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A Cuckoo In The Nest (1933) (dvd)
A 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
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Grace Edwin
A Warm Corner - 1930
A charming comedy romance set in an Hotel full of people called Smith. Risque they say!
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Leslie Henson, Heather Thatcher, Connie Ediss, Austin Melford, Toni Bruce
Accused - 1936
Quality: 6.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Delores Del Rio, Florence Desmond, Googie Withers, Basil Sydney
Action For Slander - 1938
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott
The Amateur Gentleman - 1936
A former boxing champion is accused of stealing from royal guest staying at his Inn
Quality: 6/10
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker, Basil Sydney, Margaret Lockwood
Bulldog Jack - 1935
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert
Cash - 1933
A schemer and his daughter hatch a plan to make a lot of cash!
Quality: 6.5/10
Stars: Robert Donat, Wrendy Barrie, WEdemund Gwenn
Charing Cross Road - 1935
Musical drama
Quality: 6/10
Stars: John Mills, June Clyde, Derek Oldham, Garry Marsh, Coral Browne
Crime Unlimited - 1935
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Esmond Knight, Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, George Merritt, Wyndham Goldie
Cleaning Up - 1933
Tony Pumpford takes a job selling the 'Mop It Up' vacuum cleaner. He gets involved with a chorus girl and ends up taking part in a show
Quality: 7/10
Stars: George K.Gee, Betty Astell, Davy Burnaby
Dishonour Bright - 1936
Champion is a correspondent in the case of Lamb vs Lamb but the prosecuting council reviles him in the witness box
Quality: 6/10
Stars: Tom Walls, Betty Stockfield, George Sanders, Diana Churchill
Doctor Syn - 1937
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, George Arliss, John Loder
Everybody Dance - 1936
Quality: 9/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Ernest Truex, Kathleen Harrison
Everything Is Thunder - 1936
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, Oskar Homolka, Peggy Simpson
Falling For You - 1933
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jack Hulbert, Cecily Courtneidge, Tamara Desni, Garry Marsh, Alfred Drayton
For Valour - 1937
British comedy drama
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Veronica Rose
The Green Cockatoo - 1937
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing
Quality: 6/10, rough (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: John Mills, Rene Ray, Charles Oliver
Her First Affaire - 1932
A headstrong young girl falls for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Ida Lupino, George Curzon, Diana Napier, Roland Culver
Hindle Wakes - 1931
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars:Sybil Thorndike, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Edmund Gwenn, Mary Clare
I Met A Murderer - 1939
A Farmer has a failed marriage and when his angry wife loses her temper and kills his dog, he finally snaps
Quality: 6/10
Stars: James Mason, Sylvia Coleridge, Pamela Mason
In A Monastery Garden - 1932
A story of murder, greed and sibling rivalry in music and love
Quality: 8.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: John Stuart, Hugh Williams, Alan Napier, Gina Malo
Inspector Hornleigh - 1939
Classic British Wartime comedy, the first in the series. All three Insp Hornleigh's are available via 1st generation vhs copies
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Wally Patch
Inspector Hornleigh On Holiday - 1939
A busman's holiday The 2nd in this excellent comedy series
of course!
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Gordon Harker, AlastairSim
Inside the Room - 1935
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman
Quality: 6/10, watchable, just! (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Austin Trevor, George Hayes, Garry Marsh
In The Soup - 1936
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ralph Lynn, Judy Gunn, Morten Selten, Olive Melville, Bertha Belmore, Felix Aylmer
Jack Ahoy - 1934
A crazy song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor to perfection
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Jack Hulbert, Nancy O'Neil, Alfred Drayton
Jack Of All Trades - 1936
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jack Hulbert, Gina Malo, Robertson Hare, Mary Jerrold, Cecil Parker, Athole Stewart
Just Imagine - 1930
US produced futuristic Sci-Fi drama
Quality: 7/10
Stars: El Brendel, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Garrick
Kate Plus Ten - 1938
Kate is secretary to the criminal Lord Flamborough. Mike Pemberton is dispatched to bring them in
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Jack Hulbert, Genevieve Tobin, Noel Madison
Lady In Danger - 1934
An Englishman is assigned the task of transporting a Queen of a revolution-torn country to England incognito, where he hides her in his flat
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Cecil Parker, Anne Grey
The Lambeth Walk - 1939
When Bill Snibson, a Lambeth cockney, discovers that he is a descendant from the Earl of Hareford and that he will now be residing in a Mayfair mansion, he still holds to his roots much to the consternation of the new posh crowd
Quality: 5/10, poor picture, decent audio, French subs onscreen! (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Seymour Hicks
Late Extra - 1935
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down a killer
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: James Mason, Alastair Sim, Virginia Cherrill, Donald Wolfit, Clifford McLaglen
Lend Me Your Husband - 1935
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: John Stuart, Nora Swinburne, Nacy Burne, Annie Esmond
Little Friend - 1934
Quality: 7.5/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Matheson Lang, Lydia Sherwood, Jimmy Hanley, Cecil Parker
Lord Camber's Ladies - 1932
In this murder thriller, Lord Camber marries a singer but then decides to murder her so he can marry someone else
Quality: 5-6/10, poor (Prd A.Hitchcock)
Stars: Gerald du Maurier, Gertrude Lawrence, Benita Hume
Love From A Stranger - 1937
A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale
Love On Wheels - 1932
The Lucky Number - 1932
A footballer loses a winning lottery ticket and must regain it before time runs out on him cashing it in
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Clifford Mollison, Gordon Harker, Joan Wyndham
The Man Without A Face - 1935
A young man wrongly accused of murder is tried and sentenced to death. En route to the prison there is a major train crash and his guards are killed along with an anonymous traveller in the same compartment. He swaps identities
Quality: 5/10, very poor, collectors only
Stars: Carol Coombe, Cyril Chosack, Moore Marriott
Man Of the Moment - 1935
A girl who is infatuated with her boss tries to commit suicide when she finds out he's involved with another
girl
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Margaret Lockwood, Claude Hulbert
Midnight at Madame Tussaud's - 1936
Explorer 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
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: James Carew, Charles Oliver, Lucille Lisle, William Hartnell
Melody and Romance - 1937
Quality: 7/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Jane Carr, Alastair Sim, Garry Marsh
Me and Marlborough - 1935
In 1709, Kit Ross disguises herself as a man and joins the army to search for her press-ganged husband
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Tom Walls, Barry MacKay
The Midshipmaid - 1932
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up and complications ensue
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Jessie Matthews, A.W. Baskcomb, Claud Allister, Basil Sydney, John Mills, Nigel Bruce
Millions - 1937
Financier Otto Forbes threatens to disinherit his feckless son Jimmy, who then tries to pass off an aspiring composer's work as his own
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Richard Hearne, Queenie Leonard, Jane Carr
Mr Reeder In Room 13 - 1938
Quality: 6/10 (poor video/region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray, Gibb McLaughlin, Malcolm Keen, Leslie Perrins
Murder By Rope - 1936
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Sunday Wilshin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Constance Godridge
Nobody Home - 1938
The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security
Quality: 8/10 (aka Return of the Frog)
Stars: Gordon Harker, Hartley Power, Rene Ray
Non-Stop New York - 1937
A girl finds herself in danger onboard a transatlantic flight
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L Sullivan
On The Night Of The Fire - 1939
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Mary Clare, Dave Crowley, Henry Oscar
The Passing Of The Third Floor Back - 1935
The tenants in an old boarding house are terrorised by their landlord until oneday, a stranger comes to their rescue
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Mary Clare
Passing Shadows - 1934
A British mystery film made at Beaconsfield Studios, directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Quality: 6/10
Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Barry MacKay, Aileen Marson, Wally Patch
The Price Of Folly - 1937
Mystery drama
Quality: 6/10, soft picture, the usual challenges!
Stars: Colin Keith-Johnston, Leonora Corbett, Leslie Perrins, Judy Kelly, Wally Patch, The Trocadero Girls
The Private Secretary - 1935
A timid clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his debtors
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Judy Gunn, Edward Everett Horton, Alastair Sim
Prison Without Bars - 1938
An inmate falls in love with the in-house doctor at a brutal girls reform school
Quality: 5/10 (poor print, adjust your contrast)
Stars: Corinne Luchaire, Edna Best, Barry K. Barnes,Martita Hunt
Public Nuisance No. 1 - 1936
Troublesome Arthur Riscois sent by his Uncle to work as a Waiter in a French hotel, in this jolly Comedy Musical
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe, Muriel Aked
The Riverside Murder - 1935
A gentleman is shot dead in his study. The police come in to solve the crime. A young detective weaves his way through danger and an intricate set of clues to catch the killer
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn, Zoe Davis, Alastair Sim
The Rebel's Son - 1938
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Roger Livesey, Patricia Roc, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell
Something Always Happens - 1934
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers
Quality: 8.5/10, occasional logo
Stars: Ian Hunter, Nancy O'Neil, Peter Gawthorne
Dir: Michael Powell