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- After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
- The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death.
- During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.
- Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
- A woman wrongfully accused of being a Nazi sympathizer is forced to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
- Film version of a popular BBC radio show about the incompetent crew of a Royal Navy ship.
- A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
- When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash.
- Richard, son of the King of Laurentia, who has been living in Monte Carlo with Martha Karrillos for several years because his parents refused to accept this unroyal affair, is called to assume his duties after his father's death. He is expected to marry the princess of an allied country and produce with her an heir to the throne. Will he give up his true love?
- A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. Their marriage, however, is threatened by a wealthy man who sets his sights on the wife.
- An English playboy gentleman is broke when he inherits London's leading dress store in the posh Mayfair district. Instead of selling it for cash, he enters the business of "rags" for riches and romance. -- SimonJack
- Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
- Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
- After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
- Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel to the 1937 film has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch's reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Victoria's relationship with Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) as well as the political and military upheavals that characterized her time as Queen.
- A married composer has a brief fling with a heiress who is engaged to his brother.
- A diamond merchant's niece falls for his new footman who is really an impoverished aristocrat.
- In 1943 England, an American Army Air Force gunner falls in love with a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who has long been expected to marry a British paratrooper Major, prompting him to go back to combat duty.
- King Charles sees actress Nell perform and they become close, as he favors her over the Duchess. Nell serves Charles devotedly though she and the Duchess clash. Despite the King's fondness, as an actress she's barred from the royal circle.
- Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South American who, with his daughter Marissa, has returned to the land of his forefathers. Led by Lansing, the people eventually prevail upon Mengues to restore peace to the glen, but not before a brief and unconvincing fight between Lansing and Dukes, the Mengues foreman.
- During WWII, Anna marries Michael before leaving for Singapore. Her ship sinks but she survives on an island. Believing her dead, Michael remarries and has a child. After 3 years Anna returns and learns Michael has moved on.
- A mysterious stowaway opens the door to adventure for two unsuspecting holidaymakers.
- Frankie Vaughan stars as young pop singer Johnny Burns, who is enlisted reluctantly by Frances Baring (Anna Neagle), a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. As a result, Johnny falls for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by Janette Scott.
- No longer able to make a living as a fisherman, Gibraltan Carmelo goes to London to seek his fortune.
- Based on Conrad's short story of a red-headed beauty of the eighteen-eighties who was a singer in an elegant Parisian night-club, whose laugh gave her the title of "Laughing Anne". Her lover, Jen Farrell wins a fight that should have led to a meeting with heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan but crooks, who had sought to fix the fight, fixed him instead and Farrell is so hurt that Laughing Anne realizes he will never fight again. They drift to the Eastern seas where Anne becomes a singer in sordid Javanese bars. There she meets Captain Davidson, the master of a trading schooner, stows away on his ship and begs him to take her to Singapore. In the slow lazy cruise, Davidson falls under the spell of Laughing Anne and begs her to marry him, but she has learned from him an old forgotten sense of loyalty, jumps ship at Singapore and makes her way back to the blowzy, forlorn life with Farrell. Years later, Davidson meets her again when an unusual cargo takes him to a strange lonely, hot-and-steamy jungle settlement; the Woman with the Laugh has sunk in squalor and, although she is still with Farrell, she has a little boy named Davy with her. Davidson's heart and mind leap back to the rapture of that Archipelago cruise and he tells Annie he will take her and Davy away with him. But Farrell has heard of Davidson's rich cargo and plans to seize it.
- The fortunes of an upper-class British family are followed through three wars and four generations.
- Actress Peg is jilted by her boyfriend Michael, and becomes a famous Drury Lane actress.
- Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
- Police Captain Gordon and Sergeant Elk set out to put an end to the activities of a criminal mastermind who calls himself The Frog. They encounter blackmail, murder, arson and robbery along the way, mixed in with cabaret dancers, eccentric Americans, American gangsters and beautiful girls whose fathers seem to have strange occupations.
- A dissolute English advocate goes to the guillotine in place of his aristocratic double.
- Frankie, an out-of-work sailor, meets Bud, a tramp who claims he is a millionaire. Bud gives him a shilling and promises him that if he can make £100 from it, he will be given £1,000. Armed with this, Frankie goes off to pursue his singing career and win the heart of Julie, the girlfriend of upper-class criminal Tony.
- The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
- A barrister (Anna Neagle) tries to defend her client, a U.S. scientist (Anthony Quayle), for killing his bride (Zsa Zsa Gabor), a U.S. spy.
- Jacqueline, a London gutter-snipe is "befriended" by Marius Andreani, a diplomat known for being a rounder with the ladies, but he goes pure with Jacqueline, resolved to help her to the heights of Terpsichore, for which she has a talent. But the friend of his, an elderly benefactor who secretly advanced the funds, through a priest, makes a play for her while she is climbing the ladder to success. He also has Marius appointed to a diplomatic post in Shanghai.
- A chorus girl (Anna Neagle) discovers a singer (Arthur Tracy) in the streets and asks her producer to give him a shot at stardom. Musical. Initial release: June 25, 1937
- A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
- The former partner of a master criminal turns himself in to Scotland Yard. The criminal, a master of disguise, plots to kill his partner, but must first get through the wall of security Scotland Yard has thrown around him.
- The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
- The Blue Danube is a 1932 British romance film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Brigitte Helm, Joseph Schildkraut and Desmond Jeans. Its plot, based on a short story by Doris Zinkeisen, concerns a Hungarian gypsy who leaves his girlfriend for a countess, but soon begins to suffer heartache. The film was made in both English and German-language versions.
- In Vienna just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Captain Maximilian Scheltoff falls in love with poor flower-shop girl Viki. Unfortunately, his father, General Scheltoff, has arranged his marriage to Countess Helga through the Emperor. Maximilian and Viki plan to elope the night of Helga's ball, but his father intercedes, sending Maximilian to the front lines when he learns of his son's wedding plans. Maximilian sends Viki a letter proclaiming his undying love, but the letter is never delivered. Instead, Viki receives a letter from the general, telling her that Maximilian is going to fulfill his family honor and marry Helga. When Maximilian does not arrive at their predetermined meeting place, Viki thinks the worse, believing that he was too cowardly to tell her the truth. After World War I ends, Viki becomes a stage star, while Maximilian is reduced to being a simple shoe salesman. Maximilian goes to Viki and proclaims his love once more, but she, still hurt by his desertion for the countess, spurs him. Maximilian, with a song from his heart, manages to win her back, and the couple is finally reunited.
- Aubrey Henry Maitland Allington is an unsuccessful inventor with a list of debts longer than his name. When financial relief arrives in the form of a large inheritance, Aubrey's exuberance is quickly quashed when he realizes that his creditors will certainly snatch up all of his newly acquired "tons of money" before he lays a hand on it.
- A British aristocrat, Lord Robert Brent, travels to New York City to sell some paintings. He deposits the money from the sale in a bank, but when the bank collapses, he finds himself stranded in America with no money and many bills. By chance, Robert meets the old family butler, Eccles, who is now working in New York for the wealthy Beach-Howard family. Eccles helps Roberts to take up employment as a footman in the Beach-Howard household. Robert becomes romantically involved with the young niece, Hilda Beach-Howard. She begins to suspect his true identity. Robert's elder brother arrives in New York to find out what has happened to his sibling. The bank that holds Robert's money reopens, and Robert proposes marriage to Hilda whilst serving dinner. She accepts his proposal.
- A young man is pursued by his fiancee after a quarrel. She sends her uncle to investigate him and to give his consent to the marriage. The young man gives a wild party in order to shock the uncle but he enjoys himself thoroughly.
- A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
- Going 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.
- Two acrobats compete for their beautiful female partner, until one of them decides to leave the circus.
- For reasons of his own a sea captain pays one of his sailors to marry a singer, but not long after the marriage the two find they are actually in love.