Movies: Alfred Wellesley

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance....

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner...

Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner....

Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement....

Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel, a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped t...

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his ...

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy....

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket....

British drama film directed by Albert de Courville....

This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel w...

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured....

A gang of criminals plan to steal a valuable Burmese idol from a British museum but are foiled by the curator....

A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man....

A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring...