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Leslie Stephenson Hiscott was an English film director and screenwriter who made over sixty films between 1925 and 1956. He was born in London in 1894. He directed Alibi, the first ever depiction of Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective, with Austin Trevor in the lead role.
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01 January 1955
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner.
01 June 1935
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught.
29 July 1935
A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
24 August 1931
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings.
16 July 1931
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion.
29 November 1943
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house.
15 November 1929
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
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.
05 February 1930
Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.
01 September 1934
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
09 April 1956
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
18 February 1932
A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.
26 December 1937
A Scottish shop-girl gets mixed up with crooks then has to pose as the mistress of the Crown Prince of Boravia.
28 April 1931
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
01 May 1933
Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst demonstrating the cleaner.
18 October 1932
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
01 September 1942
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting.
18 May 1944
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film tells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort.
14 April 1935
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.
26 March 1935
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
06 October 1935
The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first.
22 October 1934
The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train.
21 April 1931
The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting difficulties so she obtains money from her husband to help him.
01 February 1935
British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
16 March 1932
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
24 March 1935
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
30 November 1930
Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.
01 December 1927
'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
12 February 1932
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
01 June 1933
A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.
05 January 1942
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign.
01 November 1929
'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
24 March 1930
In Dijon, Inspector Hanaud investigates Betty Harlowe after her uncle, Boris Waberski, accuses her of poisoning her wealthy aunt for an inheritance.
01 March 1935
At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
15 February 1931
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
07 September 1942
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
21 September 1937
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
04 November 1933
Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company.
