Browse 54 movies from Warner Brothers-First National Productions
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
Dec 1938
“Jim Oakley hears in prison that his son is to be made a substitute by a gang for a rich American family's son who was kidnapped years back. He breaks jail to rescue his son but after seeing how happy his son will be with the family, he renounces his claim to boy and returns to finish his sentence in jail.” - BFI.
Aug 1936
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
Mar 1941
The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.
Sep 1937
Feb 1938
Mar 1933
An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
Jul 1937
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
Sep 1936
“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Dec 1937
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
May 1949
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily, she meets a handsome, well-spoken Englishman Peter Millett (Hulbert), who falls in love with her and proposes marriage. Under the impression that he is a man of means, she readily accepts, imagining an entrée to English high society. The couple return to England and Mamie discovers to her horror that not only is her new home a decrepit farmhouse out in the sticks, but that Peter is a widower and his three children also come as part of the package.
“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.
Jan 1938
“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Jun 1938
Aug 1938
Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
Dec 1936
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
May 1935
“Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
Nov 1935
Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.
“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
Jun 1937
“Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.” - Steve Crook