Movies: Leonard Sharp

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to...

Story about a group of young cyclist track riders and their effort to retain their track against long odds....

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is no...

An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance....

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade,...

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall....

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it....

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent ...

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out....

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well...

Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist....

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy....

On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequ...

An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree....

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah....

A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatri...

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song....

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him....

A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer....

A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him....