Movies: Eliot Makeham

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Mino...

Romantic comedy of misunderstandings....

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot....

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

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his ...

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)...

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children....

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the ...

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles....

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn'...

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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....