Syd Courtenay

Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idle scamp - and her marriage to his uncle, the family benefactor.

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Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before with a big party. A great assortment of characters, comic ones, are all expecting to get their share of the inheritance.

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The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

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Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!

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This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!

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A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!

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Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.

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A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.

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A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.

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While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

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When their ship arrives in an Arabian port, the sailors are given shore leave among them Bill Biggles, who has previously had little success with women. Visiting a sheik who has long been under obligation to him, Bill is welcomed at the palace, and the polygamous ruler, who has abducted a damsel, decides to absent himself and appoint Bill as his deputy. It seems Bill's luck is set to change dramatically until the wives decide to go on strike!

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In India, a British soldier saves the jeweled eye of a sacred idol.

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A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

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The niece of a mill-owner goes undercover in the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.

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A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.

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Based on the spectacular rise of bandleader and vaudevillian Harry Roy, this is the comic tale of a Ruritanian princess who elopes with a dance-band leader.

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A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.

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British comedy film directed by Leslie Pearce.

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A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

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A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.

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