, 1h10 Directed byCharles Saunders OriginUnited-kingdom GenresScience fiction, Horror ActorsGeorge Coulouris, Vera Day, Marpessa Dawn, Norman Claridge, Alexander Field, Roger Avon Roles Fair Attendant Rating46% In the depths of the Amazon jungle, a carnivorous tree feeds on the blood of women, and generates a fluid that can bring the dead back to life. The giant plant is worshipped by natives, who perform sacrificial rites to appease it. A visiting scientist captures the plant and takes it home to his laboratory, where he subjects it to experiments. But in order to proceed, he must first find women to feed it.
, 22minutes Directed byLeslie Arliss OriginUnited-kingdom ActorsPhilip Friend, Honor Blackman, Mervyn Johns, Alexander Field Roles Mr. Carlton Rating56% A nurse in the dispensary of an English hospital is suffering with a migraine, and accidentally dispenses the wrong medicines to three patients. The police and doctors have little time to locate the patients before the consequences are fatal.
, 1h15 Directed byWalter Summers OriginUnited-kingdom GenresThriller, Horror, Crime ThemesMedical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité ActorsBela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Wilfred Walter, Alexander Field, Edmon Ryan Rating57% In London, Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) runs an insurance agency where he loans money in exchange for the assigning of life insurance benefits to himself of many of his customers' policies. A resident of Orloff's (under the name "Dearborn") home for the "Destitute Blind" is Jake, a tall, hideous brute, who murders on Orloff's behalf. Scotland Yard begins finding bodies in the Thames River. One of the dead men has a daughter named Diane (Greta Gynt) for whom Orloff obtains employment at the home for the blind. Suspicions begin to arise surrounding Dearborn and Orloff in relation to the dead bodies. Orloff sends Jake (Wilfred Walter) to kill Diane who has found out too much about them. When Orloff disappears, Diane finds one of her father's cuff links in the home from the blind. Confronted by Diane, Dearborn removes his disguise to show himself as Orloff. Orloff traps Diane with a straight-jacket and calls for Jake to finish the job. Jake refuses as he has found out that Orloff has murdered a blind friend of his. Jake turns on Orloff and throws him out of a window allowing him to sink in the mud below.
, 1h18 Directed byMarcel Varnel, Thomas Bentley OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy ActorsGene Gerrard, June Clyde, Hal Gordon, Richard Hearne, Charles Paton, Fred Duprez Roles Greengrocer Rating54% After a music hall performer has his performing partner, an ape, confiscated by his financial creditors he persuades his assistant to dress up and impersonate the animal so that he can continue his act. However a series of embarressments arise when they are invited to stay at a country house by a young woman who wishes to demonstrate to her father her theory that apes are as intelligent as people.
Directed byPaul Merzbach GenresMusical ThemesMusical films, Films based on plays ActorsLilian Harvey, Wendy Toye, Carl Esmond, Harold Warrender, Richard Bird, Esmé Percy Rating58% Lilian Harvey, the toast of two continents, is her usual radiant self in Invitation to the Waltz. Harvey plays Jenny Peachey (honest!), a Drury Lane ballerina during the Napoleonic Wars. Swept off her slippers by the handsome Duke of Wurtemberg (Harold Warrender), Jenny gives up her dancing career to become the Duke's mistress. As the war between England and France intensifies, our heroine uses her influence to persuade the Duke to sign a treaty with England, thereby helping to bring about the downfall of Napoleon (Esme Percy). Through it all, Jenny is worshipped from afar by handsome Lieutenant Carl (Carl Esmond). Magnificently produced, Invitation to the Waltz was a lighthearted follow-up to Lillian Harvey's more serious "ballerina sacrifices all" opus, Schwartze Rosen.
, 1h11 Directed byGeorge King OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama ActorsBenita Hume, Heather Angel, John Stuart, Franklin Dyall, Mary Merrall, Alexander Field Roles Sweepy Ford Rating59% James Harg (Stuart) and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.