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When his Hollywood starring career dried up in the mid-1930s, matinee idol Charles Farrell headed to England, where he played newspaper reporter Brian Gaunt in the fast-paced meller Midnight Menace. The storyline acknowledges the fact that Television was firmly established in England in 1937, with the BBC beaming out programs on a regular schedule. (allmovie.com)

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down. (imdb)

In this romance, two people who have never met will inherit a million dollars if they marry each other. Neither is thrilled with the prospect, and the woman, to meet him, impersonates his new maid. Soon they fall in love for real. A lawyer mediates. (allmovie.com)

In this British farce, a legendary duel is destined to be repeated in an old house at Hyde Park Corner when the two descendants of the original combatants mysteriously reconvene. Based on Walter Hackett's play. (imdb)

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess.

A hard ironmaster is blinded saving men in war and returns home to thwart a strike and win a Lady's daughter. (imdb)

In this romantic drama, a renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. In the gypsy camp, he continues to sing on the street. While there, he falls for a beautiful, naive gypsy girl who doesn't know that he is famous.

Archie Burton is a horse trainer who has entered one of his horses, Take A Chance, into the Gold Cup. But his wife is irritated by his mood towards her so becomes friendly with another man whose real objective is to learn the secrets of her husbands stables.

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama – with time for some laughs – portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike.

A Soho restaurateur's protégée becomes a star.