Walter Forde — Director (10)

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Third Time Lucky (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Third Time Lucky
director: Walter Forde actor: Bobby Howes / Dorothy Boyd …
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.

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Jack's the Boy (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jack's the Boy
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.

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Walter Wants Work (1922) IMDb TMDB
Walter Wants Work
Walter wants work (1922) (Directed by and starring Walter Forde this stands as a good introduction to the work of the UK's only major comedian. This farce finds Walter attempting and failing at multiple jobs with the inevitable suspicion from the local bobbies.

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
director: Walter Forde actor: Arthur Askey / Richard Murdoch …
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. 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.