Robertson Hare

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife Marcelle... (imdb)

Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances. (imdb)

A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon. (imdb)

"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke? (imdb)

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London. (imdb)

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

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

In this British comedy, set in Tangleton, a small English village, a handyman finds himself in trouble when he inadvertently assists two London reporters in their investigation of corruption in the town's postwar plans. To protect themselves, the town fathers have the handyman destroy several incriminating housing forms. Unfortunately an errant gust of wind sends the flying. Enlisting the aid of an eccentric inventor, the handyman succeeds in getting the corrupt officials out of office. (allmovie.com)

Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a long spell of unemployment by taking a waiter's job at a fancy society reception. (allmovie.com)

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)

A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.

A barrister attempts to discourage his daughter's infatuation for a philanderer by revealing his past. The plan backfires when the daughter's would-be father-in-law threatens to reveal the barrister's shady background. (imdb)

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

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

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.

Farce: Two business partners and their hardworking wives become heroes when they capture some fifth columnists.

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)