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- A woman uses her windfall to open an illegal after-hours night club for her daughters' education, but her husband intervenes, causing conflicts and complicating matters.
- During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters.
- In 1949, when his former British war buddy is charged with murder, American lawyer Adam Hayward goes to England to see if he can help.
- Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
- After his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers.
- From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas's 1890's farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate's aunt from Brazil--"where the nuts come from." Notable mainly for Frank Loesser's score and Ray Bolger's spectacular dance to "Once in Love with Amy."
- A convict, just out of prison, is implicated in a murder and goes on the run, hitching a ride with a truck driver.
- A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
- A headstrong young girl falls completely for a writer of trashy novels, and insinuates herself into his household, all to the chagrin of her erstwhile fiancé.He conspires with the author's wife to show the girl how foolish she's been.
- A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
- In post- WW2 Britain, an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé, and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym attempt to bring black market organized crime to justice.
- A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
- This is a story about Mr. Cohen, a father who owns a large department store in London and cares about being a good shopkeeper and good person. Mr. Cohen's elder son and a friend's son work there and have slowly taken on more and more responsibility with the inadvertent result that Mr Cohen has begun to feel unimportant. Mr. Cohen longs to start over with a small shop to regain what he feels he has lost. One subplot involves Mr. Cohen's attempts to remain relevant by helping a small shopkeeper both before and after a major life event for the family. Another subplot involves his younger son's marriage decision and Mr. Cohen's involvement. Mr. Cohen ultimately takes a trip for distraction and looks at buying a small shop. Just in time to save the day, he realizes that he is needed at home after all.
- 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 becomes a great success.
- A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
- The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
- Mary, who is infatuated with her boss, discovers that he is having an affair with one of her coworkers. Despondent, she leaves work and overhearing news of a suicide, impulsively decides to drown herself in the river. She turns out to be an incompetent suicide, however, and while splashing about in the water, an apparently wealthy and dashing figure, Tony, drives up in his sports car and jumps in to save her. He takes her home to get her dry and to keep her from hurting herself--but his wealthy fiancee arrives and she assumes the worst and breaks off their engagement. Tony then reveals to Mary that he's broke, with only 300 pounds to his name. Now--each despondent--they both begin to talk of doing themselves in when tickets for Monte Carlo, which was to be his honeymoon destination, arrive. In a sudden bit of screwball inspiration, they decide to go to Monte Carlo and bet their little stake on an all or nothing bid to build a fortune for themselves. Its either win, or they both jump into the Mediterranean--a double suicide. Will fortune smile on this pair, or will it be into the drink for them?
- An English comedian attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer.
- An accountant is forced by circumstances to take a job at the racetrack. He is working at the betting window when he is drawn into a gang of criminals and their illegal schemes.
- When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance ...
- A maid finds herself in the middle of having to try to sort out the problems of the zany family she works for.
- Mayfair Girl is a 1933 British crime film directed by George King and starring Sally Blane, John Stuart and Glen Alyn. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Bros.
- Loder and Baxter become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
- A news correspondent and his photographer, on assignment in a country on the edge of revolution, identifies an attractive woman on a snap shot as the companion of a notorious illegal arms dealer, who has recently been reported as having committed suicide while on the run from agents wishing to track him down.
- An undercover policeman infiltrates a notorious ring of jewel thieves headed by a man no one has ever seen.
- A bankrupt publisher thinks all his troubles are over when he stumbles across a Brown Wallet containing 200 pounds. But he is implicated in the murder of his wealthy aunt ...
- In order to fool her guardian, a young Danish girl masquerades as a tomboy.
- A disgraced doctor has a chance to redeem himself when a diphtheria epidemic ravages the community, and one of its victims is his son.
- The owner of a small Italian restaurant in London is left a large amount of money by a long-lost relative, on the condition that he not talk or write for a month; otherwise the money will revert to the man's female relatives, who used to drive him crazy with their constant chattering. When the women find out about this, they set out to do everything they can to make sure he violates the terms of the will so they can get the money.
- Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.
- Bookseller David Gordon's new wife Marian has never met David's friend Bob but by telephone advises him on how to meet women by following the first attractive girl he sees. Unfortunately, the girl turns out to be Marian and Bob is arrested.
- When some important papers are stolen from the King's Messenger by a female spy, the messenger's uncle sets out to retrieve them and unmask the spy.
- A film studio is awaiting the arrival of its new owner, and the executives mistake an old actor for him. Complications ensue.
- Blanche is the interfering friend of a young married couple. When Peter, the husband, forgets their anniversary, to punish him Blanche persuades his wife to invent a secret lover.
- Two newlywed actors are driven to separation by their interfering parents.
- A noble child is kidnapped by a chimney sweep and saved by strolling players.
- On her honeymoon, a wife learns about her husband's shadowy past.
- An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.