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- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJessie MatthewsA.W. BaskcombBasil SydneySir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
- DirectorSinclair HillStarsViolet LoraineGordon HarkerKay HammondThe owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsHenry KendallJohn MillsVictor StanleyWhen 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 an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph.
- DirectorBernard VorhausStarsEva MooreFrank VosperJohn StuartWhen Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
- DirectorHenry EdwardsStarsLyn HardingJohn MillsLeslie PerrinsThe father is rightly pound of the fact that he's a self-made man. He's worked hard to earn his money & power. His son is a lazy playboy and the father is far from happy with him.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsLeslie FullerHal GordonMoore MarriottA chimney-sweep's son is persuaded into helping an opponent in a by-election.
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsHelga MorayMichael HoganJohn MillsIn a drama of treachery, intrigue, and love beside the dark waters of the Thames, two men come together in the sinister shadows of Dockland. The paths of the international criminal and a fighting sea Captain, who rules his ship with an iron-hand, had crossed before, but this time there was to be a final reckoning in which only one man would emerge victoriously in a winner-take-all battle.
- DirectorThomas BentleyStarsWill HayIris HoeyAngela BaddeleyA farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play "The Magistrate", in which the son of a stern magistrate visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long, all of the characters are trying not to avoid each other.
- DirectorNorman LeeStarsLeslie FullerJohn MillsMarguerite AllanBill Blake, a jovial con man is known to friends and his son as a travelling salesman, but in reality, operates a phony medicine show, complete with singing, a monkey, and audience shills. His son Ronnie has studied to become a doctor and internes at a nearby hospital. The boy's love interest is a nurse there, but his rival is anxious to expose his father as a market quack to ruin him.
- DirectorGraham CuttsAustin MelfordStarsJohn MillsMark LesterNorah HowardA pretty young factory worker is window-shopping at a Rolls-Royce dealership, and dreamily mentions that she would love to have a car like that. The son of the factory's owner happens to be there and, falling for her, winds up buying the car for her. He doesn't tell her who he is, but he doesn't know that she is one of his father's employees. Complications ensue.
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsJohn MillsJune ClydeDerek Oldham
- DirectorHerbert BrenonW.P. KellinoNorman LeeStarsMarie LohrHermione BaddeleyRobert HaleThrough the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the previous twenty-five years, to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. It depicts incidents starting with his coronation. and on through political problems, woman suffrage, strikes, trade expansion, World War I, and the depression, while also showing the changes in living style and progression.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsBetty BalfourJohn MillsBarry MacKayIn 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
- DirectorHerbert MasonStarsJohn MillsLilli PalmerBernard Nedell
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsNova PilbeamCedric HardwickeJohn MillsA dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted), to her brief reign as monarch of England, and finally to her beheading. This movie portrays her as an innocent set up for the slaughter, while the scheming courtiers and pretenders to the throne barely pay her mind, as they stab each other in the back in their attempts to gain power and influence.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsWallace FordJohn MillsAnna LeeTwo soldier friends vie for the affections of the Sergeant Major's daughter, against a background of military pomp and adventure.
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsJohn MillsRene RayRobert NewtonA young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.
- DirectorWalter FordeStarsEdmund GwennJohn MillsFrank LawtonA typical English family sit down to eat, and discuss the prospect of war.
- DirectorSam WoodSidney FranklinStarsRobert DonatGreer GarsonTerry KilburnAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
- DirectorJohn Paddy CarstairsStarsJohn MillsLeueen MacGrathEliot MakehamThis propaganda short illustrates the danger of careless talk by naval men. It demonstrates how a sailor's talk of recall is overheard by a waitress who ultimately betrays his ship to a U-boat.
- DirectorIan DalrympleStarsMorland GrahamJohn MillsMary ClareWorld War I veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.
- DirectorAnthony AsquithStarsLeslie BanksAlastair SimJeanne De CasalisAllied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
- DirectorCharles FrendStarsWill HayBernard MilesJohn StuartWartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
- DirectorBasil DeardenWill HayStarsWill HayJohn MillsBasil SydneyProfessor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing as an economics expert seconded to the trade delegation. The professor must find the real economist and expose the agent.
- DirectorNoël CowardStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard MilesThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.