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H.F. Maltby

Henry Francis Maltby (25 November 1880 – 25 October 1963) was a prolific writer for the London stage and British cinema from after the First World War until the 1950s. He also appeared in many films.

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Movies Starring H.F. Maltby (47)

The Trojan Brothers (1946)

Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married. ...

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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play. ...

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Home Sweet Home (1945)

Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing. ...

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Medal for the General (1944)

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII. ...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury. ...

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Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)

A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be rationed is stolen, and the police fear gangsters are planning to sell the foods on the black market. As the offic ...

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Bob's Your Uncle (1942)

Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village. ...

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Facing the Music (1941)

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Garrison Follies (1940)

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Under Your Hat (1940)

In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful ...

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Return to Yesterday (1940)

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. ...

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Old Mother Riley Joins Up (1939)

Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents. ...

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The Gang's All Here (1939)

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company ...

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Pygmalion (1939)

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous ...

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His Lordship Goes to Press (1939)

An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles. ...

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The Good Old Days (1939)

1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for such performances. A rival tavern informs the police and they have to pay a heavy fine. However, they find the money by rescuing a boy and getting the reward. ...

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What a Man! (1939)

Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than judgement. ...

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Darts Are Trumps (1938)

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well. ...

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Owd Bob (1938)

Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused ...

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Paradise for Two (1937)

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend. ...

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Young and Innocent (1937)

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort. ...

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Song of the Road (1937)

After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters ...

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Pearls Bring Tears (1937)

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing. ...

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O-Kay for Sound (1937)

Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgrun ...

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Take My Tip (1937)

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back. ...

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The Sky’s the Limit (1937)

Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs. ...

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Jack of All Trades (1936)

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you rem ...

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Two's Company (1936)

The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship. ...

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Busman's Holiday (1936)

A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals. ...

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Everything in Life (1936)

An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer. ...

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Queen of Hearts (1936)

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him. ...

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Everything Is Thunder (1936)

The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I. ...

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Where There's a Will (1936)

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. ...

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Calling the Tune (1936)

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscr ...

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King of the Castle (1936)

A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title. ...

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Reasonable Doubt (1936)

A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son. ...

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The Right Age to Marry (1935)

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married. ...

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A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)

The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald. ...

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The Morals of Marcus (1935)

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London. ...

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Girls Will Be Boys (1934)

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a boy. ...

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Falling in Love (1934)

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead. ...

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I Spy (1934)

Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies. ...

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Lost In The Legion (1934)

Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion! ...

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A Political Party (1934)

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected. ...

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Freedom of the Seas (1934)

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeb ...

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The Luck of a Sailor (1934)

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 country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to ...

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Those Were the Days (1934)

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and befor ...

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Movies Made By H.F. Maltby (23)

It's a Grand Life (1953)

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from the attentions of a predatory Sergeant-Major. ...

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Gert and Daisy Clean Up (1942)

Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war. ...

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Front Line Kids (1942)

Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating. ...

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Gert and Daisy's Weekend (1942)

Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country. ...

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Garrison Follies (1940)

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Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marr ...

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Blind Folly (1939)

A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang. ...

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His Lordship Goes to Press (1939)

An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles. ...

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His Lordship Regrets (1938)

The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret. ...

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Darts Are Trumps (1938)

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well. ...

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Boys Will Be Girls (1938)

Matronly great aunt Emily went off to Africa and left behind her wanna be snobbish family. Ten years later, upon her death, the greedy family members awaits the reading of the will. Ready to celebrate their fortunes the family gathers the evening before wi ...

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The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer. ...

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Wanted! (1937)

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured. ...

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It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned. ...

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Busman's Holiday (1936)

A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals. ...

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Queen of Hearts (1936)

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him. ...

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Twice Branded (1936)

A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him. ...

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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)

The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a distinguished actor, which dissolves into a performance of one of his famous melodramas about a ...

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)

It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it wi ...

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The Right Age to Marry (1935)

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married. ...

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Department Store (1935)

The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged for a cracksman, just out of prison, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other. ...

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The Love Nest (1933)

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond. ...

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For the Love of Mike (1932)

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian. ...

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