H.F. Maltby
Birthday: 1880-11-25
Place of Birth: Ceres, South Africa
Biography: Henry Francis Maltby (25 November 1880 – 25 October 1963) was a prolific writer for the London stage and British cinema from after the First World War until the 1950s. He also appeared in many films. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movies
Young and Innocent
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins f...
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Pearls Bring Tears
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for th...
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Falling in Love
British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title...
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Reasonable Doubt
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the ...
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The Morals of Marcus
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London....
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Where There's a Will
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to fin...
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Darts Are Trumps
Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expe...
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A Little Bit of Bluff
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald....
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O-Kay for Sound
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major bac...
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Owd Bob
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottl...
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Calling the Tune
Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solv...
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Everything Is Thunder
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden ...
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The Gang's All Here
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that ...
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Girls Will Be Boys
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a ...
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Song of the Road
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles...
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Jack of All Trades
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way i...
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Queen of Hearts
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend...
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Home Sweet Home
Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to...
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Under Your Hat
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carbu...
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Take My Tip
Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindl...
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Freedom of the Seas
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old fri...
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A Political Party
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is ...
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Those Were the Days
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern...
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The Sky’s the Limit
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his frie...
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I Spy
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies....
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The Luck of a Sailor
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. ...
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Return to Yesterday
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre ...
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The Good Old Days
1840 - Max Miller and a troupe of artistes come to perform at a tavern, which is not licensed for su...
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What a Man!
Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of of...
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The Right Age to Marry
A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married....
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem...
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His Lordship Goes to Press
An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity t...
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Lost In The Legion
Two ship's cooks get lost in the desert and unwittingly enroll in the Foreign Legion!...
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Old Mother Riley Detective
A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food ...
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Bob's Your Uncle
Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to...
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Busman's Holiday
A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals....
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Everything in Life
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer....
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Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra....
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A Canterbury Tale
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...
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The Trojan Brothers
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappi...
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Medal for the General
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII....
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Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Dooli...
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Two's Company
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire business...
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Everything Happens to Me
A cleaner salesman finds himself campaigning for both sides in an election....
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The Live Wire
Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a...
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The Queen's Husband
The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wan...
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The Great Mr Handel
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal angu...
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