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- DirectorPaul MerzbachStarsJoseph SchmidtFlorine McKinneyBilly MiltonA music student is hired to dub an indisposed tenor in a film entitled A Star fell from Heaven. He does it to become successful and be able to propose to his beloved, his housekeeper's daughter. But things won't be so easy. English version of one of the few Joseph Schmidt films, with a different ending than the German one.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsJohn GarrickDorothy BoydJoyce Bland
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsHenry KendallNancy BurneBetty Astell
- DirectorEugene FrenkeStarsAnna StenHenry WilcoxonViola KeatsAn officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Dolores Del RíoFlorence DesmondTony Seymour and his partner Gaby Ramarios are a dance team who perform an Apache specialty number, which ends with Tony, via a steel waistcoat with a scabbard arrangement, getting a knife plunged into his back, but he is unharmed since Gaby is an expert knife thrower. They are auditioning for parts in "La Nouvelle Revue" which is to open in three weeks at the Alhambra of Paris. The star is Yvette Delange, described as "a beautiful woman who could not hide with the most perfect makeup the ravages of time." She also does not like rehearsals, but perks up at the sight of Tony. Alphonse de la Riviere, once a great star but now just an assistant to the producer Morel, winces when he hears this. Later, Yvette sends Alphonse to fetch Tony to her dressing room, and informs Tony that Gaby is not invited. Tony accepts her invitation. Gaby is not pleased. Yvette is found murdered, stabbed with a knife belonging to Gaby. And Gaby is charged with murder. Tony's mission now is to clear Gaby and find the real killer. Tony's suspects include Morel, Alphonse, Dubec the concierge and possibly Ninette Duval, a member of the chorus, who has her eye on Tony. She is also the only one who knows that Tony and Gaby are married.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsRalph LynnGina MaloJack BartyArchie, a young man, inherits a stable for racing horses, and his aunt tries to talk him into converting it into a home for working girls on holiday. However, Archie is an inveterate gambler, and before he knows it he gets mixed up with two con artists and a wrestling arena that's just gone bankrupt.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsTyrell DavisGoogie WithersJames CarewLovestruck young man pretends to be a famous writer in order to impress a girl while on a cruise.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerLaurence OlivierSophie StewartA Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother with whom to contend, so he joins those in the forest.
- DirectorVictor HanburyJohn StaffordStarsConrad NagelMarta LabarrLu Ann MeredithIt is the height of the fashionable season and the world-famous singer, Anita Stella, comes to Cannes on the Riviera, where she has been engaged to perform at a Charity Ball sponsored by society leaders. John Egan, a distinguished British diplomat, traveling incognito as Baron Dupont, for reasons of State, falls in love with Stella and resolves to make her acquaintance.
- DirectorVictor HanburyStarsRene RayFred ConynghamGermaine Aussey
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsBasil SydneyEnid Stamp-TaylorBarbara GreeneA drama about a blind scientist who upon regaining his sight discovers his unfaithful wife has stolen his top secret formula for her lover.
- DirectorR.A. HopwoodStarsMeggie EatonGus ChevalierEric Woodburn
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDolly HaasEmlyn WilliamsArthur MargetsonA Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
- DirectorReginald DenhamThorold DickinsonStarsAdele DixonSally GraySam LiveseyA gramophone manufacturer's daughter loves the son of the man he once cheated.
- DirectorLeo MittlerStarsStanley LupinoSally GrayRoddy HughesA couple of out of work songwriters try to persuade a wealthy stockbroker to back them. But he turns out to be broke as they are. A series of mistaken identities, misunderstandings and general confusion as our heroes attempt to make a living as songwriters in 1930s Britain. Well paced acting with some quite amusing lines, together with some reasonably good song and dance make this amusing Ealing Studio production worth a viewing.
- DirectorAlfred ZeislerStarsMargot GrahamePaul CavanaghJoseph CawthornThings are getting too hot in New York City for "Joker" Finnigan and his gang, so they decide to move their activities to London. There, Inspector Gary of Scotland Yard is keeping a polite eye on them since "Joker" is planning a big robbery of a large department store, known as the House of a Thousand Windows. "Joker" forces an American actor named Riley to impersonate Mr. Sherwood, the store owner, as Riley and Mr. Sherwood are identical in appearance. Ronald Martin, store employee and nephew of Sherwood, is also fooled, but he is distracted by the romance he is having with another store employee, Joan.
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsBeatrix ThomsonPatric KnowlesGlennis LorimerWhen an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance ...
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsEugene PalletteBetty StockfeldStephen Champion is a correspondent in the case of Lamb v Lamb. Prosecuting council reviles him in the witness box as a Don Juan but Stephen cheerfully maintains that he is human and honest.
- DirectorJohn E. BlakeleyStarsRoy BarbourDan YoungJenny HowardDole office supervisor Dan Young is continually thwarted in his attempts to find a job for work-shy pair Barnes and Walmsley.
- DirectorReginald DenhamStarsFrances DayNelson KeysHugh Wakefield
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsRonald SquireJane BaxterAnthony BushellA forger returns to his family when he leaves jail, vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang, he keeps his word, only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try to put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort, his problems are just beginning.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsGeorge ArlissLucie MannheimGodfrey TearleThe son of a wealthy and powerful sultan is carrying on an affair with the wife of an infamous criminal. The father determines to end the affair, erase the shame of his son and bring the criminal to justice.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsMax MillerNancy O'NeilClarice MayneA newly rich couple, under the impression that Cockney racing tout Evans is a championship-winning trainer (he isn't), ask him if he can train a racehorse they have just bought. It turns out that they don't know anything about horse racing, but think that having a championship racehorse will be their ticket into "society". Evans agrees, but since he doesn't have a stable, moves the horse into the quarters he shares with two lodgers. Surprisingly, the horse has an innate talent for racing and could well be a champion. Evans enters him in the big championship race, but the day before it is to take place, the horse is stolen.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsBetty BalfourSeymour HicksOscar Asche
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsHarry RoyPrincess PearlDorothy BoydHarry Roy/Wade and his band finally find their way to success when they are hired to perform at a big hotel. There he meets by chance the Princess of Monrovia and they fall for each other. When she is ordered to return he takes a tour around the world which will eventually take the band to Monrovia.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsCicely CourtneidgeErnest TruexPercy ParsonsWhen her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.
- DirectorMilton RosmerStarsConstance BennettDouglass MontgomeryOscar HomolkaDuring the first world war a Canadian officer escapes from a prison camp and reaches Berlin where he and a streetwalker plan to reach Holland.
- DirectorRedd DavisStarsLen HarveyArchie PittBetty Ann DaviesA young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsPatric KnowlesRoscoe AtesIsla BevanA criminologist, not wanting his son to follow in his footsteps, stages the theft of a valuable painting.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsJean MuirGene GerrardHans Söhnker
- DirectorLeslie S. HiscottStarsSydney HowardMuriel AkedMiki Hood
- DirectorRoland GrilletteStarsJack MelfordAlthea HenleyGeorge SandersA swindler pretends to be a faith healer.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsBeniamino GigliJoan GardnerIvan BrandtA young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
- DirectorR.A. HopwoodStarsGus ChevalierKen DouglasMeggie EatonAn insight into the Windmill Theatre Revue.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsRalph IncePat FitzpatrickBasil GillWhen a convict discovers that his son is about to be kidnapped by his former gang members, he breaks out of jail to try to save him.
- DirectorIvar CampbellStarsMary GlynneGuy NewallEric Cowley
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsNils AstherGitta AlparJohn LoderA secret message is on a recording.A man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met, to confront her husband.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsLupe VelezAlfred RodeJerry VernoGypsy 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 designed by art director John Mead. The film was a remake of the 1935 French film Juanita.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsClaude HulbertReginald PurdellJoyce KennedyThe adventures of a group of privates and officers while on a six-hour leave in Southampton.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsRenee HoustonBillie HoustonShirley HoustonTwo sisters form a double-act after the retirement of their parents.
- DirectorMelville W. BrownStarsOwen NaresNancy O'NeilArthur MargetsonWhen a clerk finds out that his employer's son died a coward, he decides to make some money off it by blackmailing him.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsBransby WilliamsWilfred WalterCathleen NesbittA clergyman finds himself hounded out of his clergy by gossip and turns to a new purpose in life.
- DirectorH. Manning HaynesStarsCharlie NaughtonJimmy GoldEvelyn FosterCharlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold of The Crazy Gang play detectives searching a Scottish castle for a missing will. Criminals pretending to be ghosts try to foil their efforts, then some real ghosts enter.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsGeorge ArlissRomilly LungeRene RayA complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
- DirectorW.P. KellinoStarsLupino LanePhyllis ClareWallace Lupino
- DirectorMichael HankinsonStarsMary LawsonEnid Stamp-TaylorJack LambertTwo women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.
- DirectorArthur MaudeStarsNoah BeeryBessie LoveJohn Garrick
- DirectorRandall FayeStarsJack MelfordKay WalshClifford HeatherleyA formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsRalph LynnJudy GunnMorton SeltenA young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsStarsAthene SeylerMargaret LockwoodPatric KnowlesAn impoverished Irish Duchess tries to survive on her small income.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsJessie MatthewsRobert YoungSonnie HaleElaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsSeymour HicksMarie LohrHugh Wakefield
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsJimmy NervoTeddy KnoxJack BartyTwo porters come into some money and decide to open a nightclub. What they don't realize is that the money they came into belongs to a gang of counterfeiters who have mistaken them for fellow gang members and given them custody of the money. When the counterfeiters realize their mistake they go after the pair to get their "money" back.
- DirectorJack HulbertRobert StevensonStarsJack HulbertGina MaloRobertson HareJack Warrender (Jack Hulbert) bluffs his way into big business in order to promote his new invention.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsBoris KarloffJoan WyndhamArthur MargetsonAn evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsHartley PowerMargaret LockwoodNora SwinburneA jury sitting on a case are led by their foreman through an imaginative survey of how the crime, a murder, was committed.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGeorge FormbyFlorence DesmondGus McNaughtonA fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
- DirectorRedd DavisStarsJune ClydeClaude DampierBilly Milton
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsEdmund GwennCedric HardwickeVictoria HopperIn Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsRichard TauberJimmy DuranteDiana NapierIn Lucco everyone loves music, singing at any occasion, work can wait and so the state's debt. So the ruling princess bans music. Then singer Carlini returns home. Aided by a journalist and his daughter they fight the proclaim -with music.
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsMaurice ChevalierBetty StockfeldHélène RobertGaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsOtto KrugerLeonora CorbettFrancis ListerWhen Doctor Stanley Norton finds his partner, Doctor Henry Pryor, has been illegally selling drugs to addicts, he dissolves the partnership. Seeking revenge, Pryor accuses Norton of misconduct with Pryor's wife, Helen. The case is reviewed before the General Medical Council and Norton is struck off the register on the false testimony of Vera Kennedy, Pryor's mistress. The case discloses that Norton and Helen love each other and it also publicly reveals Pryor's traffic in drugs and he is sentenced to two years in prison. Helen and Norton migrate to the state of Montana and after dreary years of struggle, under another name, achieves success. He is a famous Park Avenue heart specialist when Pryor, embittered, broken and bent on revenge, gets into Norton's home by a ruse. His game is blackmail and his weapon the fact that Helen is still his lawful wife. Norton goes momentarily mad as he sees his life once more on the brink of ruin. He kills Pryor and then tells his story to his friend, the New York City district attorney, who finally declares that the shooting of Pryor was in self defense.
- DirectorJames FloodStarsClive BrookVictoria HopperNora SwinburneCommander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love, drives to the coast while drunk and interrupts some smugglers.
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsRosalyn BoulterCarl HarbordFrank BirchTwo lovelorn strangers arrange to meet each other on a cruise, but for one reason or another two different people end up taking their place.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsHelen VinsonClive BrookMary CarlisleAn abdicated king outwits two revolutionary oil magnates and stages a surprise return to his throne.
- DirectorRandall FayeStarsJack MelfordMoira LyndWally Patch
- DirectorWilfred NoyStarsDerek OldhamLorraine La FosseBruce Seton
- DirectorWalter ReischStarsMiriam HopkinsGertrude LawrenceSebastian ShawAnn Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) by Davey's wife Barbara (Gertrude Lawrence). Davey's "Othello" becomes a hit and Ann, even though fired by Skeates, becomes a fan of Davey and starts to fall for him, much to the jealousy of her boyfriend Tommy (Sir Rex Harrison). At the prospect of involvement in an adulterous triangle, Ann recoils. But despite her resolution, the characters' love lives become ever more tangled and a real-life tragedy of Othello looms.
- DirectorJohn BaxterStarsStewart RomeSam LiveseyHay Petrie
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsJames CarewCharles OliverLucille LisleExplorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsRobb WiltonMuriel AkedClay KeyesAn anti-gambling supporter has a secret passion for the greyhound racetrack..
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsD.A. Clarke-SmithSunday WilshinWilfrid Hyde-WhiteScotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
- DirectorThomas BentleyAlexander EswayWalter SummersStarsHenry HallW.H. BerryCarol GoodnerStrange film intertwining several vignettes involving Henry Hall and his BBC dance orchestra, in the studio at broadcast house, and their mishaps at children's outing, and how their music affects listeners on a luxury liner at sea, a mountaineering couple, two men trapped in a jungle cabin, and a court case where Romeo and Juliet-type neighbours fight over a loud wireless set.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsValerie HobsonLeslie PerrinsRobert CochranFor a bet a man attempts to hide his friend for a month. The police soon believe he has murdered him.
- DirectorMaclean RogersStarsWally PatchGus McNaughtonMuriel George
- DirectorJohn C. Elder
- DirectorRedd DavisStarsBetty FieldsFrank PettingellLeslie Bradley
- DirectorArthur B. WoodsStarsCharles 'Buddy' RogersMary BrianW.H. BerryA bank clerk accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.
- DirectorBrian Desmond HurstWalter SummersStarsAntoinette CellierNiall MacGinnisMaire O'Neill1921: as Irish nationalists battle with British Forces, a young girl is torn between loyalty to her brother, unbeknownst to her an IRA leader, her fiance, a police inspector, and his comrade and rival in love, a British Army captain.
- DirectorKarl GruneStarsRichard TauberSteffi DunaDiana NapierCanio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. Richard Tauber sings Pagliacci.
- DirectorTom WallsStarsTom WallsRalph LynnRobertson HareRecently retired, big-headed, Inspector Fitzpatrick (Walls) traces priceless vase to manor house owned by the ineffectual Pye (Robertson Hare)
- DirectorAdrian BrunelStarsJames MasonMarguerite AllanWally PatchJames Mason's blamed for murder, sent to jail, and escapes to find the real criminals.
- DirectorMarcel VarnelStarsFrances DayArthur RiscoeMuriel AkedA young man goes to work as a waiter in a French hotel.
- DirectorMonty BanksStarsGracie FieldsJohn LoderEnid Stamp-TaylorAn ordinary working class seamstress who is mistaken as a rich patron of the arts. When she's asked to back a new show she plays along with the charade, hoping that she can become the production's leading lady.
- DirectorPaul CaponAustin MelfordStarsWylie WatsonAnn PennBetty Ann DaviesReggie Clifford (Jack Melford) masquerades as The Radio Lover a popular crooner, though the voice is actually that of Joe Morrison (Wylie Watson) whom is not considered to have the right kind of looks.
- DirectorGeorge KingStarsJohn StuartNancy BurneMarjorie Taylor