A. Bromley Davenport Movies

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in...

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National...

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

A comedy film directed by George King.

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with...

A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker

A Cornish man working in a silver mine on a French island is framed for killing a girl's father and brother.

The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record....

A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.

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...

Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last...