
Cyril Smith
Actor · 1892 – 1963 · Peterhead, Scotland, UK
Movies24
Movie6.7ComedyRomanceGeorgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Romance on the High Seas
1948 · 36 votes
Movie7.4ComedyRomanceA local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Storm in a Teacup
1937 · 31 votes
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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
Movie5.8DramaThrillerA newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Conspirator
1949 · 24 votes
Movie5.7ComedyTricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
On the Fiddle
1961 · 7 votes
Movie7.2DramaWarWartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
School for Secrets
1946 · 5 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerA plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
Stolen Face
1952 · 31 votes
Movie6.9ComedyA wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Value for Money
1955 · 8 votes
Movie6.0ComedyThrillerEfforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Green Grow the Rushes
1951 · 7 votes
Movie6.6DramaThrillerAfter being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
They Made Me a Fugitive
1947 · 61 votes
Movie5.9DramaCrimeIn this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
Mystery Junction
1951 · 12 votes
Movie7.4ComedyDramaPickpocket Libby is protected by aging street performer Charles, who takes her into his troupe. Libby's dancing leads her to meet songwriter Harley and launch a stage career, while Charles is seemingly spurned by the waif he has helped.
St. Martin's Lane
1938 · 28 votes
Movie5.4HistoryRomanceIn Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. clashes with his domineering father, who wants him to abandon music for a steady job in a bakery. Torn between his love for the baker’s daughter, Resi, and the encouragement of a wealthy countess, Strauss finds inspiration that leads to the creation of "The Blue Danube."
Waltzes from Vienna
1934 · 53 votes
Movie5.5ComedyCrimeThis movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Who Done It?
1956 · 14 votes
Movie7.0ComedySailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Watch It, Sailor!
1961 · 3 votes
Movie7.3ComedyMusicTwo strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
One Night with You
1948 · 2 votes
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This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
Wild Boy
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.8DramaThe 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
Movie5.5DramaRomanceReturning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · 10 votes
Movie6.1RomanceDramaA man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Svengali
1954 · 9 votes
Movie7.5ComedyBattle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
Sailor Beware
1956 · 6 votes
Movie6.3RomanceAdventureDramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
The Challenge
1938 · 9 votes
Movie6.8RomanceDramaMartin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
Night Was Our Friend
1951 · 4 votes
Movie4.5MysteryDramaAn ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
Series5
TV4.8CrimeDramaNo Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
No Hiding Place
1959 · 4 votes
TV7.0Action & AdventureThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956 · 5 votes
TV6.3Terry is a youngish bachelor who lives with his mother (Vi Stevens). He's a bit of a dreamer who wants to get rich as quickly and as easily as possible. Terry comes up with one grand "get rich quick" scheme after another, causing endless problems for himself and his friend, Hugh.
Hugh and I
1962 · 3 votes
TVDramaA BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Theatre Night
1957
TVCrimeDramaA series of three minute strange tales narrated by Peter Williams.