H.F. Maltby
Actor · 1880 – 1963 · Ceres, South Africa
Henry Francis Maltby (25 November 1880 – 25 October 1963) was a prolific writer for the London stage and British cinema from after the First World War until the 1950s. He also appeared in many films. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Movie6.2DramaHistoryAt the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · 59 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerRomanceWhen a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
Young and Innocent
1937 · 260 votes
Movie5.6RomanceDramaAdam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Owd Bob
1938 · 9 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaWhen linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Pygmalion
1938 · 165 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
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
Movie6.9MysteryWarThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · 132 votes
Movie7.1ComedyWill Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Where There's a Will
1936 · 8 votes
Movie5.8RomanceComedyThe Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
Girls Will Be Boys
1934 · 4 votes
Movie8.5ComedyMother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
Old Mother Riley Joins Up
1939 · 2 votes
Movie7.7WarDramaA retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Medal for the General
1944 · 3 votes
- Movie6.7Comedy
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Jack of All Trades
1936 · 3 votes
Movie6.6MusicDramaThis classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.
The Great Mr Handel
1942 · 4 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
His Lordship Goes to Press
1938 · 2 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
Lost In The Legion
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.5ComedyJohn Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
The Gang's All Here
1939 · 2 votes
Movie6.3AdventureComedyIn pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Under Your Hat
1940 · 4 votes
Movie8.3MusicComedyA farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Those Were the Days
1934 · 3 votes
- Movie6.7ComedyDrama
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Pearls Bring Tears
1937 · 3 votes
- MovieDrama
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt and a scheming son who wants to be king himself and is plotting to take advantage of the situation.
Movie9.0ComedyA confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
The Morals of Marcus
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0MusicComedy
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
Everything in Life
1936 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Music
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
The Sky’s the Limit
1937 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ThrillerThe son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
Two's Company
1936 · 1 votes