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A Cuckoo In The Nest - 1933
A crowded inn means that a couple have to share a room for the night. One problem is that they are both married, to other people, the other 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
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
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
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
For Valour - 1937
British comedy drama
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Veronica Rose
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
The Great Barrier - 1937
A British made adventure about the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Quality: 8/10, UK
Stars: Richard Arlen, Antoinette Cellier, Barry MacKay, Lilli Palmer
Dir: Milton Rosmer
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
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
Love On Wheels - 1932
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
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
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
Mr Reeder In Room 13 - 1938
Crime thriller with a twisty plot, derived from an Edgar Wallace story
Quality: 5/10 (poor video/soft picture)
Stars: Peter Murray-Hill, Sally Gray, Gibb McLaughlin, Malcolm Keen, Leslie Perrins
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
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
Oh, Daddy - 1935
A member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London
Quality: 5-6/10 poor, UK
Stars: Leslie Henson, Frances Day, Robertson Hare
Dir: Graham Cutts/Austin Melford
Old Vienna - 1932
An Austrian prince hatches a plan to keep his rival, the Russian czar, busy by keeping him surrounded by beautiful women and away from the negotiating table
Quality: poor audio/picture 5/10, tinted green, Germany
Stars: Lilian Harvey, Conrad Veidt, Henri Garat
Murder In The Red Barn - 1936 (UK Crime)
Squire William Corder wins the charms of an innocent country maiden, despite the attention she receives from Carlos, a gypsy. Corder seduces Maria and, after she becomes pregnant by him, he murders her in the red barn before burying her body there
Quality: 7/10, UK (aka 'Maria Marten')
Stars: Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, Eric Portman
Over The Moon - 1937
Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. She is in love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis and suggests they marry, then finds out she has inherited a fortune
Quality: 8/10, UK, Colourised
Stars: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Carl Jaffe, Herbert Lomas
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
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
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
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
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
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 Phantom Ship - 1935
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one
Quality: 7/10, UK
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson
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
Road House - 1934
A barmaid is in love with the owner of the inn where she works, a young and handsome member of the gentry, Archie. He's lost a lot of money on a race, and two acquaintances are about to get him to sign the inn over to them when Belle convinces her co-worker Sam, buy it instead
Quality: 6/10, UK
Stars: Gordon Harker, Violet Loraine, Aileen Marson
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
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
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: 8.5/10
Stars: Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn, Zoe Davis, Alastair Sim
Things Are Looking Up - 1935
A jolly slapsticker. A scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Max Miller, Mary Lawson, Judy Kelly, William Gargan
Reserved For Ladies - 1932
Falling in love with the aristocratic Sylvia Robertson, Max, posing as a European prince, enlists the aid of an amiable Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favor
Quality: 5/10, poor, UK
Stars: Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Benita Hume
This Man Is News - 1938
A jewel thief is set free after turning King's evidence
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Barry K Barnes, Garry Marsh
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
Sporting Love - 1936
Comedy about the financial struggles of two gambing Brothers
Quality: 5-6/10 only 46 mins,cobbled together from two print sources!
Stars: Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff, Eda Peel, Lu Ann Meredith