Leslie Arliss (Writing)
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Works
The Wicked Lady
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.
Release Date:1983-04-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:18
The Adventures of William Tell
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
Release Date:1958-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Dearth of a Salesman
Comedy short starring Peter Sellers. Previously thought lost, but discovered in a skip outside Park Lane Films.
Release Date:1957-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Buccaneers
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
Release Date:1956-09-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:4
Dead by Morning
Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
Release Date:1955-07-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
The Woman's Angle
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Release Date:1952-02-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Saints and Sinners
What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Release Date:1949-08-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Idol of Paris
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Release Date:1948-04-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A Man About the House
Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
Release Date:1947-10-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
The Wicked Lady
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Release Date:1945-11-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:30
Love Story
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
Release Date:1944-11-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
The Man in Grey
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Release Date:1943-08-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:40
The Foreman Went to France
Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
Release Date:1942-06-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:9
The Night Has Eyes
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
Release Date:1942-06-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
South American George
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
Release Date:1941-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Saint Meets the Tiger
A man murdered at the Saint's doorstep manages to utter a few words to Simon Templar before he dies, sending him off to the quaint resort village of Baycombe where he confronts crime mastermind 'The Tiger' and his gang as they plan to smuggle gold bullion out of the country.
Release Date:1941-12-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
The Team (It All Depends on Me)
Short film about the importance of cooperation in the war effort, featuring Arsenal F.C. and manager George Allison.
Release Date:1941-08-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Farmer's Wife
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
Release Date:1941-04-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Release Date:1940-05-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenstory
Vote Count:8
For Freedom
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
Release Date:1940-05-04
Department:Crew
Job:Script
The Second Mr. Bush
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
Release Date:1940-04-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Come on George!
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Release Date:1939-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:5
Good Morning, Boys!
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
Release Date:1937-05-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
All In!
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Release Date:1936-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Where There's a Will
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Release Date:1936-08-10
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:5
Rhodes of Africa
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
Release Date:1936-06-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Heat Wave
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
Release Date:1935-05-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Road House
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Release Date:1934-11-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
My Old Dutch
Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
Release Date:1934-10-01
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Orders Is Orders
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Release Date:1933-07-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Holiday Lovers
When a man and woman of modest means meet on a Brighton pier they begin a holiday romance. However, when they each act rich to dupe the other, there are unintended consequences,,,
Release Date:1932-11-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Strip, Strip, Hooray!
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Release Date:1932-09-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The Innocents of Chicago
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Release Date:1932-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Farmer's Wife
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Release Date:1928-02-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:73