Movies: Herbert Wilcox

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar....

A Lady adopts a runaway slum girl who resembles her own dead daughter....

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard....

A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them......

The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in l...

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A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls....

'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)...

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off th...

British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox.....

Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class....

Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France....

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent....

British crime film directed by Henry Edwards...

Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?...

King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, w...

A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings....

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private se...

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who p...

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. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy....