Eliot Makeham Movies

  • 1940
    Busman's Honeymoon

    Busman's Honeymoon

    Busman's Honeymoon

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    When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

    Busman's Honeymoon
  • 1941
    The Common Touch

    The Common Touch

    The Common Touch

    6.3331941HD

    On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want...

    The Common Touch
  • 1934
    Unfinished Symphony

    Unfinished Symphony

    Unfinished Symphony

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    Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in...

    Unfinished Symphony
  • 1938
    Vessel of Wrath

    Vessel of Wrath

    Vessel of Wrath

    6.71938HD

    Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

    Vessel of Wrath
  • 1933
    Friday the Thirteenth

    Friday the Thirteenth

    Friday the Thirteenth

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    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...

    Friday the Thirteenth
  • 1935
    Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

    Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

    Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

    6.51935HD

    Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

    Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
  • 1954
    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    The Weak and the Wicked

    6.3641954HD

    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....

    The Weak and the Wicked
  • 1938
    Darts Are Trumps

    Darts Are Trumps

    Darts Are Trumps

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    Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an...

    Darts Are Trumps
  • 1944
    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie

    Champagne Charlie

    5.5561944HD

    A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

    Champagne Charlie
  • 1940
    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    Return to Yesterday

    6.21940HD

    Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

    Return to Yesterday
  • 1944
    Give Us the Moon

    Give Us the Moon

    Give Us the Moon

    6.21944HD

    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...

    Give Us the Moon
  • 1940
    Just William

    Just William

    Just William

    61940HD

    A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...

    Just William
  • 1944
    Candles at Nine

    Candles at Nine

    Candles at Nine

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    A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he...

    Candles at Nine
  • 1953
    Meet Mr. Lucifer

    Meet Mr. Lucifer

    Meet Mr. Lucifer

    5.11953HD

    A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

    Meet Mr. Lucifer
  • 1938
    What Men Live By

    What Men Live By

    What Men Live By

    81938HD

    A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God.

    What Men Live By
  • 1950
    Trio

    Trio

    Trio

    6.31950HD

    W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

    Trio
  • 1935
    Her Last Affaire

    Her Last Affaire

    Her Last Affaire

    61935HD

    Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof...

    Her Last Affaire
  • 1951
    Green Grow the Rushes

    Green Grow the Rushes

    Green Grow the Rushes

    5.81951HD

    Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...

    Green Grow the Rushes
  • 1949
    Children of Chance

    Children of Chance

    Children of Chance

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    In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

    Children of Chance
  • 1948
    Daybreak

    Daybreak

    Daybreak

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    A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

    Daybreak