A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
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Dorothy Bartlam
Kitty Vickery
Lester Matthews
Gerald Vickery
Joan Marion
Goldie
Jack Raine
Jim Hanley
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Toots
A comedy film directed by George King.
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A plot is afoot by sinister forces to kidnap Ludwig, and Jim becomes caught up in the drama. After the child is abducted Jim uses all his ingenuity, including cross-dressing as a Countess and becoming involved in a car chase, to rescue him from his captors.
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.
A musical film directed by Fred Paul
A crime film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon...
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating murders linked to a mysterious callbox, likely involving suspects from a will, with a newspaper woman assisting and uncovering deeper secrets behind the apparent financial motives.
A King’s Messenger has important documents stolen by a female spy. The plot follows the messenger’s uncle as he takes action to track down the culprit, retrieve the papers, and unmask the spy.
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
Two shady concert promoters get into hot water when their chance to book a superstar rapper goes awry.
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they've ever known to close, the trio sets out to raise $830,000 in one month. Out in the world for the very first time, the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot and find stardom on a TV reality show.
John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Two friends are drawn into a seedy underworld of extortion and violence when they try to blackmail a gang of bank robbers.
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is taken hostage in a stickup at the local Sip and Zip.
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
