Brock Williams
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Director), 29 (Writer)
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This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started). (imdb)
Lighthearted romp of a pre-war spy story: quirky British secret service man finds out who's using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes. (imdb)
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there. (imdb)
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck the operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sergeant Wilkins will be transferred. Sub-plots include romances between Wilkins and Moon, Constable and Passworthy. (imdb)
A London taxi driver becomes involved with a gang of racketeers in an attempt to uncover the identity of his friend's killer.
In this war adventure, a wealthy American playboy decides to use his hobby, flying, for the good of the Allied cause during WW II after he learns about the bombing of London. As the U.S. was not yet in the war, he flies to England and joins the RAF. When his plane is damaged during a bombing raid over Berlin, the daring hero climbs out onto the wing of his plane and quickly repairs it. (allrovi.com)
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. (youtube.com)
A student comes under suspicion of murder when he discovers a dead body.
After being entered into a Channel swimming race by her boyfriend Paul (Derek Bond), Kitty (Joy Webster) goes missing. Another swimmer, Danny (Sheldon Lawrence), who had fallen for Kitty, is convinced she was murdered. His trainer Griff (John Ireland) and the police initially don't believe him but when Danny's own life comes under threat they realise there may be a killer on the loose. (DVD cover)
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. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the central character in several popular Peter Cheyney novels, in a stage play by Gerald Verner, and in the 1948 movie programmer Uneasy Terms, which top-billed Michael Rennie. Meet Mr. Callaghan stars Derrick DeMarney, no stranger to detective films, in the title role. In this "pilot" for a proposed Callaghan movie series, Slim is required to solve the death of a much-hated rich man. (allmovie.com)
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. (imdb)
In Edwardian England, a boozy wastrel buys a bicycle shop in order to impress an American heiress who's in love with his nephew. (Netflix)
A girl from an impoverished family is jilted by her rich fiance, whose father doesn't approve. She decides to take revenge against them, and determines to let nothing or no one stop her from getting to the top.
A beautiful ghetto girl works her fingers to the bone in hopes of escaping the oppressive poverty of her home.
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria. (imdb)
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. (Steve Crook)
Miller plays a fairground performer who meets a professor who claims to have invented a cheap substitute for petrol. They team up and persuade a millionaire to finance them to develop and market the product, while unsavoury elements are keen to steal the formula and try all means to get their hands on it, involving slapstick chases and double-crosses. It then turns out that the miracle fluid is diluted coconut oil, and the genius professor is an escaped lunatic.
A maid finds herself in the middle of having to try to sort out the problems of the zany family she works for.
The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
An artist's model is murdered. Police suspect her fiancé and his new lover. (IMBD.com)
A stuffy doctor and his psychologist wife fall out about how to bring up their son, who has outraged his father by drawing a biologically realistic horse on the wall.
George Westcott arrives in London from India to claim a sizeable inheritance, only to discover his grandfather's will is missing. A film star, a window cleaner and a police inspector help him defeat the disinherited branch of the family and find the will, but is George all he seems?
A country house, a patriarch, a fallout among siblings, a butler, a housemaid--and each of them have secrets: a perfect setting for a classic whodunnit.
Mystery writer Colin Knowles is separated from his wife Louie. When Louie's wealthy employer disappears, she asks him to help with the investigation.