With British & Dominions Film Corporation (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Brewster's Millions (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in ... See full summary »
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Lili Damita, Nancy O'Neil, Sydney Fairbrother
Votes: 76
2. Nell Gwyn (1934)
Approved | 85 min | History
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne De Casalis, Muriel George
Votes: 122
3. The Speckled Band (1931)
Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Lyn Harding, Raymond Massey, Angela Baddeley, Nancy Price
Votes: 290
4. Gentleman's Agreement (1935)
71 min | Drama
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Frederick Peisley, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Holles, David Horne
Votes: 169
5. Bitter Sweet (1933)
93 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. Their marriage, however, is threatened by a wealthy man who sets his sights on the wife.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Miles Mander, Clifford Heatherley
Votes: 73
6. Escape Me Never (1935)
95 min | Drama
A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
Director: Paul Czinner | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Leon Quartermaine
Votes: 148
7. The Blue Danube (1932)
72 min | Romance
The Blue Danube is a 1932 British romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Brigitte Helm, Joseph Schildkraut and Desmond Jeans. Its plot, based on a short story by Doris ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Joseph Schildkraut, Chili Bouchier, Desmond Jeans
8. Wolves (1930)
57 min | Crime, Drama
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape.
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Charles Laughton, Dorothy Gish, Malcolm Keen, Jack Osterman
9. The Scarab Murder Case (1936)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Philo Vance comes to England to investigate the murder of a millionaire.
Director: Michael Hankinson | Stars: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Wally Patch, Kathleen Kelly, Henri De Vries
Votes: 10
10. Checkmate (1935)
67 min | Crime
An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Evelyn Foster, Sally Gray, Maurice Evans
Votes: 104
11. 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: 9
12. Magic Night (1932)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In Vienna just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Captain Maximilian Scheltoff falls in love with poor flower-shop girl Viki. Unfortunately, his father, General Scheltoff, has arranged ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle, Gina Malo, Clive Currie
Votes: 29
13. The Village Squire (1935)
66 min | Comedy
Vivien Leigh's debut movie about a small village putting on MacBeth when a Hollywood star arrives.
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: David Horne, Leslie Perrins, Moira Lynd, Vivien Leigh
Votes: 94
14. Black Waters (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: James Kirkwood, Mary Brian, John Loder, Robert Ames
15. Badger's Green (1934)
68 min | Comedy
A picturesque village is threatened with redevelopment by a speculative builder, leading to widespread protest. In the end the builder agrees to settle the future of the village on the result of a cricket match.
Director: Adrian Brunel | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Bruce Lester, David Horne, Sebastian Smith
Votes: 15
16. Say It with Music (1932)
69 min | Musical
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Jack Payne, Percy Marmont, Evelyn Roberts, Sybil Summerfield
17. Dangerous Ground (1934)
68 min | Mystery
Insurance agents plot to identify and bring down a crime kingpin.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Malcolm Keen, Jack Raine, Joyce Kennedy, Martin Lewis
Votes: 60
18. Talk of the Devil (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama
A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the ... See full summary »
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Sally Eilers, Basil Sydney, Randle Ayrton
Votes: 74
19. Night Ride (1937)
70 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Julian Vedey, Jimmy Hanley, Wally Patch, Joan Ponsford
Votes: 78
20. Antoinette (1932)
80 min | Comedy
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Jeanne Boitel, Armand Bernard, Nadine Picard, Rolla Norman
21. The Blarney Kiss (1933)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Anne Grey, Robert Douglas, W.G. Fay
22. Sorrell and Son (1933)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: H.B. Warner, Margot Grahame, Peter Penrose, Hugh Williams
23. The Woman in White (1929)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie (Blanche Sweet) goes to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde (Cecil Humphreys) to his mysterious mansion to be married.... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Haddon Mason, Cecil Humphreys, Louise Prussing
24. Runaway Queen (1934)
77 min | Musical
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Fernand Gravey, Muriel Aked, Miles Malleson
25. Incident in Shanghai (1938)
67 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Patrick Barr, Margaret Vyner, Derek Gorst, John Deverell
Votes: 34
26. Dawn (1928)
80 min | Drama, War
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Ada Bodart, Gordon Craig, Marie Ault
Votes: 39
27. Come Out of the Pantry (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Musical
A British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses, he finds himself ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Fay Wray, James Carew, Olive Blakeney
Votes: 10
28. Peg of Old Drury (1935)
75 min | Drama, History, Romance
Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Margaretta Scott, Maire O'Neill, Dorothy Robinson
Votes: 62
29. The Mayor's Nest (1932)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Sydney Howard, Claude Hulbert, Al Bowlly, Muriel Aked
30. Venetian Nights (1931)
88 min | Drama
During a performance of Othello, a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife, believing that she has committed adultery.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Matheson Lang, Joseph Schildkraut, Chili Bouchier, Lilian Braithwaite
31. Two's Company (1936)
64 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Ned Sparks, Gordon Harker, Mary Brian, Patric Knowles
32. Murder by Rope (1936)
64 min | Drama, Mystery
Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Sunday Wilshin, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Dorothy Hamilton
Votes: 22
33. Mischief (1931)
67 min | Comedy
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Jeanne Stuart, James Carew
34. A Night Like This (1932)
72 min
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Mary Brough
Votes: 11
35. Lilies of the Field (1935)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Winifred Shotter, Ellis Jeffreys, Anthony Bushell, Claude Hulbert
36. The Scarlet Daredevil (1928)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A dandy saves a wife from the guillotine by framing the woman who helped kidnap her.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Matheson Lang, Juliette Compton, Nelson Keys, Marjorie Hume
Votes: 13
37. To Be a Lady (1934)
68 min | Drama
Director: George King | Stars: Chili Bouchier, Bruce Lester, Vera Bogetti, Charles Cullum
38. The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Directors: Ralph Lynn, Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Kenneth Kove, Sunday Wilshin
39. A Peep Behind the Scenes (1929)
Drama
On her mother's death a circus girl flees to her aunt, pursued by her drunken father.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Frances Cuyler, Haddon Mason, H. Saxon-Snell, Vera Stanton
40. 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
41. Chauffeur Antoinette (1932)
88 min
Director: Herbert Selpin | Stars: Charlotte Ander, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Walter Steinbeck, Georgia Lind
42. Thark (1932)
79 min | Comedy, Horror
Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the ghost.
Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare
Votes: 16
43. Yes, Mr. Brown (1933)
Approved | 90 min | Musical, Comedy
Nicholas Baumann is the manager of a Viennese toy-shop that is owned by a Mr. Brown of America. Mr. Brown comes to Vienna to inspect the toy-shop, and Nicholas invites him home to dinner, ... See full summary »
Directors: Jack Buchanan, Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Jack Buchanan, Hartley Power, Elsie Randolph, Margot Grahame
44. Life Goes On (1932)
78 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Hugh Wakefield, Elsie Randolph, Betty Stockfeld, Wallace Geoffrey
45. Up for the Derby (1933)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Sydney Howard, Dorothy Bartlam, Mark Daly, Tom Helmore
46. Strange Cargo (1936)
68 min | Crime, Drama
Crooks in South America smuggle arms on an English cargo vessel to revolutionaries, but are exposed by a young girl, who later marries the captain's son.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Kathleen Kelly, George Mozart, Moore Marriott, George Sanders
Votes: 11
47. Splinters (1929)
82 min | Comedy
Musical comedy, based on the story of the founding of the 'Splinters' concert party in France 1915, by soldiers serving in the British Army on the Western Front.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Nelson Keys, Sydney Howard, Lew Lake, Hal Jones
Votes: 11
48. Get Your Man (1934)
67 min | Comedy
Two business rivals' planned merger includes a marriage between their son and niece, but the young couple run off with different partners.
Director: George King | Stars: Dorothy Boyd, Sebastian Shaw, Clifford Heatherley, Hugh E. Wright
49. Lord of the Manor (1933)
71 min | Comedy
Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Betty Stockfeld, Frederick Kerr, Henry Wilcoxon, Kate Cutler
Votes: 29
50. The Barton Mystery (1932)
76 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Ursula Jeans, Ellis Jeffreys, Lyn Harding, Ian Swinley