Dual Control

A doctor learns his pregnant patient is engaged to his son.

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder.

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)

A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe.....

This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.

The story of a surly crew, an honest God-fearing captain, a hardboiled-but-loyal Scotch mate, a scoundrelly second-mate, and then a mutiny, the fight and the final voyage to a safe harbor. But not before the Captain has been murdered, his pretty daughter in peril, her rescue by the single passenger on board, and a member of the crew thrown overboard by another crew member.

A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath.

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.

A reconstruction of the arrival of the British Army in France in August 1914, and of the retreat from Mons.

During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.

A man spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds.

An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.