William Luff Movies

A look at the work of a policeman in rural Scotland.

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934....

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country...

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...

A dramatised account produced for the Ministry of Information of the re-opening during World War Two of the Tyneside shipyards closed down during the...

A short documentary about shipbuilding on the Clyde.

During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is...

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external...

Filmed after the start of the blitz, but with little visual reference to this, 'City Bound' is an exploration of the daily commute into London from...

A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.