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Peter Gawthorne

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Paid to Kill (1954)

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed. ...

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Tale of Three Women (1954)

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". ...

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Salute the Toff (1952)

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films. ...

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Paul Temple Returns (1952)

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from ...

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Death Is a Number (1951)

A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse. ...

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Soho Conspiracy (1950)

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation. ...

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High Jinks in Society (1949)

After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery. ...

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member ...

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The Case of Charles Peace (1949)

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants. ...

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This Man Is Mine (1946)

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results. ...

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Murder in Reverse? (1945)

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer. ...

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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 ...

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Much Too Shy (1942)

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them. ...

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The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24. ...

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Let the People Sing (1942)

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall. ...

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They Flew Alone (1942)

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy. ...

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I Thank You (1941)

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. ...

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Cottage to Let (1941)

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. ...

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"Pimpernel" Smith (1941)

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Arya ...

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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 ...

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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts (1941)

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

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh' series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of ...

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Gasbags (1941)

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happ ...

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Three Silent Men (1940)

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot. ...

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Crook's Tour (1940)

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contain ...

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Band Waggon (1940)

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs. ...

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They Came by Night (1940)

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist. ...

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Traitor Spy (1939)

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints. ...

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Sword of Honour (1939)

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National. ...

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unw ...

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Where's That Fire (1939)

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels. ...

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Flying Fifty-Five (1939)

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he's really good at. His name and position work against him, however, so he adopts an alias and prevails upon the charity of a drunken f ...

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Ask a Policeman (1939)

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing. ...

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Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, insi ...

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Dead Men Are Dangerous (1939)

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the murder of a maid at a near-by boarding house. ...

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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 ...

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Easy Riches (1938)

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract. ...

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Father Steps Out (1937)

The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers. ...

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Return of a Stranger (1937)

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him ...

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The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer. ...

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Jericho (1937)

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape. ...

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Gangway (1937)

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster. ...

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Under a Cloud (1937)

Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunnin ...

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Brief Ecstasy (1937)

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion... ...

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Good Morning, Boys! (1937)

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay's seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer. ...

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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 ...

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Crime Over London (1936)

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store. ...

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The Man Behind the Mask (1936)

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker. ...

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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance. ...

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Pot Luck (1936)

A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures. His investigation takes him to the home of t ...

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No Limit (1935)

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a resul ...

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Man of the Moment (1935)

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself. ...

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The Crouching Beast (1935)

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to pass his information to an American journalist. ...

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Crime Unlimited (1935)

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves. ...

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Stormy Weather (1935)

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of ...

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Me and Marlborough (1935)

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars. ...

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Something Always Happens (1934)

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a gr ...

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Dirty Work (1934)

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief. ...

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The Iron Duke (1934)

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington ...

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The Camels Are Coming (1934)

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang. ...

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My Old Dutch (1934)

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of ...

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The House of Trent (1933)

It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter. ...

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Leave It to Smith (1933)

A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles... ...

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Perfect Understanding (1933)

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman. ...

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His Lordship (1932)

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (wi ...

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The Flag Lieutenant (1932)

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice ...

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The Lodger (1932)

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings. ...

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Jack's the Boy (1932)

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his fathe ...

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C.O.D. (1932)

A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather.... ...

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Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)

Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. ...

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The Man Who Came Back (1931)

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself. ...

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