Browse 78 movies from British & Dominions Film Corporation
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.
Jan 1935
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
Nov 1935
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
Aug 1935
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Jun 1932
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.
May 1931
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
Mar 1930
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
May 1935
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
Mar 1934
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Mar 1933
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
Aug 1930
A penniless Irishman becomes the business partner of an English aristocrat with a penchant for high-stakes gambling.
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
Dec 1936
Jul 1933
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
Jul 1932
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
Mar 1931
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
Apr 1929
A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
Mar 1932
An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.
Jul 1937