Titles Comprise: Radio Parade Of 1935 (Dir. Arthur B. Woods 1934) The Ghost Of St. Michael's (Dir. Marcel Varnel 1941) The Black Sheep Of Whitehall (Dir. Basil Dearden/Will Hay 1942) Dandy Dick (Dir. William Beaudine 1935)
One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are not happy. However, when he discovers this he decides to take action and promotes Jimmy, his Head of the Complaints Department, to Programme Director. Jimmy decides that a series of variety spectaculars are what the public want and sets about hiring the acts. But obstacles are put in his way and he discovers that the NBG has its own cluster of wannabe variety stars.
1930s screen siren Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy in Arthur Woods' thrilling remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinée idol Don Alvarado, this rarely-seen drama is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material
Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matheson Lang was one of the twentieth century's greatest Shakespearean players and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England one of his final films he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I (played by Athene Seyler) to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada Drake of England (aka Drake the Pirate) offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life. One of very few surviving films directed in the 1930s by the prodigiously talented Woods it is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Special Features: Image Gallery
1930s screen siren Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy in Arthur Woods' thrilling remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinée idol Don Alvarado, this rarely-seen drama is presented here as a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion. Special Features: Image gallery PDF material
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