Pat McGrath

A war recruitment film for the Fleet Air Arm done in a semi-documentary style.

An ailing old Irish man (Healy) lives out his final days. As death approaches, the man's memories drift backwards and forwards to recall various events, both pleasant and not so pleasant... (BBC Film Review)

This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe Swann, are staunch friends even when Kit marries Joe's dancing partner Evelyn. Joe fights in the Boer War where a bullet puts an end to his dancing days. He goes to work on the staff at Burns' Music Hall where Kit Jr. soon finds a place in his affections. Kit and Joe purchase the music hall and soon become a success.

Wealthy Private Roy Desmond takes his soldier friends to his palatial home to help him get his dream girl, who happens to be adopted.

Filmed in Rusholme, Manchester, for the great Mancunian Film Corporation, Cup-tie Honeymoon is a riotous post-war comedy from the North of England where the gags come quicker than the team's wingers!