Ernest Sefton
Actor · 1883 – 1954 · London, England, UK
Movies23
- Movie7.0Comedy
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
Hello, Sweetheart
1935 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
Radio Parade
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyMusicWhen a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Here Comes the Sun
1945 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyNaïve young Englishman, Silas P. Binns inherits a substantial business in Chicago. Unaware of the city's reputation for rampant organized crime during the Prohibition era, Silas arrives in America with idealistic expectations. Upon his arrival, he finds himself inadvertently caught in the middle of a fierce and dangerous turf war between rival gangster factions. The humor of the film stems from Silas's "innocent" and oblivious nature as he navigates the violent underworld of Chicago, often mistaking life-threatening situations for ordinary business or social interactions.
The Innocents of Chicago
1932 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
Great Stuff
1933 · 1 votes
Movie4.8MysteryThrillerA young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
1932 · 15 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
Enemy of the Police
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyGeorge Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
I See Ice
1938 · 7 votes
- Movie4.3Comedy
Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Old Mother Riley's Circus
1941 · 7 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMusicGutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Look Up and Laugh
1935 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyOld Mother Riley starts a new business.
Old Mother Riley in Business
1941 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaActionThe building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Great Barrier
1937 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A hypochondriac misunderstands a telephone conversation, and believes he has only two days to live. It galvanises him into action and he finds all kinds of a new friends who free him from anxiety.
Two Days to Live
1940 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
“Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.
What’s in a Name?
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceA Chinese missionary comes to England and helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's masterpiece.
Broken Blossoms
1936 · 8 votes
Movie6.6ComedyCrimeA Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
The Body Vanished
1939 · 5 votes
- Movie7.3
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses board ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls of the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
She Shall Have Music
1935 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicThe 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.
Britannia of Billingsgate
1933 · 3 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
An American woman is fooled into thinking that she is the heiress to an estate in England.
The Girl in Possession
1934 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
Millions
1937 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
1932 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Two nightclub cloakroom attendants become entangled with an enemy spy ring in an adventure that takes them to Paris.
That’s The Ticket
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.4MusicAn impoverished team of composer and songwriter try to secure financial backing for their new musical, with the assistance of a struggling actress working as a housemaid.
Cheer Up
1936 · 5 votes