List of the best Gus McNaughton movies: Keep Your Seats, Please!(1936), Trouble Brewing(1939), Storm in a Teacup(1937), Sidewalks of London(1938), Clouds Over Europe(1939), The Divorce of Lady X(1938), There Ain't No Justice(1939), Let the People Sing(1942), Courageous Mr. Penn(1941) ... ...
Musical, Comedy
UK
1936
82 Minutes
Max
George Formby Florence Desmond Gus McNaughton Alastair Sim Harry Tate Enid Stamp-Taylor Hal Gordon Clifford Heatherley Binkie Stuart
A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
Comedy
UK
1939
87 Minutes
Bill Pike
George Formby Googie Withers Gus McNaughton Garry Marsh Joss Ambler Ronald Shiner C. Denier Warren Martita Hunt
counterfeiter airy amusing charming confident frenetic england investigation crime windfall pursuit underdog 1930s
George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
Comedy
UK
1937
87 Minutes
Horace Skirving
Vivien Leigh Ian Dalrymple Rex Harrison Cecil Parker Sara Allgood Ursula Jeans Gus McNaughton Arthur Wontner Edgar K. Bruce Robert Hale Eliot Makeham
journalist politician daughter woman dog cheery charming scotland small town court journalism unlikely romance reputation scandal trial pets rivalry love 1930s
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Comedy
1938
84 Minutes
Arthur Smith
Charles Laughton Vivien Leigh Rex Harrison Tyrone Guthrie Larry Adler Gus McNaughton Bart Cormack Edward Lexy Mairie O'Neill Basil Gill
street performer orphan songwriter partner dancer cheeky emotional intense london street party theater stage fame ambition drinking prison career singing rise
A street performer (Charles Laughton) develops a poor girl's (Vivien Leigh) talent, and a songwriter (Rex Harrison) boosts her to music-hall fame.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1939
78 Minutes
Blenkinsop
Laurence Olivier Ralph Richardson Valerie Hobson George Curzon David Tree George Merritt Gus McNaughton Sandra Storme
A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.
Comedy
UK
1938
91 Minutes
Room Service Waiter
Merle Oberon Laurence Olivier Ralph Richardson Binnie Barnes Morton Selten J.H. Roberts Gertrude Musgrove Gus McNaughton Eileen Peele Hugh McDermott H.B. Hallam
lawyer guest lord judge wife cheeky charming hilarious london hotel office divorce impersonation stranded nobility romance infidelity forbidden love temptation discovery
Divorce lawyer Everard Logan thinks the woman who spent the night in his hotel room is the erring wife of his new client.
Drama
UK
1939
83 Minutes
Alfie Norton
Michael Wilding Jill Furse Jimmy Hanley Edward Rigby Mary Clare Phyllis Stanley Edward Chapman Richard Ainley Gus McNaughton Michael Hogarth Richard Norris
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Comedy
UK
1942
105 Minutes
Ketley
Alastair Sim Fred Emney Edward Rigby Oliver Wakefield Patricia Roc Annie Esmond Marian Spencer Olive Sloane Maire O'Neill Gus McNaughton
A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
Biography
UK
1941
79 Minutes
Clifford Evans Deborah Kerr Dennis Arundell Aubrey Mallalieu D.J. Williams O.B. Clarence James Harcourt Charles Carson Henry Oscar Max Adrian John Stuart
king charles ii admiral quaker wife military officer explorer somber spirited powerful london royal court pennsylvania countryside england united states william penn religious persecution colonization father/son relationship religious conversion
William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."