John Longden

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to...

A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into...

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life...

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.

Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the...

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But...

Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.

A mystery thriller intended for US TV.

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.

David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and...

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.

A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make...

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his...

Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.

A humble girl's rise to fame.

Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps...

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

A showgirl who is wrongly accused of murdering her manager goes on the run to try to prove her innocence.

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by...

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a...

A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an...

An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a...

'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the...

An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is...

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of...

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in...

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a...

Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.

A British crime film directed by John Longden

A British crime film directed by John Longden

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer