Claud Allister Movies

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

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

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.

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

New York manicurist Mamie Murphy plans to marry a rich man, so she repeatedly turns down the proposals of honest reporter David Haines. When she is...

Linda works at an advertising agency, but, unlike the other women in the secretarial pool, she hopes to succeed in the business rather than just find...

Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of...

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

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

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

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

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

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's...

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 backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.

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...

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."

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

A wealthy young club man is engaged to a senator’s daughter but becomes involved with a gang of blackmailers.

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