Walter Forde Movies

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Redgrave

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...

Genre: War

Cast: Bud Flanagan

An inventor who develops a tank that can be operated by remote control finds himself pursued by foreign agents who want the plans and the tank.

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A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Patrick Barr

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Handley

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Conrad Veidt

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...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hugh Sinclair

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna May Wong

Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

Walter makes a Movie was directed by Tom Seymour and Walter Forde in 1922. Forde plays a petty thief who steals from film star Pauline Highbrow...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

Walter wants work (1922) (Directed by and starring Walter Forde this stands as a good introduction to the work of the UK's only major comedian. This...

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Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Crawford

Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye. Since everybody's singing,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jimmy Durante

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jimmy O'Dea

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gordon Harker

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Ambrose

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Betty Balfour

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Lynn

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Arthur Wontner

Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special...

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Cast: Conrad Veidt

Lunatic British comedy about a small town mayor who finds himself the owner of a broken-down London theatre and acting school. Insanity run amok.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Handley

A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Crawford

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Summer 1939, and an ordinary family gets an alarming taste of war to come.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Cooper

Wait and See is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Frank Stanmore, Pauline Johnson and Sam Livesey.

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Cast: Walter Forde

Silent comedian Walter Forde takes an illuminating trip around the Osram light bulb factory.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Howes

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Rich

A newlywed couple have a fight, and in order to get even with one another, each decides to take up with a lover but without actually going through...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Baxter

A crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Stewart Rome

A crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Stewart Rome

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bobby Howes

Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Patric Curwen

To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mabel Poulton

A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mabel Poulton

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A car salesman dreams he is kidnapped in mistake for his noble double.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

Walter poses as a detective to impress his girlfriend and ends up having to fend off thieves who try to steal her father's valuable diamond, kept on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Forde

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charlotte Greenwood

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Crawford