Leslie S. Hiscott
Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when.arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley. (imdb)
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A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty. (imdb)
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A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash. (imdb)
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In this comedy, a young playboy and a petty thief both simultaneously attempt to impersonate an non-existent butler. (allmovie.com)
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A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed. A Gritty British crime film. From 16mm. (imdb)
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Wishing to acquire the Mona Lisa, a South American racketeer makes a deal with the Nazis for the famous portrait. (imdb)
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Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
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Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. (imdb)
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A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer. (imdb)
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During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman. (imdb)
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The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
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Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
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Two penniless sisters decide to let part of their inherited estate be used as an airbase for the U.S. military.
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Tony Pumpford (George Gee) takes a job selling the Mop-It-Up vacuum cleaner. He tangles with a chorus girl (Betty Astell) and accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner. Chaos reigns, but all ends happily!
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The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
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At a firm of contractors a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
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A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.
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