Movies: Patrick Aherne

A British crime film directed by John Longden...

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer – once touted as Elstree's own Clark Gable – playing identical twins with very different ambitions: one is a pol...

A British musical film directed by George Pearson...

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound....

An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!...

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mot...

'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)...

Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captor...

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