Movies: Arthur B. Woods

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwh...

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as t...

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus....

In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field....

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another....

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be foun...

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name....

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the ti...

Fantasy of a bank clerk who accepts a deposit of a million too late to put it in the bank and has to guard it over the weekend....

One of the first screen outings for Will Hay. Hay plays the Director General of the National Broadcasting Group (NBG) who hides away in his office unaware that the general feeling about his programming is that it is too high-brow and the public are n...

The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starring Maisie Grey. His father, fearing scandal, bribes amoral actor Atherley Armitage to sabotage the ...

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

Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes pl...

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure....

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Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It was made at Teddington Studios with sets designed by Peter Proud. Unlike several of Miller's Tedding...

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI....

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot....

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful....

'Girl's wastrel cousin and his valet go to Timbuctoo.' (British Film Catalogue)...