H.F. Maltby Movies

An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.

A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in...

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an...

A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves...

A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.

The hapless king of a small European nation must put up with a domineering queen, a daughter who wants to elope with her boyfriend, a peasant revolt...

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public...

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.

A useless secretary and his private detective friend try to help an heiress from being swindled by her guardian.

A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his...

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.