British Films 1937 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2

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1. Lost on the Western Front (1937)

73 min | Drama, War

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley ... See full summary »

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Paul Cavanagh, Marcelle Chantal, Garry Marsh, Olga Lindo

2. Action for Slander (1937)

83 min | Drama

A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.

Directors: Tim Whelan, Victor Saville | Stars: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Arthur Margetson

Votes: 92

3. Against the Tide (1937)

67 min | Drama

When Jim marries Mary, they live with Jim's mother and the two women quarrel, but a tragedy at sea brings them together.

Director: Alex Bryce | Stars: Robert Cochran, Cathleen Nesbitt, Linden Travers, Jimmy Mageean

4. All That Glitters (1937)

72 min | Crime, Drama

A skinflint bank manger undergoes a transformation after taking medicine for his dyspepsia.

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Jack Hobbs, Moira Lynd, Aubrey Mallalieu, Kay Walsh

5. Auld Lang Syne (1937)

72 min | Biography, Drama

The life story of Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Director: James A. FitzPatrick | Stars: Andrew Cruickshank, Christine Adrian, Richard Ross, Marian Spencer

Votes: 23

7. Busman's Holiday (1937)

64 min | Comedy

Busmen mistaken for burglars catch culprits.

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Wally Patch, Gus McNaughton, Muriel George, H.F. Maltby

8. Danger in Paris (1937)

73 min | Thriller

Cafe Colette is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen and Sally Gray. It was also released under the alternative title Danger in Paris. The film was made at Wembley Studios.

Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Paul Cavanagh, Greta Nissen, Sally Gray, Bruce Seton

10. Calling All Stars (1937)

75 min | Comedy, Music

There is no plot it is basically a review featuring the bands, stars and acts listed.

Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Bert Ambrose, Carroll Gibbons, Evelyn Dall, Max Bacon

Votes: 13

13. Catch As Catch Can (1937)

71 min | Action, Crime

A story of smuggling and jewel thieves on board an ocean liner.

Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: James Mason, Viki Dobson, Eddie Pola, Finlay Currie

Votes: 18

15. Clothes and the Woman (1937)

70 min | Comedy, Romance

A runaway schoolgirl is taken in by a wealthy woman who instructs her how to attract men.

Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Tucker McGuire, Constance Collier, George E. Stone

21. Dinner at the Ritz (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

The daughter of a murdered financier is working as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks those among her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent

Votes: 307

22. Doctor Syn (1937)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Adventure

When customs and excise men arrive at the village of Dymchurch in Kent, they uncover an intricate smuggling network being coordinated by the local parson, Dr Syn. Unknown to all but a few ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: George Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, John Loder, Roy Emerton

Votes: 303

23. Don't Get Me Wrong (1937)

80 min | Comedy

A fairground barker tries to interest a millionaire in a new substitute for petrol.

Directors: Reginald Purdell, Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Max Miller, Olive Blakeney, George E. Stone, Glen Alyn

Votes: 22

24. Double Exposures (1937)

67 min | Crime

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.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: David Langton, Julien Mitchell, Ruby Miller, Brian Buchel

Votes: 67

25. Dreaming Lips (1937)

94 min | Drama

Tragic story of the wife of a violin player in a famous orchestra, who falls in love with her husband's friend, and finally drowns herself.

Directors: Paul Czinner, Lee Garmes | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Joyce Bland

Votes: 35

29. Father Steps Out (1937)

64 min | Comedy

Joe Hardcastle has a popular cheese business that is thriving, his employees love him, and he and his wife are able to live comfortably. However, when his daughter Helen comes home from a ... See full summary »

Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: George Carney, Dinah Sheridan, Bruce Seton, Vivienne Chatterton

Votes: 18

31. Fine Feathers (1937)

Musical

A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Renee Houston, Donald Stewart, Francis L. Sullivan, Robb Wilton

33. For Valour (1937)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

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.

Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Veronica Rose, Joan Marion

Votes: 37

36. It's a Grand Old World (1937)

71 min

An unemployed man wins £16,000 on the football pools.

Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Sandy Powell, Gina Malo, Cyril Ritchard, Frank Pettingell

Votes: 8

38. When Thief Meets Thief (1937)

Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A London cat burglar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) falls for the girlfriend (Valerie Hobson) of a stockbroker (Alan Hale) who used to be his partner.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Valerie Hobson, Alan Hale, Edward Rigby

Votes: 151

40. Lancashire Luck (1937)

74 min | Comedy

A working-class father's life changes when he wins a fortune on a football pools lottery. He moves with his daughter to the high-class part of town where he buys a small tea shop. They ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Cass | Stars: George Carney, Wendy Hiller, Muriel George, Nigel Stock

Votes: 10

41. Leave It to Me (1937)

71 min | Comedy

Policeman Sandy Powell rescues a girl from a bullying stepfather and is called upon to impersonate a harem queen, a wrestler, a ballroom dancer, a Chinese mandarin and a private eye.

Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Sandy Powell, Iris March, Franklin Dyall, Garry Marsh

42. Backstage (1937)

80 min | Drama, Musical

A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom. Musical. Initial release: June 25, 1937

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy, Jane Winton, Ellis Jeffreys

Votes: 33

43. Little Miss Somebody (1937)

78 min | Drama

I believe this was a film starring Binki Stuart who was a Shirley Temple look-a-like. Binki would have been about five at the time., and was a poor substitute for Shirley.

Director: Walter Tennyson | Stars: Binkie Stuart, John Longden, Kathleen Kelly, Jane Carr

44. Girl in the Street (1937)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Jacqueline, a London gutter-snipe is "befriended" by Marius Andreani, a diplomat known for being a rounder with the ladies, but he goes pure with Jacqueline, resolved to help her to the ... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati, Robert Douglas, Horace Hodges

Votes: 39

45. Lucky Jade (1937)

69 min | Comedy, Crime

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.

Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Betty Ann Davies, John Warwick, Derek Gorst, Claire Arnold

Votes: 20

46. Melody and Romance (1937)

71 min | Comedy, Musical

Hugh Hawkins wants to be a song writer and gets an audition with the BBC. At the audition he meets Margaret, younger sister of famous singer Kay Williams, who wants to be a performer too.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Jane Carr, Alastair Sim

Votes: 22

49. Millions (1936)

70 min | Comedy

Financier Otto Forbes threatens to disinherit his feckless son Jimmy, who then tries to pass off an aspiring composer's work as his own.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Gordon Harker, Frank Pettingell, Richard Hearne, Stuart Robertson

Votes: 33

50. Missing, Believed Married (1937)

66 min | Comedy

An heiress discovers during her engagement that the man she is about to marry is a fortune-hunting fraud. She runs off, and during a street scuffle, she gets a blow to her head which leaves... See full summary »

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Wally Patch, Julian Vedey, Hazel Terry, Emilio Cargher

53. You're in the Army Now (1937)

87 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Two soldier friends vie for the affections of the Sergeant Major's daughter, against a background of military pomp and adventure.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Grace Bradley

Votes: 168

54. Torpedoed (1937)

66 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant. Rebels, led by Diego De Costa, the trusted "Minister of the ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Robert Douglas, Richard Cromwell, Hazel Terry, H.B. Warner

Votes: 48

55. Paradise for Two (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Music

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend when seen in a car being given a lift by a chauffeur. She persuades her manager to act as her wealthy friend.

Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Patricia Ellis, Arthur Riscoe, Googie Withers

Votes: 22

57. Pearls Bring Tears (1937)

63 min | Drama, Comedy

A businessman borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to go missing.

Director: H. Manning Haynes | Stars: John Stuart, Dorothy Boyd, Eve Gray, Mark Stone

Votes: 19

59. Rhythm Racketeer (1937)

84 min | Crime, Musical

Gangster Nap Connors tries to break into the London underworld and finds he has a double in Harry Grant. Forced to return to America by a feared hit-man, Nap uses his double to give him the perfect alibi for a jewel heist on board ship.

Director: James Seymour | Stars: Harry Roy, Princess Pearl, James Carew, Norma Varden

Votes: 32

60. Remember When (1939)

68 min | Comedy

In 1879 England, a solicitor helps a village blacksmith win a bicycle race on his new invention.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Claude Dampier, Helen Haye, John Garrick, Kathleen Gibson

Votes: 29

61. Said O'Reilly to McNab (1937)

80 min | Comedy

A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O'Reilly. Then one day O'Reilly's father shows up for a "visit"--... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Mahoney, Will Fyffe, Ellis Drake, Jean Winstanley

Votes: 40

63. School for Husbands (1937)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance

A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter (Diana Churchill) and Diana Cheswick (June Clyde) fall for philanderer Leonard Drummond (Sir Rex Harrison), and arrange to get their husbands, ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Rex Harrison, Diana Churchill, June Clyde, Henry Kendall

Votes: 30

64. Sing as You Swing (1937)

82 min | Musical, Romance

Radio stars of the 1930s putting on a show

Director: Redd Davis | Stars: Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer, Claude Dampier, Billie Carlyle

Votes: 46

67. Splinters in the Air (1937)

71 min | Comedy

Crazy inventor, mistaken for his twin brother, finds himself in the RAF.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Sydney Howard, Richard Hearne, Stuart Robertson, Ralph Reader

69. Strange Experiment (1937)

74 min | Drama

A group of doctors perform an experimental brain surgery on a hardened career criminal, with hopes that it will result in his becoming a more law-abiding citizen. This low budget British "... See full summary »

Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Donald Gray, Ann Wemyss, Mary Newcomb, Ronald Ward

71. The Academy Decides (1937)

50 min | Drama

A group of street buskers form an academy of protection to warn when police are around.

Director: John Baxter | Stars: Henry Oscar, April Vivian, John Oxford, Wensley Russell

73. The Avenging Hand (1936)

64 min | Crime, Drama

A Chicago gangster is pleasantly surprised by violent crime in London. When he discovers crooks are after a mysterious package, and murder an innocent match-seller for it, he turns detective.

Directors: Frank Richardson, Victor Hanbury | Stars: Noah Beery, Kathleen Kelly, Louis Borel, Charles Oliver

Votes: 124

74. The Black Tulip (1937)

57 min | Drama

This film is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas Pere and set in Holland in 1672. The wealthy but naïve Cornelius Van Baerle spends his time cultivating tulips, ignorant of the fact that ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Bryce | Stars: Patrick Waddington, Ann Soreen, Campbell Gullan, James Alexander Chapman

Votes: 22

75. The Cavalier of the Streets (1937)

70 min

A struggling writer is so deep in debt that he believes he'll never be able to get out of it, and is being hounded by creditors. One night during a storm he comes upon the body of a man who... See full summary »

Director: Harold French | Stars: Margaret Vyner, Patrick Barr, Carl Harbord, James Craven

78. The Fatal Hour (1937)

66 min | Drama

A secret agent poses as a wastrel to save his uncle's anti-gas formula from spies.

Director: George Pearson | Stars: Edward Rigby, Moira Reed, Moore Marriott, Dick Hunter

80. The Frog (1937)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Police Captain Gordon and Sergeant Elk set out to put an end to the activities of a criminal mastermind who calls himself The Frog. They encounter blackmail, murder, arson and robbery along... See full summary »

Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Noah Beery, Jack Hawkins, Richard Ainley, Vivian Gaye

Votes: 39

81. Silent Barriers (1937)

Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Directors: Milton Rosmer, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Richard Arlen, Barry MacKay, Antoinette Cellier, Roy Emerton

Votes: 106

82. The Green Cockatoo (1937)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: John Mills, Rene Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver

Votes: 314

84. The Last Adventurers (1937)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A skipper's daughter falls for a humble fisherman rescued by her father.

Director: Roy Kellino | Stars: Niall MacGinnis, Roy Emerton, Linden Travers, Peter Gawthorne

Votes: 32

85. The Last Curtain (1937)

67 min | Crime

The director of a local theatre secretly fences stolen goods for a gang of jewel thieves.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Campbell Gullan, Greta Gynt, Kenne Duncan, Sara Seegar

Votes: 42

87. The Lilac Domino (1937)

Approved | 65 min | Musical, Romance

A rich girl tries to reform the prince of a Ruritanian land, who has a bad habit of gambling, in this operetta.

Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Michael Bartlett, June Knight, S.Z. Sakall, Athene Seyler

Votes: 17

89. The Mill on the Floss (1936)

95 min | Drama

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Frank Lawton, Victoria Hopper, Griffith Jones, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Votes: 130

91. Mutiny on the Elsinore (1937)

Approved | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Lockwood | Stars: Paul Lukas, Lyn Harding, Kathleen Kelly, Clifford Evans

Votes: 61

94. The Reverse Be My Lot (1937)

68 min | Drama

A struggling actress (Marjorie Corbett) agrees to trial 'flu serum and falls in love with doctor's son.

Director: Raymond Stross | Stars: Ian Fleming, Marjorie Corbett, Mickey Brantford, Georgie Harris

95. The Robber Symphony (1936)

136 min | Musical

A whimsical spectacle of a little boy's adventures with a gang of bandits who are terrorizing a small southern European town.

Director: Friedrich Feher | Stars: Hans Feher, Françoise Rosay, Magda Sonja, George Graves

Votes: 119

97. Murder on Diamond Row (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector (Edmund Lowe) hunts a killer diamond fence--The Squeaker (Sebastian Shaw).

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni

Votes: 267

98. The Street Singer (1936)

86 min | Musical

A famous musician is mistaken for a street singer.

Director: Jean de Marguenat | Stars: Arthur Tracy, Arthur Riscoe, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Wakefield

Votes: 20

99. Wife of General Ling (1937)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama

John Fenton, a British secret-service agent in China, is given the assignment of learning how smugglers go undetected while delivering guns into the interior for General Ling, a ruthless ... See full summary »

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Griffith Jones, Valéry Inkijinoff, Adrianne Renn, Alan Napier

Votes: 36



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