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Our Betters
EnglandAlthough the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps are our equals, in morality.
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I Lived with You
EnglandIn London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
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The Fortunate Fool
EnglandA wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.
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To Brighton with Gladys
EnglandStory of nephew's tribulations in conveying penguin to wealthy uncle's seaside home.
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Three Men in a Boat
EnglandAn adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.
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Loyalties
EnglandWhile a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
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This Week of Grace
EnglandGrace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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The House of Trent
EnglandIt follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The Masquerader
EnglandWho was making love to her? Was it her husband? Or was it the masquerader he hired to double for him? — A drug-addicted member of Parliament needs to take time off and secretly pull his life together, so he gets his lookalike cousin (both played by Ronald Colman) to agree to temporarily assume his identity.
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Red Wagon
EnglandAdapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
EnglandA crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
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Looking Forward
England The 1930sYour HEART KNOWS when a picture is GREAT! — Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff.
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Turkey Time
EnglandA group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
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Facing The Music
EnglandA joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
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Two Minutes Silence
England The 1910sAnti-war tale in which several characters recollect their First World War experiences.
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Dick Turpin
England The 18th CenturyThe adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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Cleaning Up
EnglandTony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.
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Counsel's Opinion
EnglandDivorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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Follow the Lady
EnglandA Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
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Mayfair Girl
EnglandAn American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
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Doss House
EnglandAn escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses in the hopes of finding him there. A young journalist is sent by his editor to assist in the search with the aim of reporting on any interesting stories he may find among those seeking shelter that night in the local doss-house, and is eager to help with the arrest. Among the characters they encounter are a man who claims to have got away with murder, and an alcoholic former concert pianist.
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The Umbrella
EnglandTwo thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
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Letting in the Sunshine
EnglandA window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
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After Dark
EnglandIf it wasn't British, this would be in the Forgotten Horrors book. Hugh (Inspector Holt in HUMAN MONSTER) has some valuable jewels stolen. They're hidden in the back of an old clock in an antique shop. When the thieves return for them, the clock has been sold! They trace it to a creepy country estate. When Hugh and the niece of one of the crooks also show up, things get hairy.
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Lord of the Manor
EnglandTwo aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
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Number Seventeen
EnglandA great play. A great novel and a greater film. — A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
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A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
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Payment Deferred
EnglandBank clerk William Marble is desperate for money to pay his family's bills. When his wealthy nephew visits, Marble asks him for a loan, but the young man refuses. Marble decides to kill his nephew. It is a twisted path to justice after Marble is transformed by the crime he committed and the wealth he gains.
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A Bill of Divorcement
EnglandHillary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his daughter grown and about to marry; his wife divorced and also about to marry.
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Vanity Fair
EnglandAn ambitious and ruthless young woman advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.
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Illegal
EnglandThis is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
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Sherlock Holmes
EnglandMoriarty is sentenced to death, and Sherlock Holmes prepares to retire to the country and marry his girl. But Moriarty has sworn that Holmes, Lt. Col. Gore-King of Scotland Yard, and his trial judge shall all be hanged too. When Moriarty escapes and proceeds to put his threat into operation, Holmes has to postpone his retirement.
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Hearts of Humanity
EnglandGenial Irish NYC policeman Tom O'Hara is looking forward to the arrival of his wife and their young son, Shandy from Ireland. Several days before the ship is to dock, O'Hara gets a radiogram informing him that his wife has died at sea. That night a burglar breaks into the Antigue & Second Hand Shop ran by Sol Bloom, directly below O'Hara's flat. The burglar shoots O'Hara, who has rushed to his friend's aid, and, with his last breath he asks Sol to take care of Shandy. When Shandy arrives, Sol immediately makes him a member of the family, which also consists of a very mischievous motherless boy named Joey Bloom, whose pursuits consist of stealing oranges from fruit-dealer Tony, and playing hookey from school. Tom Varney, the young beat cop, is in love with Ruth Sneider, whose mother runs a Cleaning and Dyeling establishment. Ruth, however, is momentarily dazed with worthless Dave Haller.
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Lovers Courageous
EnglandA daydreaming dramatist and his beloved persevere through hard times in the hope that one of his plays will be a hit.
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But the Flesh Is Weak
EnglandA poor-but-charming father (C. Aubrey Smith) and son (Robert Montgomery) try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.
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The Phantom Fiend
EnglandAn elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
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Looking on the Bright Side
EnglandGracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
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Cynara
EnglandBack to the arms of his wife after a hectic weekend with his mistress! — A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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The Impassive Footman
EnglandA woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
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The Water Gipsies
EnglandJane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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Service for Ladies
EnglandMax Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
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The Ringer
EnglandA shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
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The Faithful Heart
England The 1890sHerbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.
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Lord Camber's Ladies
EnglandIn this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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For the Love of Mike
EnglandA useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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