The Price of Wisdom 1935
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.