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Maurice wants Selwyn out of the house when his lady friend Vera comes for tea, so he gets the guys from the club to make up an activity for him to keep him away. They tell him there is a football match on the moors and they need him to referee.
After winning the election, Selwyn makes 54 proposals at the meeting and everyone votes for him to be the entertainment manager just to end the meeting. He seems to think he can get Sammy Davis Jr to come to the club for £20.
As Selwyn is digging a hole, he is throwing the dirt all over Clive's car and Clive challenges him to a duel. Selwyn's clumsiness upsets everyone at the club, then he runs for a place on the committee.
Selwyn's boss tasks him to find the city drains underground. They give him maps and send him out. He travels all around trying to match the map to the scenery and ends up digging out the toilets in the club.
The club outing is Saturday and Selwyn want to go to the Taj Mahal. The committee vote for Blackpool, but Selwyn secretly books Stratford on Avon. When the coach does not show up, he sends the club members to his mother's to watch TV while they wait.
The committee are sent tickets to the Mayors Ball. When Selwyn sees that he has to bring a date, he panics. He is afraid of women and lies to the group about the woman he is taking.
Selwyn Froggitt is a well-read and clumsy buffoon who smashes his way through his sleepy Yorkshire village of Scarsdale. As a council labourer and hapless handyman, he is an all-around public nuisance.
During the war, a titled family, object to their squadron leader son, being engaged to the daughter of a working class factory worker.
With Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Anthony Newley, Gladys Henson
Filming locations
Film Studios, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK
When reporter Mark Kingston's student brother falls from his Cambridge college window, he makes haste from the States to set out to prove that it would not have been suicide, but was rather murder.
Original title "Murder On The Campus"
With Terence Longdon, Dermit Walsh, Felicity Young, Robertson Hare, Diane Clare, Mark Eden
Filming locations
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
If you're a fan of classic British mystery films, this is the one for you! The Scapegoat from 1959 is a story of mistaken identity and conspiracy starring Alec Guinness and Nicole Maurey. Watch the full movie in colorized version and get ready to be captivated by the thrilling plot! Experience the classic cinema as it was meant to be seen - sit back, relax, and enjoy this timeless masterpiece!
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel (Raymond Walburn) to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is playing. Bobby takes the ten dollars and runs it up to $190 at the dice table. Happy hits on Nancy, but she rebuffs him. He doesn't have the money to pay his band and borrows the gambling winnings from Bobby on the pretext that he will give her a job with his band. Bobby discovers the next day that Happy has hastily departed for New York. The girls follow to a night club where he is working and, after an audition, the manager is willing to give Happy a contract if the girls will sing with his band.
Dean is joined by Frank Sinatra and their respective families for the Christmas show. Dean and Frank do a medley of standards. Frank Jr and Dino perform "How Do You Talk to Your Dad." Tina and Deana sing "Do-Re-Mi."
Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Although the 1934 film makes use of many of the characters in the original play, as well as several of the songs, the plot is almost completely unlike that of the original stage production.
In contrast to the stage version, the film's story takes place entirely in Toyland, which is inhabited by Mother Goose (Virginia Karns) and other well-known fairy tale characters.
The Bells of St. Mary's is an American musical comedy-drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.
It's Christmas Eve 1850, and the melancholy Scrooge finds himself alone at home when he sees before him the ghost of Jacob Marley, his long-time friend and business partner who died seven years earlier. Marley warns Scrooge that he will repent, even in death, for all the suffering he has caused others, and he has only one chance to escape his fate.
Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Jack Webb
Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann (uncredited)
A cunning psychopath is the subject of the greatest manhunt in LAPD history! The semi-documentary style of this film inspired co-star Jack Webb to create his iconic TV series Dragnet.
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Van Heflin
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Robert Rossen
A predatory female plots to rid herself of a meek husband and silence a former lover who may have witnessed the untimely death of her mean-spirited, but wealthy stepmother.
Stars: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts
Director: Harold D. Schuster
Based on the old radio series of the same name, we see the lives of several people attending a popular radio show, including a young couple who meet and fall in love at the show. Great musical acts including Nat King Cole and Spike Jones, but ZaSu Pitts almost steals the show!
The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry.
Peter Finch won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and the film also received four other BAFTA nominations including Best British Film, Best Film from any source and for John Fraser as Best British Actor.
Lawyer Melville Farr takes up the case of a worker who is blackmailed for being homosexual at the cost of derailing his promising career.
A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure (homosexual acts still being illegal). But he's gay himself...