Movies: H. Manning Haynes

Eustace Ede, the unhinged brother of Lady Magda Ware, is discovered drowned in the lake of her country house. While most assume it to have been suicide, a detective inspector's persistence finally leads to the arrest of Magda's husband, Sir Hubert W...

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose ...

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing....

A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt....

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his ...

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)...

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiab...

A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative....

'Old knight's new wife throws first husband down well and tries to burn blackmailing gardener.' (British Film Catalogue)...

'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)...

A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels....

A widow weds a bully and tames him by having a sailor pose as her long-lost son....

A rich man's chauffeur kills his mistress and frames his daughter's fiancé....

A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocratic oath....

A retired boatswain hires an ex-soldier to rob a widow's inn....

A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son....

'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A small boy [Billy] looking for a way of avoiding the workhouse looks for a father. Rl. 1 Captain Hunt of the ketch `Nancy Bell’ sends his crew off for a drink before they sail. They take along Sam who has been reading his copy of `The War Cry’ and i...

A schoolmistress sets rival lovers to find her father who is hiding in belief that he is a murderer....