Jack Melford Movies

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tony Selby

Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith),...

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Cast: Vincent Ball

'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard

A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ronald Howard

In this musical comedy, the trouble begins when a carefree playboy steals the virtue of a young French maiden and is forced to marry her when her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Stanley Lupino

When You Come Home was Randle’s seventh feature film, and sees him recount his life as a music hall odd job man to his grandaughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frank Randle

In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Barbara Jefford

The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terence Alexander

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Fields

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Denison

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

Eddie Marston is wealthy and kind, but his affairs are rapidly descending into chaos. Who can help him?

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Lupino

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

A penniless young charmer hits upon an ingenious route to fame and fortune.

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Cast: Betty Ann Davies

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valerie Hobson

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

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Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Basil Radford

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Tracy

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Chapman

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Sellers

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Henson

A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Robey

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

A farcical comedy about a con-man and a girl reporter who find romance while the former is planning a coup at a Swedish dowager's expense.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Chaplin

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harold Warrender

A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: James Mason

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrée Debar

When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: William Hartnell

The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alan Baxter

A musical set during the French Revolution.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne Ziegler

The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Flanagan

A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands

Genre: Comedy

Cast: William Fox

During the early 1960s, a Chicago mobster and a Londoner try to get involved in a jukebox racket.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Kelly