Eliot Makeham Trailers
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Total trailers found: 93
12 February 1937
Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love.
02 February 1954
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts.
28 May 1940
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers.
25 September 1953
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries.
07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
24 August 1942
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people.
01 November 1938
George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force.
23 December 1937
When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus.
07 March 1939
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man.
13 December 1935
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
10 September 1937
Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer.
01 January 1940
In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room.
27 September 1952
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s.
15 June 1940
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion.
05 January 1937
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left.
26 April 1940
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.
25 August 1944
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.
29 October 1949
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
01 January 1953
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
01 January 1935
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
01 March 1938
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well.
01 November 1933
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road.
19 June 1947
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
22 July 1940
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good.
02 December 1938
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr.
02 December 1940
George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules.
01 January 1944
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered.
29 June 1942
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world.
30 November 1951
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
30 June 1936
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods.
15 November 1941
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London.
06 June 1949
A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.
20 July 1940
A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council.
09 December 1934
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
09 January 1937
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights.
31 July 1944
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).
27 August 1935
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
01 December 1938
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
01 February 1949
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
08 June 1936
In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star.
31 October 1932
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
18 May 1948
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
30 November 1953
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
15 October 1945
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
11 October 1948
The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
04 September 1956
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley.
01 March 1939
An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot.
28 February 1949
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner).
12 March 1947
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
01 January 1937
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back.
02 November 1940
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
31 August 1940
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
10 March 1947
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
13 June 1933
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in.
21 August 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
09 March 1940
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
20 July 1936
Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets.
10 October 1950
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.