Movies: John Singer

  • 1953
    The Cruel Sea

    The Cruel Sea (1953)

    The Cruel Sea

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    At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing surviv...

    The Cruel Sea
  • 1942
    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve (1942)

    In Which We Serve

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    The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country...

    In Which We Serve
  • 1936
    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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    It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most...

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • 1939
    Q Planes

    Q Planes (1939)

    Q Planes

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    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 aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as t...

    Q Planes
  • 1934
    Waltzes from Vienna

    Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

    Waltzes from Vienna

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    Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl gets jealous when a contessa asks Strauss Jr. to write a waltz for her....

    Waltzes from Vienna
  • 1934
    Something Always Happens

    Something Always Happens (1934)

    Something Always Happens

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    Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and become...

    Something Always Happens
  • 1935
    Emil and the Detectives

    Emil and the Detectives (1935)

    Emil and the Detectives

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    Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been res...

    Emil and the Detectives
  • 1954
    Forbidden Cargo

    Forbidden Cargo (1954)

    Forbidden Cargo

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    Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team....

    Forbidden Cargo
  • 1936
    Tudor Rose

    Tudor Rose (1936)

    Tudor Rose

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    The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed....

    Tudor Rose
  • 1933
    Facing The Music

    Facing The Music (1933)

    Facing The Music

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    A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!...

    Facing The Music
  • 1933
    The Pride of the Force

    The Pride of the Force (1933)

    The Pride of the Force

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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 pol...

    The Pride of the Force
  • 1942
    Somewhere in Camp

    Somewhere in Camp (1942)

    Somewhere in Camp

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    Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail - until a hero is revealed and the sergeant masquerades as a housekeeper!...

    Somewhere in Camp
  • 1929
    High Treason

    High Treason (1929)

    High Treason

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    The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert....

    High Treason
  • 1932
    Looking on the Bright Side

    Looking on the Bright Side (1932)

    Looking on the Bright Side

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    Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period....

    Looking on the Bright Side
  • 1936
    The Amateur Gentleman

    The Amateur Gentleman (1936)

    The Amateur Gentleman

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    A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the...

    The Amateur Gentleman
  • 1934
    My Old Dutch

    My Old Dutch (1934)

    My Old Dutch

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    Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a s...

    My Old Dutch
  • 1935
    Dandy Dick

    Dandy Dick (1935)

    Dandy Dick

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    The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings o...

    Dandy Dick
  • 1942
    Front Line Kids

    Front Line Kids (1942)

    Front Line Kids

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    Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating....

    Front Line Kids
  • 1932
    Jack's the Boy

    Jack's the Boy (1932)

    Jack's the Boy

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    With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his...

    Jack's the Boy
  • 1935
    Royal Cavalcade

    Royal Cavalcade (1935)

    Royal Cavalcade

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    Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of ind...

    Royal Cavalcade