Tom Walls
Oyuncu · 1883 – 1949 · Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia Tom Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 – 27 November 1949) was an English stage and film actor, producer and director, best known for presenting and co-starring in the Aldwych farces in the 1920s and for starring in and directing the film adaptations of those plays in the 1930s. Walls spent his early years as an actor, from 1905, mostly in musical comedy, touring the British provinces, North America and Australia and in the West End. He specialised in comic character roles, typically flirtatious middle aged men. In 1922 he went into management in partnership with the comic actor Leslie Henson. They had an early success in the West End with a long-running farce, Tons of Money, after which Walls commissioned and staged a series of farces at the Aldwych Theatre that ran almost continuously over the next decade. He and his co-star Ralph Lynn were among the most popular British actors of their time. In addition to his work in the theatre, Walls directed and acted in more than forty films between 1930 and 1949. Some of these were screen versions of the successful stage plays, others were specially-written comedies on similar lines, and there were also serious films, particularly later in Walls's career.
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Film6.1DramSavaşOccupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
Undercover
1943 · 8 votes
Film10.0SavaşKomediOne wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
This Man Is Mine
1946 · 1 votes
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Overbearing but kind-hearted old industrialist Sir Henry Woodstock (known as "Old Iron" to his family) quarrels with his favourite son Harry because Harry wishes to marry the daughter of a business opponent whom he suspects of shady practices. Harry, who has inherited his father's temperament, drives away in a blind fury, runs a man down and kills him. At his trial for manslaughter Sir Henry's testimony as to the quarrel, and the mental disturbance that must have resulted from the conflict in Harry's mind between love of his father and determination to do what he himself thought right, secures Harry's acquittal.
Old Iron
1938
Film6.5GizemDramA group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
The Halfway House
1944 · 34 votes
Film8.0DramGenerational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
The Master of Bankdam
1947 · 2 votes
Film10.0KomediA tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
A Cup of Kindness
1934 · 1 votes
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 · 5 votes
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The Interrupted Journey
1949 · 19 votes
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They Met in the Dark
1943 · 15 votes
Film7.1KomediLife in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy, is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly footman. Bored with the attentions of vain movie stars and eccentric minor nobility, she's captivated by his easy-going charm and ready to fall. But will his scandalous secret come between them and true happiness?
Spring in Park Lane
1948 · 7 votes
Film7.0KomediGoing under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
A Night Like This
1932 · 1 votes
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Maytime in Mayfair
1949 · 4 votes
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While I Live
1947 · 7 votes
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Love Story
1944 · 7 votes
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In this British comedy, set during the Boer War, a foot soldier saves his major's life. The officer is most grateful and puts the soldier in line for a Victoria Cross (a medal for valor). Unfortunately the well-meaning major's actions cause the soldier to be extradited back to England where he must stand trial for a series of crimes he committed before he joined the military. Later the major scours the British jails in search of the heroic lad. He finally finds him recruiting soldiers for WW I.
For Valour
1937 · 2 votes
Film6.1KomediSuçLondon has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Crackerjack
1938 · 6 votes
Film6.8KomediDramThe fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Johnny Frenchman
1945 · 5 votes
Film7.0KomediSir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficient Mr. Bullock. By contrast, a neighbouring shop is filled with unhelpful staff overseen by an incompetent and lazy manager, Raymond Penny, who is more interested in horseracing than running his shop. Craggs is unimpressed by Penny and summons him to a meeting in London. Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.
Stormy Weather
1935 · 2 votes
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The Aldwych Theater farceurs are at it again in Fighting Stock. The punning title refers to a well-stocked rural fishing stream, which sparks a battle royale between two rival groups of fishermen. Brigadier-General Sir Donald Rowley (Tom Walls) gets involved in the fray when he rents a country cottage with his nephew Sydney (Ralph Lynn). While the nephew pitches woo at the local maidens, General Rowley adopts military tactics to reclaim the stream from village squire Duck (J. Robertson Hare).
Fighting Stock
1935 · 2 votes
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A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
Second Best Bed
1938 · 3 votes
Film8.0KomediA husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
Rookery Nook
1930 · 1 votes
Film8.0GerilimGizemPre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Strange Boarders
1938 · 1 votes
Film5.6KomediRomantikA woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Me and Marlborough
1935 · 5 votes
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An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
Foreign Affaires
1935 · 1 votes