Claud Allister Movies

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom...

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

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...

A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's...

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

Gertrude Lennox, a dominating woman who controls every aspect of her household, is preparing a reception for famous novelist Philip Lord, who is to...

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French Riviera. Aware that Lucy is a phony,...

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...