Peter Gawthorne — Actor (11)
Something Always Happens (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Something Always Happens
director: Michael Powell actor: Ian Hunter / Nancy O'Neil
other title: 好事连连
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim
other title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
No Limit (1935) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
No Limit
director: Monty Banks actor: George Formby / Florence Desmond
other title: George bricht alle Rekorde
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
Ask a Policeman (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ask a Policeman
director: Marcel Varnel actor: Will Hay / Graham Moffatt
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Sunny Side Up (1929) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Sunny Side Up
director: David Butler actor: Janet Gaynor / Charles Farrell
other title: 阳光丽人 / La Vie en rose
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage her other admirers. Fleeing in his car, Jack ends up in an urban block party where he meets you-know-who.
"Pimpernel" Smith (1941) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Pimpernel Smith
other title: 红花侠 / Pimpernel Smith
It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent to engage in an archaeological dig. When his students discover that the professor is the man responsible for smuggling a number of enemies of the Nazi state out of Germany, they enthusiastically join him in his fight. But things are complicated when one of his students brings a mysterious woman into their circle, a woman who is secretly working for the Gestapo.