Hal Gordon
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Old Mother Riley Detective
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market.
Millions Like Us
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
Let George Do It!
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Trouble Brewing
George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
Come on George!
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
It's in the Air
A case of mistaken identity leads to accident-prone George Brown (George Formby) entering the Royal Air Force and falling in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter.
Keep Fit
A weak, cowardly barber (George Formby) gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working-class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
No Escape
For a bet a man attempts to hide his friend for a month. The police soon believe he has murdered him.
Keep Your Seats, Please!
Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at hand when George is left a fortune by his old auntie, but unfortunately his inheritance is hidden inside a chair which has already been auctioned off!
Play Up the Band
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
Dandy Dick
A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.
Captain Bill
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
The Outcast
When the box-office manager takes off with all the money belonging to a traveling theatre-troupe, the show's promoters and leading performers, Bill Potter and Jim Truman, have to sell off of the show's assets to a theatre in Newcastle in order to pay the actors.
The Great Defender
Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has taken its toll and if Sir Douglas does not take off for several months he stands a good chance of dying soon.
Lost in the Legion
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
A Political Party
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
Their Night Out
Silly ass Jimmy (Claude Hulbert) gets drunk in a nightclub, and is then confused with the leader of a gang of robbers.
The Pride of the Force
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!
Let Me Explain, Dear
A man tries to fake an accident in order to claim insurance money, but things soon go awry.
Crime on the Hill
Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
The Last Coupon
A frugal coal miner in the north of England turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools.
Old Spanish Customers
Bill, a bumbling, dim-witted fellow and his shrewish wife win a holiday to Spain at a Whist tournament. Along the way, he and a famous Matador named Tormito get into an altercation, leaving Bill in the bullfighter's clothes. Seperated from his wife, he's taken for Tormito by the natives, and forced into a match at the local arena.
Money Talks
Comedy of Jewish domestic life depicts an impecunious old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need. He begins to gamble with his savings, but things don't seem to work in his favor.
Lucky Girl
Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun.
Josser in the Army
Charting the military escapades of serial bungler Tommy Josser, Josser in the Army sees the hapless hero in France during wartime, where he masquerades as a German general, unmasks a spy, gets captured and then makes a spectacular airborne escape!
His Wife's Mother
Recently married Henry is accused by his mother-in-law of seeing a showgirl, the ex-girlfriend of a close friend. Manservant Joy (Gus McNaughton) attempts to help matters with a scheme involving Henry posing as his own double.
Brother Alfred
After a drunken binge, George is accused of assaulting a prince. When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble.