Laurence Hanray Movies

'Affianced Foreign Office agent searches for mystery woman he loves.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Cast: Tom Walls

'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Viola Keats

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges...

Genre: History

Cast: Charles Laughton

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Newton

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dora Barton

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tod Slaughter

A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Errol Flynn

In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

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

Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clive Brook

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ernest Milton

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jessie Matthews

The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roland Young

A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frances Day

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jessie Matthews

Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Kelly

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roland Young

Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Burgess Meredith

When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a...

Genre: War

Cast: Charles Farrell

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matheson Lang

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Will Hay

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Aileen Marson

A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Basil Rathbone

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna May Wong

In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter...

Genre: History

Cast: Marlene Dietrich

Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victoria Hopper

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Haggard

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matheson Lang

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Buchanan

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Bird

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: James Mason

"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carlyle Blackwell

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Vivien Leigh

A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury

Genre: Music

Cast: Rène Ray

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Herbert Marshall

A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Donat

Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.

Genre: Music

Cast: John Garrick

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...

Genre: History

Cast: Flora Robson

A woman plans to boost her public profile by getting a divorce. She enlists the help of a male friend to act as co-respondent leading to a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Iris Hoey

A British adventure film directed by George King

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Harry Milton

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Fields

The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Laurie

John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Buchanan

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jessie Matthews

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim