List of Films
More detailed information on the films can be found at BFI Screenonline at http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1405736/
| Title | Date | Min | Cast | Director | Producer | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alf's Baby (Her Three Bachelors in USA) | 1953 | 75 | Jerry Desmonde, Pauline Stroud, Olive Stone | John Harlow | Percy MacLean Rogers | Comedy about 3 men bringing up a baby. Precursor to '3 Men and a Baby' |
| Artful Dodgers | 1949 | 30 | Gillian Maude, Richard Foate | Renault B Capes | Dersden Films | Semi documentary based on 'Crime doesn’t pay' series broadcast by the BBC. |
| Bait The | 1950 | 57 | Diana Napier, John Bentley, John Oxford, Patricia Owens, Kenneth Hyde | Frank A Richardson | Frank A Richardson, acquired by Advance films | Whodunnit set in a country house. |
| Bless 'em All | 1949 | 79 | Hal Monty, Les Ritchie, Max Bygraves. | Robert Jordan Hill | Arthur Dent and Robert Jordan Hill | Army Comedy. |
| Comin' Thro' The Rye | 1847 | 56 | Terence Alexander, Shirley Dent, Patricia Burleigh, Molly Wier. | Arthur Dent | Walter C. Mycroft b 1890 d 1959 | Life of Bobert Burns |
| Crowded Day, The (Shop Soiled in the USA) | 1954 | 82 | John Gregson, Dora Bryan, Joan Hickson, Thora Hird, Sid James, Prunella Scales, Sidney Taffler, Rachel Roberts, Joan Rice. Dandy Nichols, Richard Wattis, Cyril Raymond (the husband in Brief Encounter) Vera Day, Freda Jackson, Kynaston Reeves, William Franklyn | David Dent | John Guillermin | Drama / comedy about department store girls living in a hostel together. Includes unwanted pregnancy as well as light romance. |
| Dollars for Sale | 1955 | 35 | Bernie Winters, Robert Hartford-Davis, John Slater, Robert Ayres, Earl Cameron, Victor Platt, Magda Miller, Larry Cross | Denis Kavanagh | Robert Hartford-Davis, Ascot House Film Productions | Anglo American police co-operate on tracking down forgers. The story of the biggest forgery in history. |
| Don’t Blame the Stork | 1954 | 80 | Veronica Hurst, Ian Hunter, Harry Fowler, Thora Hird, Averil Angers | David Dent | Victor Katona | A young actress plants herself and her baby in the home of a famous actor to prove she is a competent actress. |
| Father and Son (Twice Branded in USA) | 1936 | James Mason, Robert Rendell, Lucille Lisle | MacLean Rogers | George Smith | Crime / prison drama. A bank clerk takes the blame for a theft which he believes was committed by his ex-convict father | |
| Fight - Giants of the mat | 1944 | |||||
| Fight - Cockell v la Starza | 1954 | Highlights of the match at Earls Court. Eamonn Andrews and Norman Wisdom watching. | Highlights of boxing contest between Don Cockell and Roland La Starza at Earls Court. Credits (38). Cockell shadow boxing. CU Cockell (64). La Starza shadow boxing (75). Eamonn Andrews at ringside. Round 1: Norman Wisdom watching. Highlights from two other rounds and the final round. Referee Eugene Henderson raises Cockell's hand. . | |||
| Fight - Bronco Nagurski VS. Jim Londos | ||||||
| Fight - Turpin Story | 1951 | |||||
| Fight - Turpin v Robinson 10th July 1951 | 1951 | Sugar Ray Robinson v Randolph Turpin match 10 July 1951 when Turpin took the heavyweight title from Robinson. Robinson won it back in september that year. | Turpin took the heavyweight title from Robinson in this match. Robinson won it back in September that year.. | |||
| Fight - Women Wrestlers | 1951 | |||||
| Fight - Turpin v Olsen 1953 | 1953 | |||||
| Fight - Turpin v Cockell | 1952 | |||||
| For Love of You | 1933 | 77 | Arthur Riscoe, Naunton Wayne, Frnco Forester, Diana Napier, Pearl Osgood, Valerie Hobson | Carmine Gallone | Frank Richardson | Musical comedy |
| Fun at St Fanny's | 1956 | 80 | Fred Emney, Cardew Robinson, Vera Day, Miriam Karlin, Ronnie Corbett, Stanley Unwin, Kynaston Reeves, Claude Hulbert, Freddie Mills, Johnny Brandon, Davy Kaye, Gerald Campion., Carol Alexander | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | School boy comedy |
| Great Game, The | 1953 | 77 | Diana Dors, Thora Hird, Glyn Houston, James Hayter, Tommy Lawton. | Maurice Elvey | Maurice Elvey | Comedy/Drama . Football in the 1950s and football politics of the time including the effect of the wage cap for players. |
| Hands of Destiny | 1954 | 53 | Three true stories out of the casebook of Dr Josef Ranald, the World's master hand Analyst. | Grosvenor Films | Documentary about palmistry | |
| Happiness of Three Women, The (aka Wishing Well in USA) | 1954 | 78 | Petula Clark, Donald Houston, Glyn Houston, Eynon Evans, Brenda de Benzi, Patricia Cutts | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | Romantic comedy set in Wales. |
| He Done her Wrong | 1954 | 78 | Petula Clark, Donald Houston, Glyn Houston, Eynon Evans, Brenda de Benzi, Patricia Cutts | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | Romantic comedy set in Wales. |
| High Jinks in Society | 1949 | 78 | Ben Wrigley, Moore Marriott, Jean Lodge, radio revelers, the Squadronairres | Robert Jordan Hill & John Guillermin | Robert Jordan Hill & John Guillermin | Comedy about class set in Mayfair. |
| I was a Dancer | 1952 | 50 | Diana Napier, John Oxford, Igor Bartzinski | Frank Richardson | Frank Richardson | Crime drama about a ballerina |
| Intimate Relations (Disobedient in USA) | 1953 | 86 | Harold Warrender, Ruth Dunning, Elsie Albin, Marian Spenser, William Russell | Charles Frank | David Dent | Drama based on 'Les Parents Terribles' by Jean Cocteau. |
| Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary | 1953 | 80 | Diana Dors, Sidney James, David Tomlinson, Bonar Colleano | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | Romantic bedroom farce |
| Kilties are Coming, The | 1952 | 52 | McDonald Hobley, Peter Sinclair, The Royal Kiltie Juniors | Robert Jordan Hill | Robert Jordan Hill | Variety by young Scottish band. |
| Lads and Lassies on Parade | 1955 | 11 | The Royal Kiltie Juniors | Robert Jordan Hill | Robert Jordan Hill | Variety by young Scottish band. |
| Law and Disorder | 1940 | 59 | Alistair Sim, Diana Churchill, Leo Glenn, Edward Chapman, Barry K Barnes | KC Alexander, assist dir George Pollock. Produced by British Consolidated Pictures. | David McDonald | Espionage comedy. |
| Lets Go Crazy | 1951 | 34 | Peter Sellers Wallis Eaton, Betty Ankers, Monty and Austin, Freddie Mirfield and his band, Pat Kaye, Tommy Manley, Florence Austin, Keith Warwick | Alan Cullimore | Madcap comedy short written by Spike Milligan and Peter sellers. | |
| Melody in the Dark | 1949 | 67 | Ben Wrigley, Eunice Gayson; Carl Carlisle and Maisie Weldon; The Keynotes; The Stardusters | John Guillermin | Robert Jordan Hill | A show team lose their jobs and go to the haunted house inherited by the leading lady. They put on a show and discover the imprisoned owner and the housekeeper's villainy. |
| Miss Tulip Stays the night | 1955 | 68 | Diana Dors, Cicely Courtneidge, Jack Hulbert, Patrick Holt, A.E. Matthews | John O. Douglas | Bill Luckwell | Comedy Thriller. |
| My Death is a Mockery | 1952 | 80 | Donald Houston, Bill Kerr, Kathleen Byron | Anthony Young | David Dent | Naval Officer and his wife try to make money by smuggling brandy from France. Christopher Craig age 16 was convicted of murder of a policeman (with Derek Bentley) Bentley said ' let him have it Chris' and Bentley was hung but has been pardoned (??) Craig saw my death is a mockery that afternoon and it was said that the film egged him on the violence |
| My Wife's Lodger | 1952 | 73 | Diana Dors, Dominic Roche | Maurice Elvey | Victor Katona | Comedy about working class family. The husband returns from the war to find his children grown up and his wife too friendly with the lodger. |
| Nitwits on Parade, The | 1949 | 39 | Max Bygraves, Sid Millward, Wally Stewart | Robert Jordan Hill | Arthur Dent | Comedy with music |
| Penny Points to Paradise | 1951 | 77 | Peter Sellers Spike Milligan, Alfred marks, Harry Secombe, Bill Kerr, Freddie Frinton, Vicky Page, Paddy O'Niell | Tony Young | Alan J Cullimore | Madcap comedy about a pools winner on holiday at the seaside. released just prior to the goon show start on BBC radio. |
| Phantom Shot, The | 1947 | 49 | John Stuart, Olga Lindo, Howard Marion-Crawford, Louise Lord, Ronald Adam, John Varley, Cyril Conway, Jock McKay, Leslie Armstron | Mario Zampi | & | Murder mystery. |
| Ray of Sunshine, A | 1950 | 56 | Wilson Keppel and Betty + other variety acts. Ted Ray, Janet brown, Ivy Benson and her band, Freddy Bamberger and Pam, Robert Morton Fraser's harmonica gang. | Horace Shepherd | Horace Shepherd | Variety compered by Ted Ray. |
| Skimpy in the Navy | 1949 | 86 | Max Bygraves, Hal Monty, Les Ritchie, Averil Angers | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | Navy comedy |
| Slappiest Days of our Lives, The (Movie Mirthquake) | 1953 | Peter Sellers, Graham Stark(voice over) Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, Horold Lloyd, James Finlayson | R.A. Bradford (script) | Hilary Long (editor) | Extracts from Max Sennett's silent comedies | |
| Song of Paris (aka Bachelor in Paris) | 1952 | 83 | Dennis Price, Anne Vernon, Mischa Auer, Hermione Badeley, Brian Worth, Richard Wattis | Roger Proudlock | John Guillermin (b 1925) | Romantic comedy |
| Stars in Your Eyes | 1956 | 96 | Pat Kirkwood, Bonar Colleano, Nat Jackley, Jimmy Clitheroe, Freddie Frinton, Joan Sims, Dorothy Squires Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant not called so did not appear) Jack Jackson (top DJ in 1950s) Joan Sims | Maurice Elvey | David Dent | Musical comedy about a theatre company trying to save their show. |
| Tell Tale Heart, The | 1953 | 20 | Actor - Stanley Baker (there is only one actor) | JB Williams | Based on the Edgar Allan Poe Story | |
| Torment (Paper Gallows in USA) | 1949 | 78 | Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley, Dilys Laye | Robert Jordan Hill | John Guillermin | A dark thriller |
| What Every Woman Wants | 1954 | 86 | Brian Rix, Joan Hickson, Brenda de Benzie, Prunella Scales, Elsy Albin, Joan Sims | David Dent | Maurice Elvey | Comedy about a newlywed couple with no home of their own. Forced to live with parents, the young marrieds are never permitted a moment's privacy. Complicating matters is the arrival of returning soldier Jim Barnes (William Sylvester), whom the husband thick-headedly regards as a romantic rival. Also gumming up the works is a local labor dispute which results in several heated family arguments. |
| You Lucky People | 1955 | 79 | Tommy Trinder, Dora Bryan, Mary Parker, Rolf Harris. | David Dent | Maurice Elvey | Army Farce |

