Film Index
British cinema: 1930s
Save a Little Sunshine (1938)
Norman Lee
Having pocketed a generous reward for recovering a lost valuable fossil, Dave Smalley is persuaded to invest his windfall in the guest house where he is staying...
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Norman Lee
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Harold Young
France, 1792. The lofty ideals of the French Revolution are all but forgotten as a reign of terror sweeps the country. Aristocrats, monarchists and anyone who so much as sniffs at the Revolution are rounded up and dispatched with ruthless efficiency, courtesy of Madame Guillotine...
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Harold Young
Secret Agent (1936)
Alfred Hitchcock
1916. At the behest of British Intelligence, the writer-turned-war hero Edgar Brodie is sent to Switzerland to track down and kill an enemy agent...
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Skin Game (1931)
Alfred Hitchcock
For centuries, the Hillcrists have ruled their own piece of rural England, but times are changing and money now counts for more than breeding...
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Alfred Hitchcock
The Spy in Black (1939)
Michael Powell
In 1917, German U-boat commander Captain Hardt is sent to the northeastern coast of Scotland to make preparations for an attack on the British naval fleet...
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Michael Powell
Things to Come (1936)
William Cameron Menzies
During Christmas 1940, the world is engulfed by a devastating global conflict. The war lasts three decades and reduces human civilisation to rubble... [More...]
William Cameron Menzies
During Christmas 1940, the world is engulfed by a devastating global conflict. The war lasts three decades and reduces human civilisation to rubble... [More...]
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Alfred Hitchcock
Johann Strauss the Younger imagines that one day he will be a great composer like his father, but he gets no encouragement and has to content himself with playing the second violin in his father's orchestra... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
Johann Strauss the Younger imagines that one day he will be a great composer like his father, but he gets no encouragement and has to content himself with playing the second violin in his father's orchestra... [More...]
Where There's a Will (1936)
William Beaudine
Benjamin Stubbins is a solicitor who has fallen on hard times. Unable to attract clients, he is poorer than the proverbial Church mouse and faces being turned out of both his office and his lodgings... [More...]
William Beaudine
Benjamin Stubbins is a solicitor who has fallen on hard times. Unable to attract clients, he is poorer than the proverbial Church mouse and faces being turned out of both his office and his lodgings... [More...]
Windbag the Sailor (1936)
William Beaudine
Captain Ben Cutlet is fond of regaling one and all with tall tales of his nautical adventures. The reality is that, whilst he claims to be an old sea dog, he has never captained anything larger than a canal barge... [More...]
William Beaudine
Captain Ben Cutlet is fond of regaling one and all with tall tales of his nautical adventures. The reality is that, whilst he claims to be an old sea dog, he has never captained anything larger than a canal barge... [More...]
Young and Innocent (1937)
Alfred Hitchcock
When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance... [More...]
Alfred Hitchcock
When movie star Christine Clay is murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a young man named Robert Tisdall with whom she had a brief acquaintance... [More...]