| Movie Name |
Job |
Release Date |
Overview |
| Champagne Charlie |
Screenplay |
1944-08-25 |
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attenti… |
| O.H.M.S. |
Scenario Writer |
1937-01-01 |
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie i… |
| The Phantom Light |
Dialogue |
1935-08-05 |
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the r… |
| My Song for You |
Adaptation |
1934-07-30 |
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get h… |
| Jack of All Trades |
Dialogue |
1936-12-30 |
In this he’s on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a ba… |
| A Gentleman’s Gentleman |
Writer |
1939-05-17 |
A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail…. |
| Laugh It Off |
Writer |
1940-03-09 |
As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, hi… |
| Road House |
Writer |
1934-11-29 |
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson…. |
| Aunt Sally |
Adaptation |
1934-06-13 |
An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as “Zaza”, a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she find… |
| A Girl Must Live |
Writer |
1939-09-24 |
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility…. |
| Sailors Three |
Screenplay |
1940-12-14 |
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship… |
| Car of Dreams |
Writer |
1935-01-09 |
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in lov… |
| Ships with Wings |
Screenplay |
1941-11-10 |
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Gre… |
| Seven Sinners |
Dialogue |
1936-06-01 |
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery … |
| Dr. O’Dowd |
Writer |
1940-06-22 |
Marius O’Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O’Dowd is performing. Although O’… |
| Let George Do It! |
Screenplay |
1940-07-12 |
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken … |
| Old Mother Riley in Society |
Writer |
1940-07-27 |
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime “Aladdin”, where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the … |
| Old Mother Riley Detective |
Writer |
1943-05-31 |
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed… |
| Heaven Is Round the Corner |
Writer |
1944-04-10 |
A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of … |
| Feather Your Nest |
Screenplay |
1937-03-12 |
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song…. |
| South American George |
Writer |
1941-12-27 |
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulf… |
| The Show Goes On |
Writer |
1937-03-31 |
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she’s discovered by an ailing composer who’s seeking the right singer for his songs…. |
| Spare a Copper |
Writer |
1940-12-02 |
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destructi… |
| Happy |
Writer |
1933-12-11 |
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful…. |
| Give Me the Stars |
Writer |
1945-05-14 |
… |
| The Girl in the Taxi |
Screenplay |
1937-09-02 |
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting … |
| Don Chicago |
Writer |
1945-08-06 |
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangle… |
| We’ll Smile Again |
Writer |
1942-12-07 |
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce…. |
| Theatre Royal |
Screenplay |
1943-07-26 |
The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will s… |
| When We Are Married |
Writer |
1943-07-12 |
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that th… |
| Thank Evans |
Writer |
1938-10-16 |
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman’s horse…. |
| Oh, Daddy! |
Writer |
1935-02-08 |
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London…. |
| A Southern Maid |
Writer |
1934-03-01 |
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure…. |
| Turned Out Nice Again |
Screenplay |
1941-08-01 |
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and gettin… |
| Keep Fit |
Dialogue |
1937-07-31 |
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing ma… |
| Keep Fit |
Scenario Writer |
1937-07-31 |
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing ma… |
| Heat Wave |
Screenplay |
1935-05-30 |
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical Sout… |
| Heat Wave |
Story |
1935-05-30 |
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical Sout… |
| Murder Will Out |
Writer |
1939-08-13 |
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads … |
| Night of the Garter |
Screenplay |
1933-09-18 |
‘Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.’ (British Film Catalogue)… |
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