The Human Monster 1939
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
A pair of sisters have ambitions to take to the stage when they realize that their parent's act is finished.
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants.
A tramp is invited to stay with the family of a teenage girl who has been unable to smile since childhood in a bid to cure her.
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
A British drama film directed by John Argyle
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
A film directed by Charles Barnett.
A British sports drama film directed by Charles Barnett
Follows the development of the variety theatre from 1892 to the present day, centred on a family in show business.
A British crime drama film directed by Charles Barnett
Devon fisherman loves girl but marries injured sister.