Claud Allister Trailers
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Claud Allister (3 October 1888 – 26 July 1970) was an English actor. After his education at Felsted, in Essex, he appeared in 74 films between 1929 and 1955.
He was born William Claud Michael Palmer in London, England and died in Santa Barbara, California. His interment was located in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.
He began his career as a stockbroker's clerk but gave it up and made his stage debut in 1910. He toured England playing minor parts till the war started. He served in WWI and in 1924 went to America to act on the stage. In 1929 he made his film debut where he featured in The Trial of Mary Dugan.
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24 March 1933
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
08 December 1932
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent.
13 September 1936
New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines.
31 May 1930
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
01 May 1937
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
28 January 1945
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes.
25 May 1930
Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however, the managing editor of the Times is determined to expose him.
06 June 1933
A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married.
10 August 1934
In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments.
30 September 1937
A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.
06 August 1945
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America.
10 January 1936
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.
20 May 1938
The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.
26 November 1953
A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew.
31 May 2004
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with.
26 July 1940
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood.
05 October 1949
The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car.
25 November 1938
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
02 April 1934
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father.
15 June 1938
Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find a husband.
03 April 1944
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
11 May 1936
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
17 August 1929
Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton).
10 May 1949
This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of a dapper, automobile loving fellow named Mr.
22 November 1937
A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.
15 March 1948
The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
09 March 1930
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
19 June 1941
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious.
26 May 1939
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
27 September 1932
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
28 November 1931
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him.
01 February 1934
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him.
21 October 1937
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
12 September 1931
A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.
22 February 1930
Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera.
17 August 1933
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
01 March 1932
A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.
03 January 1932
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.
02 September 1954
In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was.
27 August 1930
A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino.
31 January 1931
An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
01 August 1941
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
26 September 1941
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
02 May 1929
Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life.
31 October 1931
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways.
18 April 1952
American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a beautiful Red Cross volunteer, who arranges for their harrowing escape to Hong Kong.
16 April 1931
Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to arrive shortly from England.
12 December 1941
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
05 October 1955
A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.
17 August 1932
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
06 April 1930
A wealthy young club man is engaged to a senator’s daughter but becomes involved with a gang of blackmailers.
24 May 1940
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
19 April 1934
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
17 June 1938
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings.
08 September 1935
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan.
29 December 1930
Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic.
26 January 1930
The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover.
26 December 1931
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud.
02 August 1935
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired.
