongman.
- The story of the rivalry between a jewelry salesman and a woman doing business in Europe and South America.
- A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as "poison pen letters".
- A murder case sparks a sensationalist press frenzy as it becomes clear that the killer only strikes when there is a full moon.
- A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
- Soho's Cotton Club is proudly run by American Steve Marco. So when double-crossing Joe Lane threatened to tell the police of Steve's past, Joe had to be murdered. Steve was not going to have anyone destroy what had taken years to build.
- Londoners prepare for war.
- John Forrest (Jack Buchanan) ace investigator for an insurance company retires, only to be promptly recalled following the theft of a priceless collection of jewels belonging to Prince Homouska (Walter Rilla).
- A waiter in Moscow, pre-1914, leads his daughter into thinking he is prosperous businessman.
- Work colleagues Potty and Minnie (Stanley Lupino and Barbara Blair) marry in secret. Then on the wedding night they are sent to give financial advice to a wealthy client who also has romantic problems.
- William Brown has a good-intentioned yet naughty nature that challenges his family's patience. He and his friends live various adventures weedening a garden, pursuing a secret agent, looking for a baby sister and deactivating a bomb.
- An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
- Mixture of re-enactments and documentary footage relates the story of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis in Germany and the danger they pose to Europe and the rest of the world.
- The armaments production programme is being sabotaged by a gang of Germans. A few arrests are made but the destruction of a vital plant goes on. Test Pilot 'Bulldog' Bill Watson plunges headlong into the mystery.
- Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who has been convinced by McGill that Bradley is responsible for her brother's death. In reality McGill has murdered her brother, which Bradley is trying to prove.
- Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon. Then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
- If the murderer of wealthy widow Mme.Harlowe (Louise Hampton) had not relied on information obtained from a book in her library, the old lady might have lived for years, as chronic invalids often do. The killer relied on the false information that surare, the deadly native poison, leaves no traces after death. And so, Inspector Hanaud, the eminent Paris detective, arrived in Dijon to solve the mystery of the Maison Grenelle. He finds Betty Harlowe (Diana Churchill), the victim's niece, suspected by the police, and Ann Upcott (Belle Chrystall), the dead woman's companion, in a state of semi-hysteria. And there is also an anonymous letter writer known as The Scourge. For his clues, Hanaud has a scrap of charred paper, an anonymous letter and a pen-holder that is not a pen-holder at all. From these, he builds a case against the guilty one, until he is certain enough to risk the life of Betty to make the killer confess.
- "She Couldn't Say No" is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney, and Googie Withers. It was based on a play, "Funny Face" by Paul Girard Smith and Fred Thompson. A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
- A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
- A young man's mother wants him to marry a wealthy heiress, but the man falls in love with the girl's sister.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- The homicidal maniac,who is strangling young women in London's West Side, is being sought by both Scotland Yard and a young reporter/writer, Penny Sutton. She had found one of the murder victims and had set out to get the story for both her newspaper, and for the thriller yarns she writes. The trail leads to an eccentric millionaire living under an assumed name. Penny uncovers enough evidence to convict the man, but a new clue turns up in time to save him and unmask the real killer.
- A naval officer attempts to juggle a visit from his wife's family, and a visit from an ex-girlfriend, with farcical results.
- A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
- The mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
- When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
- During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently visits to "get away from it all", abduct Churchill with the help of Nazi agents and sympathizers already in England and take him back to Germany.
- Family tensions arise after a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.