Reginald Purdell Movies

'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Cast: Anna Neagle

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

Genre: War

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jane Wyman

'Comedy concerning a bank clerk who uses his inheritance to fund a serious drams which, ironically, succeeds as a burlesque.' (BFI)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Lynn

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the sisters become involved with charming businessman...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Flora Robson

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elaine Benson

Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Johnston

27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Will Fyffe

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Miller

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

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Beatrix Thomson

'Shopgirl posing as film star loves porter posing as artist.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Florence Desmond

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Owen Nares

In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lilian Harvey

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jessie Matthews

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Montgomery

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

Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

“Professional jealousy over the discovery of a formula for an anaesthetic leads to murder in a hospital.” - BFI.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugh Williams

“Comedy concerning a clerk pretending to be a European composer who falls in love with a woman who poses as an actress.” - BFI.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carol Goodner

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clifford Evans

Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reginald Purdell

“Comedy of a rich man who poses as a poor man and is taken by a convict into a hostel and given a job by the chief assistant.” - BFI.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Williams

“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Horace Hodges

Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Buchanan

Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elsie Waters

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...

Genre: War

Cast: George Formby

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" –...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Richard Attenborough

This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. In the early 1900s, two variety stars, Kit Burns and Joe...

Genre: Music

Cast: Reginald Purdell

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea...

Genre: War

Cast: John Mills

'Honeymoon wife learns of husband's past and runs away.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard