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There Goes the Bride (1932) Albert de Courville, Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner
A businessman’s daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless Read More »
First a Girl (1935) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee
Elizabeth, a delivery girl, dreams of being a music-hall singer but she is refused at the first casting she takes part in. Read More »
Waltzes from Vienna (1934) Alfred Hitchcock, Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Jessie Matthews
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Read More »
The Good Companions (1933) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, John Gielgud, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Film musical taken from JB Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
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Friday the Thirteenth (1933) Victor Saville, Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked, Comedy, Drama
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus… Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman’s distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash – and past it, as some live and some die.
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