A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards
Apr 1936
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Sep 1932
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 legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
Jul 1932
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
Mar 1932
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
Apr 1931
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
Mar 1935
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Aug 1931
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
May 1934
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
Jul 1931
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
Jan 1932
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Feb 1932
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
Feb 1931
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Jul 1935
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
Oct 1935
Jan 1933
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
May 1936
A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
Jul 1937
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Dec 1936