Hal Gordon
Actor · 1894 – 1946 · London, England, UK
Movies24
Movie5.0DramaWarLots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
The Next of Kin
1942 · 10 votes
Movie5.3DramaA young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
The Man Behind the Mask
1936 · 6 votes
Movie6.0A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
Happy
1933 · 2 votes
Movie9.0ComedyA butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
Hawleys of High Street
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyMusicShortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Let George Do It!
1940 · 15 votes
Movie6.8RomanceDramaA bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
1936 · 30 votes
Movie5.6DramaHistoryThe 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
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
Movie6.5DramaMusicDespite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
Keep Your Seats, Please
1936 · 11 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Aristocrat Lord Dawlish is told by his girlfriend's father that he must find a job if he wishes to continue seeing her. He finds employment as a dancing partner at a dance club and prospers in his new role, despite facing a jealous rival.
Partners Please
1932 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
Lord Camber's Ladies
1932 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
Old Mother Riley Detective
1943 · 3 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMusicA brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
Play Up the Band
1935 · 3 votes
Movie6.8CrimeIn this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Crime on the Hill
1933 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyA specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Strip! Strip! Hooray!!! or (Fun with the Sunbathers)
1932 · 3 votes
Movie10.0ComedySlapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
1931 · 1 votes
Movie10.0AdventureAdapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
The Windjammer
1930 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerCrimeThe middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie6.0Music
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
I'll Turn to You
1946 · 3 votes
Movie5.6DramaWarWhen Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Millions Like Us
1943 · 15 votes
Movie5.9ComedyGeorge Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
It's in the Air
1938 · 11 votes
Movie5.0DramaMusicSet in Venice, the touching and sometimes unintentionally comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
My Song Goes Round the World
1934 · 2 votes
Movie7.0MusicComedyA useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
For the Love of Mike
1932 · 1 votes
Movie8.0MusicImpoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Out of the Blue
1931 · 1 votes