Butcher's Film Service

Follows the development of the variety theatre from 1892 to the present day, centred on a family in show business.

A comedy short Directed by Castleton Knight,

A rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years

International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.

A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.

Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.

Ex-army private Randle stands to receive a substantial inheritance from his uncle if he can prove he is of sound mind. However, his devious cousin tries to grab the money by having Randle committed to a psychiatric home.

Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

Three sketches: Donovan and Byl perform comic acrobatics; Arnley and Gloria do a dance routine; Frank Randle plays an elderly shoe repairer.

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...

An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.

Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?

Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.

Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.

Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).