Claud Allister Movies

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

A bookworm goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter from a forced marriage.

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

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a...

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

A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.

Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the...

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

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

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...

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 British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham