On Approval 1930
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
'Suburban beautician almost elopes with rich client's husband.' (British Film Catalogue)
A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.