Ian Wilson Movies

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s...

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who...

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

A man on the run from a gang of criminals makes a series of increasingly panicked calls from a phone booth.

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of...

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from...

Quota quickie comic short from Britain that is now lost.

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.

A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to...