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- A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
- Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
- A medium is found murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
- A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
- Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
- In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by a villainous Squire's promises of marriage, and when she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gypsy lad is blamed.
- A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.
- A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail, vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang, he keeps his word, only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try to put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort, his problems are just beginning.
- Two lovelorn strangers arrange to meet each other on a cruise, but for one reason or another two different people end up taking their place.
- This George Formby film is packed with songs in the inimitable Formby fashion (including the controversial 'Little Ukulele') and guest appearances by his wife Beryl, this is essential viewing for all fans of Formby and British musicals!
- A story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.
- An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
- Insurance agents plot to identify and bring down a crime kingpin.
- A crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds and secret formula and murder.
- An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
- When a German spy realizes that he is being followed by British agents, he gives the secret information he is carrying to his girlfriend. When he is killed, she gives the information to his superiors, and herself becomes a spy, hoping to get revenge for his death. She is then sent on several dangerous and deadly missions during World War I that cause her to question whether what she is doing is right.
- 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.
- In Lucco everyone loves music, singing at any occasion, work can wait and so the state's debt. So the ruling princess bans music. Then singer Carlini returns home. Aided by a journalist and his daughter they fight the proclaim -with music.
- The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
- A newly-married couple runs into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
- Jimmy, an ex-convict, returns home after 20 years to find his wife wealthy and having misrepresented him to their troubled children. He attempts to reconnect with his estranged family and help his offspring overcome their difficulties.
- During WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.
- A young captain, after participating in a duel, becomes the suspect in a series of killings in Epping Forest.
- A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
- A change in a will, a murder and a mysterious letter. The police look to a former cat burglar to aid them in the investigation.
- Deep in debt, the Honorable James Mallory plots to murder his cousin, Lord Rollestone, so he claim the earldom and inheritance.
- A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
- A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.
- Danny Cruff returns home years after his father was wrongly accused and hanged for murder. But he can't escape his past.
- A wandering cowboy attempts to locate a pal who has struck it rich in mining. When he gets to town, no one seems to have heard of the friend. Our hero learns the truth with the aid of a female bandit.
- The manager of a casino tries to swindle the owner by involving her family.
- Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
- Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
- A landslide traps a group of actors in a small theatre in Wales. The cashier is killed, who will be next?
- Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
- 1934. Comedy. Directed by Guy Newall and starring Edmund Gwenn, James Raglan and Hope Davy. A retired admiral who has a valuable diamond is pursued by crooks intent on getting the gem.
- When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
- A drunken toff is mistaken for a doctor and is used by the police in a number of cases. Surprisingly, the drunken antics raise a few laughs.
- A private detective pursues a gang leader who has escaped from prison, stolen some diamonds and is responsible for a number of murders.
- Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
- A clergyman finds himself hounded out of his clergy by gossip and turns to a new purpose in life.
- A young woman is swept off her feet on moving to London, but her family have to help her overcome obstacles in both love and business,
- Boy saves girl from car accident and is invited to her party.
- Two van drivers are involved with a confidence trickster who is trying to defraud an insurance company.
- A British nurse working in war-torn Shanghai has to rely on her estranged but still jealous husband, a surgeon, to save the life of the man she loves.
- Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
- The complex plot begins with the passionate desire of a doctor to found a hospital for medical research, which is thwarted by the Nazi invasion, in which he loses his notes and all his money. In later years, this leads to him being tempted for money (in order to found the hospital) to murder a patient at the instigation of the man's much younger and faithless wife ('the Temptress'), Lady Clifford. He nearly murders the man's son as well but is prevented at the last moment, and then commits suicide with an overdose of his miracle drug in order to avoid arrest. The 'temptress' who was behind it all is a classic example of the wicked, passionate, self-centred woman addicted to gambling and luxury, and at the end she is left trembling with terror at the justice which awaits her, while a happy young couple of the sub-plot look forward to their marital bliss.
- A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.