List of the best Moore Marriott movies: Ask a Policeman(1939), Oh, Mr. Porter!(1937), Convict 99(1938), Old Bones of the River(1938), Windbag the Sailor(1936), Cheer, Boys, Cheer(1939), I Thank You(1941), Charley's Big-Hearted Aunt(1939), Band Waggon(1940), I'll Be Your Sweetheart(1945), Owd Bob(1938), Green for Danger(1946) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1939
82 Minutes
Constable Jeremiah Harbottle
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Glennis Lorimer Peter Gawthorne Charles Oliver
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Comedy
UK
1937
85 Minutes
Jeremiah Harbottle
stationmaster loser sidekick gunrunner goon amusing witty unrestrained madcap ireland rural community train station gun running adventure comedy adventure pursuit 1930s
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
Comedy
1938
91 Minutes
Jerry the Mole
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Googie Withers Peter Gawthorne Basil Radford Dennis Wyndham Wilfred Walter Alf Goddard Garry Marsh Basil McGrail
headmaster prisoner prison official airy amusing charming cheeky engaging lighthearted madcap prison school mistaken identity comedy adventure underdog 1930s
A British schoolteacher (Will Hay) becomes a prison warden and lets inmates run the place like a business.
Comedy
1938
95 Minutes
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Robert Adams Jack Livesey Jack London F. Wyndham Goldie
A teacher (Will Hay) opening a school for native African tribes takes over for the commissioner and causes an uprising when he tries to collect taxes.
Comedy
1936
85 Minutes
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Norma Varden Kenneth Warrington Dennis Wyndham Amy Veness
sailor gangster companion criminal intense brooding gory raw suspenseful boat bar sea extortion lie navigation insurance danger revenge rise fall
A storytelling sea captain (Will Hay) commandeers a boat for an unscrupulous shipping agent looking to collect insurance money.
Comedy
UK
1939
85 Minutes
Geordie
Edmund Gwenn Nova Pilbeam Jimmy O'Dea Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt C.V. France Peter Coke Alexander Knox Ivor Barnard
Set in the world of brewing, a classic tale (an Ealing speciality) of the small, friendly, family run company being threatened with closure by the nasty, modern, large organisation. ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
UK
1941
81 Minutes
Pop Bennett
Arthur Askey Richard Murdoch Lily Morris Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Peter Gawthorne Kathleen Harrison Felix Aylmer
entertainer agent cook socialite patron singer amusing madcap melodramatic london office air-raid shelter music hall estate underground theater production class distinctions world war ii assumed identity fundraising
Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Romance
UK
1939
72 Minutes
Jerry
Arthur Askey Richard Murdoch Graham Moffatt Moore Marriott J.H. Roberts Felix Aylmer Wally Patch Phyllis Calvert Jeanne de Casalis Elliott Mason Donald Calthrop
Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1940
80 Minutes
Jasper
Jack Hylton Patricia Kirkwood Moore Marriott Peter Gawthorne Donald Calthrop Wally Patch
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Musical
1945
104 Minutes
George Le Brunn
Margaret Lockwood Vic Oliver Michael Rennie Peter Graves Moore Marriott Frederick Burtwell Garry Marsh George Merritt Muriel George
Drama
1938
75 Minutes
Samuel
Will Fyffe John Loder Margaret Lockwood Graham Moffatt Moore Marriott Wilfred Walter A. Bromley Davenport H.F. Maltby Edmond Breon
A farmer (Will Fyffe) in Scotland goes bankrupt when his prize animal loses the local sheepdog trials.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1946
93 Minutes
Joseph Higgins
Alastair Sim Trevor Howard Sally Gray Rosamund John Leo Genn Judy Campbell Megs Jenkins Moore Marriott Henry Edwards Ronald Adam George Woodbridge
doctor nun nurse detective patient chilling engaging suspenseful hospital england murder betrayal war mystery 1940s
After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.