Charles Paton Movies

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir...

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes,...

A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up...

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...

A musical film directed by Geoffrey Benstead

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where...

The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a...

'Hall porter forced to join Navy while tracking spies.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather...

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill...

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film...