Movies: William Luff

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future....

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. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonis...

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London....

One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy....

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings....

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1...

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man....

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money....

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvon...

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man....

Propaganda short showing how London is coping with World War II....

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has l...

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....

The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. ...

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman....

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household....

Part of BFI collection "Design for Today."...

An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster....

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets,...

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott...