A mill worker is plucked from obscurity and thrust towards fame and fortune when an ailing composer needs a singer to perform his work. Read More »
Tag Archives: John Stuart
Old Mother Riley’s Ghosts (1941) John Baxter, Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, John Stuart
A charwoman comes upon a plot to steal the invention of a man who lives in a haunted house. Read More »
Abdul the Damned (1935) Karl Grune, Fritz Kortner
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. Read More »
Hindle Wakes (1927) Maurice Elvey, Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week” Read More »
The Big Blockade (1942) Charles Frend, Will Hay, Bernard Miles, John Stuart
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war. Read More »
The Yacht of the Seven Sins AKA Die Yacht der sieben Sünden (1928) Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck, Brigitte Helm, John Stuart, Rina Marsa
After the talent agent who was booking entertainment for a strange ship is killed Read More »
Once a Thief (1935) George Pearson, John Stuart, Derek Gorst, Frederick Culley
A brilliant chemist’s plans to revolutionise the paint industry are put on hold when he is accused of theft. Read More »
Headline (1943) John Harlow, David Farrar, Anne Crawford, John Stuart, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Headline serves as a vehicle for handsome David Farrar, who in 1943 was Britain’s fastest-rising leading man. Farrar is cast as Broogle, a crime reporter who’ll do anything-ANYTHING-for a story. When the wife of the publisher disappears after witnessing a murder, Broogle ignores Scotland Yard’s warnings to “lay off” and endeavors to solve the mystery himself. The film’s best performance is rendered by BBC radio favorite Richard Goolden, cast as a self-styled “psychological” detective. While genuine journalists howled at the innacuracies in Headline, audiences ate it up.
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