Dennis Wyndham

The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954)

Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the me ...

For Better, for Worse (1954)

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, ...

They Got What They Wanted (1954)

The Dog and the Diamonds (1953)

A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks. ...

Black Jack (1950)

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's closing in. ...

Oliver Twist (1948)

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his cr ...

Dancing with Crime (1947)

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade. ...

I Didn't Do It (1945)

Gormless George Trotter moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! ...

Bell-Bottom George (1944)

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot invo ...

They Met in the Dark (1943)

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down. ...

Sheepdog of the Hills (1941)

Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister. ...

The Common Touch (1941)

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel w ...

This England (1941)

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't ...

Love on the Dole (1941)

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with hu ...

Old Mother Riley's Ghosts (1941)

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention ...

Sailors Don't Care (1940)

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring. ...

Neutral Port (1940)

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy. ...

Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)

Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry ...

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before ...

Old Mother Riley, MP (1939)

Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election. ...

Convict 99 (1938)

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find ...

Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after g ...

Sensation (1936)

Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of ...

Windbag the Sailor (1936)

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who me ...

Lonely Road (1936)

Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard. ...

Midshipman Easy (1935)

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in. ...

Anne One Hundred (1933)

A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open. ...

The Face at the Window (1932)

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face ...

Who Killed Doc Robin? (1931)

A short comedy film directed by W.P. ...

Gipsy Blood (1931)

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée's classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet's opera, Gipsy Blood ...

The Man They Couldn't Arrest (1931)

An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals. ...

Let's Love and Laugh (1931)

A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer. ...