George Hayes

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Williams

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marius Goring

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tom Walls

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Todd

The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Neal Arden

A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Judy Campbell Exner

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnston Forbes-Robertson

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Austin Trevor

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Douglas Wakefield

The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Horace Hodges

A cabaret singer is found dead in her flat and Viscount Brent becomes a suspect. His cousin is convinced of his innocence and with a journalist...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugh Wakefield