Movies: Manning Whiley

  • 1941
    'Pimpernel' Smith

    'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)

    'Pimpernel' Smith

    7.11941HD

    Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of th...

    'Pimpernel' Smith
  • 1947
    The Shop at Sly Corner

    The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)

    The Shop at Sly Corner

    6.21947HD

    The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is ...

    The Shop at Sly Corner
  • 1940
    Contraband

    Contraband (1940)

    Contraband

    6.91940HD

    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operatin...

    Contraband
  • 1947
    Uncle Silas

    Uncle Silas (1947)

    Uncle Silas

    5.81947HD

    Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance....

    Uncle Silas
  • 1945
    The Seventh Veil

    The Seventh Veil (1945)

    The Seventh Veil

    6.41945HD

    A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory....

    The Seventh Veil
  • 1940
    Pastor Hall

    Pastor Hall (1940)

    Pastor Hall

    7.61940HD

    The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villager...

    Pastor Hall
  • 1941
    Old Bill and Son

    Old Bill and Son (1941)

    Old Bill and Son

    6.51941HD

    Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing ...

    Old Bill and Son
  • 1945
    Meet Sexton Blake

    Meet Sexton Blake (1945)

    Meet Sexton Blake

    5.51945HD

    The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid....

    Meet Sexton Blake
  • 1943
    The Dummy Talks

    The Dummy Talks (1943)

    The Dummy Talks

    4.71943HD

    An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance....

    The Dummy Talks
  • 1941
    The Saint's Vacation

    The Saint's Vacation (1941)

    The Saint's Vacation

    5.51941HD

    While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box....

    The Saint's Vacation
  • 1941
    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)

    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    6.61941HD

    Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert ...

    The Ghost of St. Michael's
  • 1941
    Freedom Radio

    Freedom Radio (1941)

    Freedom Radio

    6.31941HD

    Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to...

    Freedom Radio
  • 1941
    Gasbags

    Gasbags (1941)

    Gasbags

    5.51941HD

    It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is no...

    Gasbags
  • 1946
    Teheran

    Teheran (1946)

    Teheran

    01946HD

    A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II....

    Teheran
  • 1941
    Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

    Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light (1941)

    Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

    01941HD

    Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter....

    Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
  • 1939
    The Four Just Men

    The Four Just Men (1939)

    The Four Just Men

    6.21939HD

    The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots....

    The Four Just Men
  • 1940
    Saloon Bar

    Saloon Bar (1940)

    Saloon Bar

    6.51940HD

    A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man....

    Saloon Bar
  • 1940
    Sailors Three

    Sailors Three (1940)

    Sailors Three

    7.21940HD

    Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious b...

    Sailors Three
  • 1939
    Design for Murder

    Design for Murder (1939)

    Design for Murder

    5.81939HD

    When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, thro...

    Design for Murder
  • 1940
    The Flying Squad

    The Flying Squad (1940)

    The Flying Squad

    61940HD

    Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London....

    The Flying Squad