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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.
- 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.
- A newly-married couple runs into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
- 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.
- Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
- 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.
- During WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.
- 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 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.
- 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 young captain, after participating in a duel, becomes the suspect in a series of killings in Epping Forest.
- Danny Cruff returns home years after his father was wrongly accused and hanged for murder. But he can't escape his past.
- A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
- 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 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.
- A story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.
- 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.
- An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
- An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
- A crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds and secret formula and murder.
- 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 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.
- Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- During the Boer War a private saves the life of an officer.Years later in the Great War the private 's son is an established gentleman while the officer's son is a crook.
- The manager of a casino tries to swindle the owner by involving her family.
- Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
- A private detective pursues a gang leader who has escaped from prison, stolen some diamonds and is responsible for a number of murders.
- 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,
- A clergyman finds himself hounded out of his clergy by gossip and turns to a new purpose in life.
- 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.
- Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
- A medium is found murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
- 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.
- 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.
- The owner of a pearl bed falls in love with a bitter young girl who had been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous ex-boyfriend.
- Two van drivers are involved with a confidence trickster who is trying to defraud an insurance company.
- Deep in debt, the Honorable James Mallory plots to murder his cousin, Lord Rollestone, so he claim the earldom and inheritance.
- 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.
- When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
- Betsy, a housemaid and aspiring actress, throws a party in her employer's house while he's away. Guests include agents and producers; but her employer's priceless jade collection also becomes the target of unscrupulous thieves.
- Boy saves girl from car accident and is invited to her party.
- Insurance agents plot to identify and bring down a crime kingpin.
- 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.
- A framed captain breaks jail and saves his ex-fiancée from blackmail.