Ben Travers

An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama. (www.allmovie.com)

An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room. (wikipedia)

Staff in a jewelery store hatch a plan to catch a thief. (imdb)

A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court. (wikipedia.org)

Upper class but broke, two British scroungers cause havoc in high society on the French Riviera. (imdb)

Walls plays an Englishman who's assigned the task of transporting a Queen(Yvonne Arnaud) of a revolution-torn country to England incognito. Hiding her in his London apartment, then his country house gives rise to many misunderstandings among his employees, friends and his Fianceé. (imdb)

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other. (imdb)

In this romantic comedy two young people defy their feuding parents and marry. Accusations of fraud ensue. (allmovie.com)

The Aldwych Theater farceurs are at it again in Fighting Stock. The punning title refers to a well-stocked rural fishing stream, which sparks a battle royale between two rival groups of fishermen. Brigadier-General Sir Donald Rowley (Tom Walls) gets involved in the fray when he rents a country cottage with his nephew Sydney (Ralph Lynn). While the nephew pitches woo at the local maidens, General Rowley adopts military tactics to reclaim the stream from village squire Duck (J. Robertson Hare). (allmovie.com)

In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I. (allmovie.com)

A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law. (imdb)

When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.

Businessman Sir Duncan Craggs and two of his managers visit the Chinatown district in London where a sinister Russian (the first husband of Sir Duncan's wife) is plotting blackmail, but he's foiled during a skirmish in a Chinese opium den.

Recently retired, big-headed, Inspector Fitzpatrick traces priceless vase to manor house owned by the ineffectual Pye. (imdb)

Max and David are enjoying a Christmas holiday and have a lot of fun, mainly at the expense of the feeble Stoatt. (imdb)

An American in London dislikes England until his daughter falls for the son of the lord with whom he wants to conclude a business deal. (imdb)