Frank Stanmore

Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.

Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!

A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.

The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....

A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.

A comedy film directed by George King.

A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murdered.

Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)

A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.

A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)

While staying at a reportedly haunted inn a traveller discovers that the 'ghost' is a thief.

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

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

Wait and See is a 1929 British silent comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Frank Stanmore, Pauline Johnson and Sam Livesey.

An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

The Little People

Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.

A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.

When a girl's lover kills her husband she offers herself to her father-in-law in exchange for his freedom.

That's a Good Girl is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Jack Buchanan and starring Buchanan, Elsie Randolph and Dorothy Hyson. The film was based on a musical show of the same title that opened at the Lewisham Hippodrome on 19 March 1928, in which Jack Buchanan also starred. The music was written by Joseph Meyer and Phil Charig, with lyrics by Douglas Furber. The film omitted much of music of the original show, but popularised one song in particular, Fancy our Meeting. The song remained a Jack Buchanan favourite and a version of it was also recorded by Al Bowlly shortly after the film's release.

'Newsreel cameramen wrest secret papers from Chinese bandit.' (British Film Catalogue)

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)

A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.

A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.

'Scientist adopts slum girl and she saves him from murderous lover.' (British Film Catalogue)