Gus McNaughton

A stuffy barrister finds himself sharing his hotel room with a coquettish young woman, an act which sets off a myriad of misunderstandings.

Frank Burdon is a new reporter on a small-town Scottish paper. He's told to interview local politician William Gow, then left in charge of the paper overnight. He sees Gow being high-handed to a woman who can't afford to license her dog, and decides to run that story instead of the expected puff piece. Both are decent men, but a little too proud to back down, and the battle escalates into a criminal case... but at the same time, Burdon and Gow's daughter Victoria are falling in love. (imdb)

Albert doesn't understand how he can get food poisoning, but a series of flashbacks tell a different story. (imdb)

Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot?

"Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " (imdb)

George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself. (imdb)

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.

This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus begins to gamble spectacularly with his savings.

A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star. (imdb)

British musical-comedy involving a down-on-his-luck musician who invents an anti-theft device for cars, then hits the big time when he sells it to an insurance firm. The good luck continues when he marries the daughter of the insurance company boss. (imdb)

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!

A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!

A frugal coal miner in the north of England turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools.

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract.

WWI veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son. (imdb)

Based on Aimee Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a "grand tour" of the Continent. (imdb)

A maid finds herself in the middle of having to try to sort out the problems of the zany family she works for.

Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!

A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.

A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. She discovers happiness is where her husband is.

Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.

Strange film intertwining several vignettes involving Henry Hall and his BBC dance orchestra, in the studio at broadcast house, and their mishaps at children's outing, and how their music affects listeners on a luxury liner at sea, a mountaineering couple, two men trapped in a jungle cabin, and a court case where Romeo and Juliet-type neighbours fight over a loud wireless set.

George Butters is a double for a South American opera singer.

The woman that was here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner.

A London taxi driver finds a greyhound puppy and gives it to his daughter.

A sports reporter on the run from the police seeks to clear his name.

A musical comedy of false identities.