Ronald Frankau

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.

Lesley and Wesley, comedians awaiting their turn at the Skewball Hippodrome, appoint themselves amateur detectives to find a stolen diamond brooch.

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

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

'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...

An inventor shows off his new machine which can relay any event or portray any person at the touch of a button.

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

'Compilation of turns from Pathetones and Pictorials, compered by comedian Ronald Frankau.' (British Pathé)