With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Jack HulbertJack Brown
Cicely CourtneidgeMrs. Bobday
Winifred ShotterIvy
Francis ListerJules Martin
Peter GawthorneMr. Brown
Ben FieldMr. Bobday
Charles FarrellMartinDickie Valentine
O.B. ClarenceTimkinsHal GordonMan with scarf at accidentA comedy film directed by George King.
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Taxi driver Jim befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London. A plot is afoot by sinister forces to kidnap Ludwig, and Jim becomes caught up in the drama. After the child is abducted Jim uses all his ingenuity, including cross-dressing as a Countess and becoming involved in a car chase, to rescue him from his captors.
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
A musical film directed by Fred Paul
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
A novelist living in a boarding house imagines a murder that involves his fellow boarders.
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating murders linked to a mysterious callbox, likely involving suspects from a will, with a newspaper woman assisting and uncovering deeper secrets behind the apparent financial motives.
When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand.