Loyalties
While a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.
Casts & Crew
Basil Rathbone
Heather Thatcher
Miles Mander
Joan Wyndham
Philip Strange
Alan Napier
Algernon West
Cecily Byrne
Athole Stewart
Patric Curwen
Marcus Barron
Ben Field
Griffith Humphreys
Patrick Waddington
Laurence Hanray
Arnold Lucy
Robert Mawdesley
Anthony Holles
Stafford Hilliard
Robert Coote
Aubrey Dexter
Maxine Sandra
Mike Johnson
Don MacKay
Also Directed by Thorold Dickinson
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
An African music student returns home and has to defeat the witch doctor who dominates his tribe and take them to healthier land. Three years in the making, Dickinson's film survived the loss of film-stock and equipment when a U-Boat sunk their ship en route to locations in Tanzania.
A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.
A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.
Documentary short directed by Sidney Cole and Thorold Dickinson.
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.
Also Directed by Basil Dean
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
Two women of different social backgrounds work together in a dressmakers.
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
A singer tries to find success
A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law. The first film produced by Associated Talking Pictures, which would eventually evolve into Ealing Studios.
A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.