Otto Crann
Jim
Tom
Henry
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
1931-10-19
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A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal.
A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.