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Henry Francis Maltby (25 November 1880 – 25 October 1963) was a prolific writer for the London stage and British cinema from after the First World War until the 1950s. He also appeared in many films.
Total trailers found: 76
30 December 1936
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare.
09 July 1934
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
09 August 1942
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
28 November 1953
Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major.
31 May 1943
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller.
18 September 1939
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
01 January 1939
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances.
31 October 1938
The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress.
12 June 1934
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father.
11 May 1936
A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him.
26 April 1934
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress.
20 October 1935
A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.
16 February 1942
Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
01 March 1937
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
01 July 1933
On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.
01 November 1936
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
09 February 1937
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures.
04 February 1946
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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 January 1939
Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement.
10 August 1936
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 later.
01 February 1936
A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.
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.
04 October 1936
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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.
20 June 1934
An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair.
01 December 1938
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election.
01 March 1936
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands.
04 March 1939
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company.
11 December 1945
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
26 August 1934
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
11 February 1935
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
26 January 1938
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie.
17 February 1937
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
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.
30 September 1936
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
10 November 1939
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
29 October 1934
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy.
08 August 1937
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse.
01 November 1936
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
09 March 1940
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
23 August 1937
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
06 October 1938
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
12 December 1936
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman.
20 March 1937
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
21 August 1944
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
06 October 1935
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first.
01 January 1937
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
22 December 1937
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
01 January 1936
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
02 March 1942
Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.
30 April 1936
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number".
13 June 1938
Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates.
29 June 1942
Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.
27 February 1914
A young heiress was wooed and won by a man whom she believed would make her happy. She told of her engagement to her uncle, who was also her guardian, and was pleased and surprised when he interposed no objection.
02 May 1935
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
