Claud Allister Movies

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom...

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt...

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A man becomes bored with married life and pretends to have lost his memory so he can pursue other women.

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

A barber is mistaken for a rich society woman's new servant.

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

The story starts with a prologue set in 1889 in which we see an angry husband murdering his wife's lover. The setting then moves to 1929, just as an...