Once a Thief

A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.

A British musical film directed by George Pearson

During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.

'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.

A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.

Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.

In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.

Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.

A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.

A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.

Londoner tries to woo fishergirl away from her sweetheart.

A pauper tells workhouse visitors of his wife's death from starvation.