Jimmy Godden Movies

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Basil Sydney

A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Clyde

Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as...

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Cast: Joseph Schmidt

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bobby Howes

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 – with comic...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bobby Howes

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sally Blane

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Genre: Music

Cast: George Formby

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matheson Lang

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marian Dawson

'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clifford Mollison

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

This exuberant comedy about Jewish domestic life tells the story of an old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need, and who thus...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Julian Rose

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Will Hay

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Aileen Marson

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.

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Cast: Stanley Lupino

The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Otto Kruger

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Greta Nissen

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs...

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Cast: Joseph Schmidt

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German...

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Cast: Gitta Alpár

A Student's Romance was based on the operetta I Lost My Heart in Heidelburg, which in turn owed a lot to that old chestnut The Student Prince. In...

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Cast: Grete Natzler

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

A Musical film Directed by Oscar M. Sheridan.

Genre: Music

Cast: Frances Day

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Cast: Henry Kendall

A telephonist falls for her employer.

Genre: Music

Cast: Clifford Mollison