Fred Groves

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.

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Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.

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War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

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Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

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A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

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At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to rescue those remaining alive.

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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.

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Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.

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Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

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Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.

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London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

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A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury

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A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.

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Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!

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“Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.

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A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

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When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.

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'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)

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A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.

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Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.

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A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

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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.

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During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.

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Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

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A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.

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A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.

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The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).

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A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.

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A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.

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A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.

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Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.

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A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.

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A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.

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A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?

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A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.

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A comedy feature with Fred Groves having dual roles of bridegroom and a lunatic, and in the course of the film the two characters swap places.

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