Old British Comdies

An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.

After a millionaire practical joker dies, his fortune is divided among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

After a mix-up at a music hall, a henpecked bank clerk who lives a dreary existence in suburban London finds himself onstage with ambiguously foreign magician Mendoza, who hypnotizes him into losing all of his inhibitions.

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.

In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.

A group of young people are having a good time, when their parents return home unexpectedly from holiday.

On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.

A British petty criminal lies to his son about his frequent prison terms by inventing honorable plausible explanations for his absences from home, but things get complicated when his son becomes a judge's assistant.

Disgruntled soldiers posted to British-ruled Darawa unexpectedly find a secret entrance to the King's harem, complicating their mission.

In World War II, a failed British officer is selected by his uncle, a brigadier with the War Office, to participate in a secret operation to recover looted artwork from the Germans.

Roger Thursby is just starting out as a barrister, full of ideals, but he is a bit too keen in the opinion of his fellow lawyers.

They 'do' clean offices. After finding an important piece of paper in the trash, the women are soon in business and make good use of it to save their old neighbourhood from the wreckers' ball.

The near-bankrupt Earl of Locharne must contend with a government agent trying to requisition his ancestral Scottish castle, a beautiful American woman who wants to buy the place--and the resident ghost.

A gang of criminals win a marriage agency during a card game and plan to use it to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.

When in a storm a crane collapses and a bus crashes we see flashbacks of the passengers' lives leading up to that accident with two casualties: young and old couples, love, infidelity, business, blackmail and other crooked schemes.

Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.

Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.

Reg is a scientist who invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.

Newly arrived Army chaplin Captain Paris (Alastair Sim) attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers.

Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.