1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances. A rival tavern informs the police and they have to pay a heavy fine. However, they find the money by rescuing a boy and getting the reward.
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Musical version of the comedy, "Charley's Aunt," by Brandon Thomas. As part of a simple enough ruse, a Cambridge student poses as his aunt but his scheme goes wrong, first when someone falls for the aunt, and then when the real aunt turns up.
“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends. The hosts are delayed and so the guests remain unattended. A burglar breaks in and ensuing complications compel the girl to pose as a wife.” - BFI.
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.
Directed by Thorold Dickinson.
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
“Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.” - Steve Crook
The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.
“Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.
