Percy Parsons

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• Movie7.0

  WarThriller

  In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.

  49th Parallel

  1941 · 129 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaThriller

  London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

  Blackmail

  1929 · 288 votes

• Movie6.4

  DramaRomance

  Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.

  The Citadel

  1938 · 35 votes

• Movie5.6

  DramaHistory

  The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.

  Victoria the Great

  1937 · 8 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.

  Song of the Road

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie7.0

  Music

  When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes her new family to a farm. However, her greedy manager--seeing his "cash cow" slipping away--goes to court to have her declared legally incompetent.

  Everybody Dance

  1936 · 2 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyCrime

  Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims self-defence, but refuses to name the woman he was with at the speakeasy where Cooly was shot, and who could provide the alibi that would exonerate him from a murder charge. Galvin's continued pursuit of the woman's identity eventually leads to an unwelcome surprise.

  Okay, Chief

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie6.8

  DramaRomance

  Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.

  Dangerous Moonlight

  1941 · 9 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaCrime

  Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.

  Creeping Shadows

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie6.7

  RomanceComedy

  Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the popular radio series Hi Gang!.

  Hi Gang!

  1941 · 3 votes

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.

  They Flew Alone

  1942 · 4 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.

  This Is the Life

  1933 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  ActionCrime

  Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.

  King of the Damned

  1935 · 4 votes

• Movie6.4

  RomanceComedy

  Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

  The Good Companions

  1933 · 5 votes

• Movie8.0

  ComedyCrime

  The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.

  Strictly Business

  1931 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  AdventureDrama

  An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

  Jericho

  1937 · 6 votes

• Movie6.7

  ThrillerMystery

  The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

  The Four Just Men

  1939 · 6 votes

• Movie10.0

  CrimeDrama

  An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.

  The Nursemaid Who Disappeared

  1939 · 1 votes

• Movie6.4

  ComedyDrama

  It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

  Friday the Thirteenth

  1933 · 10 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  A retired businessman in Scotland, who is also a golf fanatic, will not let his daughter marry an Irish-American boy, Terry O'Reilly. Then one day O'Reilly's father shows up for a "visit"--which, as it turns out, is because he's on the run from the police in New York.

  Said O'Reilly to McNab

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie5.0

  RomanceComedy

  According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.

  The Man from Toronto

  1933 · 3 votes

• Movie6.0

  Drama

  David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.

  Red Ensign

  1934 · 8 votes

• Movie9.0

  Comedy

  The Gay Adventure

  1936 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Music

  A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.

  The Nipper

  1930 · 1 votes