Movies: Gibb McLaughlin

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn'...

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to tu...

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936....

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention....

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars....

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England....

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician a...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles....

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it la...

When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady....

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...

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie...

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard....

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home....

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case....

American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue. The company runs out of money, and it looks as though Mamie and her dancing colleagues are going to be stranded in Europe with no way home. Luckily...

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter....

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her...

Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?...

A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter....