Walter C. Mycroft Movies

Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.

The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child...

An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just...

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...

A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.

A newlywed has a trying time proving his innocence when his mother-in-law catches him kissing another girl!

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay...

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the...

A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..

In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience...

A telephonist falls for her employer.

A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror...

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...

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper...

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)