Cyril Raymond

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.

Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So,...

An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.

Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel who says she is a close friend of Jules...

Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it...

A fop wins a socialist's daughter by earning his living as a farm-hand.

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of...

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a...

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and attempt to take them to healthier land away from...

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with...

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with...

Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family...

William Thorne, vicar of a small village, leads a modest life as a clergyman. Supporting his wife Vera and musically talented daughter Susan with his...

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain...

Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' ...

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later...

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a...

A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to...

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

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...

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs...

Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American...

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the...

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.

Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for...

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of...

The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able...

The Prime Minister's wife helps acquire shares in the Suez Canal.

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to...

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

A naval captain returns and jilts a socialite to take care of his bastard daughter.

BRIEFEST ENCOUNTERS has been quietly waiting in the wings for decades to be told. Journalist and filmmaker Joanna Crosse uncovers the hidden past of...