Alfred Drayton
Actor · 1881 – 1949 · Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Movies24
- Movie10.0Romance
A Lord who intervenes to save the mistress of a notorious playboy from a suicide attempt. After rescuing her, he eventually marries her, leading to a dramatic shift in her social standing and life.
The Honeypot
1920 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaRacehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest
The Calendar
1931 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaA fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947 · 22 votes
- Movie8.0CrimeDrama
Iron Justice
1915 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Love Maggy
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0MysteryCrimeHolmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
A Scandal in Bohemia
1921 · 2 votes
Movie6.3ComedyRomanceA stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Don't Take It to Heart
1944 · 5 votes
Movie6.4ComedyAn aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which causes problems for her when a very determined young man falls in love with her. A remake of the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria.
First a Girl
1935 · 16 votes
Movie7.0Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Aren't Men Beasts!
1937 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceThe young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
Brown Sugar
1931 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyAmerican (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal.
So This Is London
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerCrimeA detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
The Squeaker
1930 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyMusicMember of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
Oh, Daddy!
1935 · 3 votes
Movie5.6DramaBased on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
The Crimson Circle
1936 · 4 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
It's a Boy
1934 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ComedyWhen Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
Banana Ridge
1942 · 5 votes
Movie8.0WarActionA tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The W Plan
1930 · 2 votes
Movie6.3MusicRomanceOne of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.
Radio Parade of 1935
1934 · 4 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
Movie6.4ComedyDramaIt 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
Movie4.7ComedyHorrorA young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
Things Happen at Night
1948 · 9 votes
Movie6.7DramaWarWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
The Big Blockade
1942 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaAfter a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
They Knew Mr. Knight
1946 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaDavid 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