John Singer

A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money. (imdb)

Fond of the whip, the isolation chamber, straight jackets and starvation tactics, Squire Meadows is the sadistic governor of a Victorian prison who relishes making the lives of his prisoners a torturous hell. He's also a dishonorable lecher scheming to marry Susan, a beautiful village girl. She's deeply in love with a poverty-stricken man, who is forced to work in far-away Australia so he can earn enough money to wed her. Meanwhile the evil squire coerces Susan into marrying him. (Oldies.com)

Erich Kästner's beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil's adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer - once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable - playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a policeman who longs to join a circus, the other a farm hand who wants to be a policeman!

Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain.

In a North of England training camp, lovestruck Corporal Kenyon (Harry Kemble) is framed and demoted in rank by a rival in love for the affections of the Adjutant's daughter. Four friends rally round to help clear the Corporal's name.

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 French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.

Anton (Frank Vosper) is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences. Also starring Lessee Perrin and Margaret Vines.

Family ties are strained as grown up offspring start to leave the nest.

A gang of boys, working as page-boys in a hotel, bring a crooked manager to book.

Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.

Pandemonium is created in a home when relatives come to stay.

An opera troupe travels to Monte Carlo where they have been engaged to perform Tosca. During the trip Mario, the tenor, finds a stowaway girl hidden in his cabin and helps her get a passage. Then the Monte Carlo opera owner turns the company down but is willing to know her better, quickly warming Mario's temper.