Hal Gordon

Hal Gordon

Born: April 16, 1894
Died: January 1, 1946
in London, England, UK

Movies for Hal Gordon...

I'll Turn to You
Title: I'll Turn to You
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1946
Type: Movie
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
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Millions Like Us
Title: Millions Like Us
Character: M.C at Dance
Released: June 1, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Old Mother Riley Detective
Title: Old Mother Riley Detective
Character: Bill
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
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. As the office charwoman, Old Mother Riley's fingerprints are all over the safe, and she becomes the police's number one suspect. To prove her innocence, Mother Riley turns detective, adopting various methods and disguises to track down the villains.
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We’ll Smile Again
Title: We’ll Smile Again
Character: Customer
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Builder's Labourer (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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Spare a Copper
Title: Spare a Copper
Character: Sergeant
Released: December 2, 1940
Type: Movie
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.
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Let George Do It!
Title: Let George Do It!
Character: Alf Arbuckle, Dinky Do
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Food for Thought
Title: Food for Thought
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).
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Come on George!
Title: Come on George!
Character: Stableboy
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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
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Trouble Brewing
Title: Trouble Brewing
Character: Brewery Truck Driver
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
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It's in the Air
Title: It's in the Air
Character: Nobby Clark, mechanic
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerizing and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
Title: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Character: Sergeant
Released: February 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
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East of Ludgate Hill
Title: East of Ludgate Hill
Character: Bert Bickley
Released: December 23, 1937
Type: Movie
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Keep Fit
Title: Keep Fit
Character: Reporter
Released: July 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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Dusty Ermine
Title: Dusty Ermine
Character: Det. Sergeant Helmsley
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: County Constable
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
A crime novelist stages an imaginative prank to prove that the perfect murder is possible but finds it has catastrophic consequences.
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One Good Turn
Title: One Good Turn
Character: Bert
Released: October 11, 1936
Type: Movie
In this comedy a pair of aspiring music hall entertainers attempt to live their dream while saving their landlady's daughter from ruin.
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Queen of Hearts
Title: Queen of Hearts
Character: Stage Manager
Released: October 4, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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The Man Behind the Mask
Title: The Man Behind the Mask
Character: Sergeant
Released: August 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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Keep Your Seats, Please
Title: Keep Your Seats, Please
Character: Sailor
Released: August 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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! Can George and his chums track down his rightful due before his grasping solicitor (Alastair Sim, in an early film appearance) snatches the lot? It's hard to say, but he still finds time to perform both the title song and the classic 'When I'm Cleaning Windows'.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Title: The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Character: Bill Bronson
Released: July 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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Captain Bill
Title: Captain Bill
Character: Tim
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
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Play Up the Band
Title: Play Up the Band
Character: Band Leader
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
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Invitation To The Waltz
Title: Invitation To The Waltz
Character: Sergeant
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Nick Larkin
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Deputy Drummer
Title: The Deputy Drummer
Character: Yokel
Released: September 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs.
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Dance Band
Title: Dance Band
Character: Spike, Lewis' thug
Released: July 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Life gets complicated for bandleader Buddy when he falls for his greatest rival – the leader of an all-girl dance band!
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18 Minutes
Title: 18 Minutes
Character: Osso
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Dandy Dick
Title: Dandy Dick
Character: Mullins
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
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The Great Defender
Title: The Great Defender
Character: Percival Brown
Released: November 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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The Outcast
Title: The Outcast
Character: Jim Truman
Released: October 29, 1934
Type: Movie
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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My Song Goes Round the World
Title: My Song Goes Round the World
Character: Stage Manger
Released: September 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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Lost In The Legion
Title: Lost In The Legion
Character: Alf
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!
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A Political Party
Title: A Political Party
Character: Alf Jenks
Released: July 9, 1934
Type: Movie
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.
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A Southern Maid
Title: A Southern Maid
Character: Pedro
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
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Crime on the Hill
Title: Crime on the Hill
Character: Sgt. Granger
Released: December 27, 1933
Type: Movie
In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
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Happy
Title: Happy
Character: Conjuror
Released: December 11, 1933
Type: Movie
A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.
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Radio Parade
Title: Radio Parade
Character: Garage Mechanic
Released: October 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Radio Parade (1933) is a variety film featuring such stars of the time as Clapham and Dwyer, Gert and Daisy, Reginald Gardiner, Florence Desmond, and Roy Fox.
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Hawleys of High Street
Title: Hawleys of High Street
Character: Nichols
Released: June 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.
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Let Me Explain, Dear
Title: Let Me Explain, Dear
Character: Parrott
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
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Their Night Out
Title: Their Night Out
Character: Sgt. Bert Simpson
Released: March 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Facing The Music
Title: Facing The Music
Character: Sim
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
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The Pride of the Force
Title: The Pride of the Force
Character: Dick Smith
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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!
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: PC
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Pug Wilson
Released: November 15, 1932
Type: Movie
This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus begins to gamble spectacularly with his savings.
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Sleepless Nights
Title: Sleepless Nights
Character: Gendarme
Released: November 7, 1932
Type: Movie
A journalist is sent to the South of France to interview a reclusive millionaire..He offers his hotel bedroom to the millionaires daughter to use to avoid her boyfriend,who is actually a crook, His boss arrives unexpectedly and as there is no other room available expects to share the hotel room with him, he explains the situation by saying he had just married the girl.Obviously lots of comedic situations arise because of this.
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Title: Lord Camber's Ladies
Character: Stage Manager
Released: October 27, 1932
Type: Movie
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
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Josser in the Army
Title: Josser in the Army
Character: Parker
Released: October 11, 1932
Type: Movie
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!
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His Wife's Mother
Title: His Wife's Mother
Character: Munro
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!
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Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Title: Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Character: Hoodlum
Released: September 26, 1932
Type: Movie
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
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Old Spanish Customers
Title: Old Spanish Customers
Character: Manuelito
Released: September 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
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Indiscretions of Eve
Title: Indiscretions of Eve
Character: Simms
Released: September 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
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The Strangler
Title: The Strangler
Character: Leveridge
Released: July 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime film directed by Norman Lee
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Tin Gods
Title: Tin Gods
Released: July 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer
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The Last Coupon
Title: The Last Coupon
Character: Rusty Walker
Released: July 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!
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Jack's the Boy
Title: Jack's the Boy
Character: Man with scarf at accident
Released: June 11, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Lucky Girl
Title: Lucky Girl
Character: Police Constable
Released: June 1, 1932
Type: Movie
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. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
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The Bad Companions
Title: The Bad Companions
Character: Natkie
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
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Brother Alfred
Title: Brother Alfred
Character: Harold Voles
Released: April 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself 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...
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The New Hotel
Title: The New Hotel
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring
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Partners Please
Title: Partners Please
Character: Waiter
Released: March 31, 1932
Type: Movie
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
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A Night Like This
Title: A Night Like This
Character: Taxi Driver(uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
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Money for Nothing
Title: Money for Nothing
Character: Waiter
Released: January 20, 1932
Type: Movie
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Title: Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Character: Smiler
Released: December 26, 1931
Type: Movie
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
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Out of the Blue
Title: Out of the Blue
Character: Videlop
Released: November 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
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Up for the Cup
Title: Up for the Cup
Character: Proprietor
Released: September 14, 1931
Type: Movie
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
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Bill and Coo
Title: Bill and Coo
Character: Harry, the stage manager
Released: August 14, 1931
Type: Movie
'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Poor Old Bill
Title: Poor Old Bill
Character: Jack
Released: June 22, 1931
Type: Movie
A man sponges off an old comrade from the First World War who believes he has saved his life during the war, although this ultimately proves not to be true.
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Title: Old Soldiers Never Die
Character: Recruit
Released: February 25, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Monty Banks.
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The Windjammer
Title: The Windjammer
Character: Alf
Released: September 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
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Adam's Apple
Title: Adam's Apple
Character: Drunk
Released: September 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.