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Basil Emmott (5 July 1894 – 23 January 1976) was a prolific English cinematographer with 190 films to his credit, active from the 1920s to the 1960s. Emmott's career started in the silent era and continued through to the mid-1960s. His most prolific decade was the 1930s, when he was involved with almost 120 films, many of which were produced by noted documentary film-maker John Grierson. Emmott worked mainly in the field of quota quickies and B-movies. His output covered the entire spectrum of film genres, from comedy and musicals, through melodrama and thrillers, to crime and horror films. Directors Emmott worked with included Michael Powell, Arthur B. Woods, Val Guest and Lance Comfort.
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22 June 1940
Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing.
01 January 1938
The Viennese bride of a Scottish peer is driven away by suspicion and unfriendliness from his family.
21 June 1933
Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom.
23 July 1938
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
01 January 1938
“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.
03 July 1931
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
01 September 1933
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
01 October 1927
'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
28 October 1935
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
01 August 1935
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
01 March 1935
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
04 May 1940
A Film Directed by David MacDonald ....
26 August 1963
Meet Ellen Sheppard, an American living in Britain. Her English husband, Jason Sheppard, has been killed and she's under suspicion despite the appearance of a happy marriage.
10 November 1955
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
01 December 1932
A gang of criminals masquerading as ghosts are eventually exposed.
01 January 1964
Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife.
29 September 1955
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and France, with a mid-channel rendezvous.
07 July 1963
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
13 December 1935
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
01 January 1933
Investigation into the murder of a village squire.
01 January 1961
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
19 July 1937
An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
01 September 1937
American chorus-girl Mamie Wallace (Farrell) travels to Paris with a ramshackle touring musical revue.
26 April 1940
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
08 September 1932
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
08 April 1935
“Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.
15 November 1929
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
01 January 1933
A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
22 July 1932
Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs.
17 May 1939
A valet thinks his master is a murder, and tries a little blackmail.
30 September 1930
A Musical film Directed by Oscar M. Sheridan.
30 September 1923
In Scotland, a young man, Lochinvar insists on marrying Ellen, the woman he loves in spite of the fact that she is betrothed to another.
27 August 1930
Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic.
11 January 1943
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
31 August 1922
A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
22 March 1932
A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.
30 September 1936
“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave.
01 December 1953
Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
01 September 1931
A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
04 September 1956
When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
01 January 1961
A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
01 September 1935
Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
23 June 1963
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
07 September 1940
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his sr
12 November 1934
“The reconciliation of a divorced couple following the publisher husband's marriage to his secretary.
01 May 1962
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
04 March 1941
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
18 October 1960
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes.
01 May 1965
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
20 August 1947
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
01 November 1933
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
01 December 1938
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
08 September 1937
A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne.
01 October 1961
When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks.
16 October 1938
An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.
10 December 1934
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
