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- The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
- A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
- After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
- Sailor rises ranks to captain, marries, has son, loses command when ship rammed to save passengers. Lives in countryside for years until grown son contacts old crewmates and ship is recommissioned with sailor as captain again.
- A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
- A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
- The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
- Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
- An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.
- Two lovelorn strangers arrange to meet each other on a cruise, but for one reason or another two different people end up taking their place.
- A Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother with whom to contend, so he joins those in the forest.
- A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted), to her brief reign as monarch of England, and finally to her beheading. This movie portrays her as an innocent set up for the slaughter, while the scheming courtiers and pretenders to the throne barely pay her mind, as they stab each other in the back in their attempts to gain power and influence.
- A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail, vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang, he keeps his word, only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try to put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort, his problems are just beginning.
- Dr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.
- 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 business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
- 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, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
- Literary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.
- An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.
- In Lucco everyone loves music, singing at any occasion, work can wait and so the state's debt. So the ruling princess bans music. Then singer Carlini returns home. Aided by a journalist and his daughter they fight the proclaim -with music.
- A bragging sea captain's maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is coerced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked.
- 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.
- An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
- A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
- A wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.
- A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
- A black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga.
- A crazed killer known as "The Spinebreaker" is terrorizing London with a series of grisly murders. The police seem powerless to stop him.
- Ann Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) by Davey's wife Barbara (Gertrude Lawrence). Davey's "Othello" becomes a hit and Ann, even though fired by Skeates, becomes a fan of Davey and starts to fall for him, much to the jealousy of her boyfriend Tommy (Sir Rex Harrison). At the prospect of involvement in an adulterous triangle, Ann recoils. But despite her resolution, the characters' love lives become ever more tangled and a real-life tragedy of Othello looms.
- A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court to find out who framed his father and why.
- During the first world war a Canadian officer escapes from a prison camp and reaches Berlin where he and a streetwalker plan to reach Holland.
- Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love, drives to the coast while drunk and interrupts some smugglers.
- A young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
- Tony Seymour and his partner Gaby Ramarios are a dance team who perform an Apache specialty number, which ends with Tony, via a steel waistcoat with a scabbard arrangement, getting a knife plunged into his back, but he is unharmed since Gaby is an expert knife thrower. They are auditioning for parts in "La Nouvelle Revue" which is to open in three weeks at the Alhambra of Paris. The star is Yvette Delange, described as "a beautiful woman who could not hide with the most perfect makeup the ravages of time." She also does not like rehearsals, but perks up at the sight of Tony. Alphonse de la Riviere, once a great star but now just an assistant to the producer Morel, winces when he hears this. Later, Yvette sends Alphonse to fetch Tony to her dressing room, and informs Tony that Gaby is not invited. Tony accepts her invitation. Gaby is not pleased. Yvette is found murdered, stabbed with a knife belonging to Gaby. And Gaby is charged with murder. Tony's mission now is to clear Gaby and find the real killer. Tony's suspects include Morel, Alphonse, Dubec the concierge and possibly Ninette Duval, a member of the chorus, who has her eye on Tony. She is also the only one who knows that Tony and Gaby are married.
- The British agent Larry travels to Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey in order to thwart a revolution.
- In Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?
- A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
- An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
- The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
- Two prospectors find a map to a diamond mine, partner with aviators for financing. In Africa, they face interference from villains also seeking the diamonds. One partner is killed, raising stakes in the race to claim the mine.
- This rousing adventure film tells the true story of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond miner who helped found the South African colonies.
- An ordinary working class seamstress who is mistaken as a rich patron of the arts. When she's asked to back a new show she plays along with the charade, hoping that she can become the production's leading lady.
- Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues...
- A whimsical spectacle of a little boy's adventures with a gang of bandits who are terrorizing a small southern European town.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- A young businessman (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his jailbird father is determined to save him.
- The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
- A secret agent puts his life on the line to save a town's liquid explosives from crooks.