Walter C. Hackett

The Barton Mystery

Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.

Love Under Fire

A suspense-thriller-comedy set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War.

Take a Chance

Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance

Espionage

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

It Pays to Advertise!

Mr. Miller is the CEO of a big soap company whose son Henry like to spend his father's money but isn't interesting in working. Henry's laziness makes Mr. Miller upset and stressed out, so he assigns his young secretary (who the son also is in love with) to figure out a way to make Henry work and she will get 10,000 crowns ($1000). But things doesn't really to turn out the way Mr. Miller imagined.

One New York Night

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, and with the aid of Phoebe, the hotel telephone operator who takes a liking to him, and also Countess Louise Browssiloff, who innocently had left some personal belongings in the murdered man's room and is most anxious to recover the incriminating evidence, Foxhall solves the murder mystery.

Hyde Park Corner

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

Hyde Park Corner

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

Road House

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Their Big Moment

Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.

The Barton Mystery

British crime film directed by Henry Edwards

Shout It from the House Tops

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Life Goes On

A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.

77 Park Lane

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.

It Pays to Advertise

To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.

Captain Applejack

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

Sweethearts and Wives

An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.

Strangers of the Night

A rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when two Russian thieves, Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.

Whispering Shadows

Just before his sudden death, a businessman accuses his son-in-law of embezzlement. His daughter is convinced of her fiancée's innocence and tries to clear his name and unmask the real villain and is aided by secret messages…from her dead father. Or are they?