A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.

'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)

A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister