Evensong 1934   N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Evelyn Laye, Fritz Kortner, Emlyn Williams, Alec Guinness, Carl Esmond, Alice Delysia, Muriel Aked, Arthur Sinclair
An opera diva (Evelyn Laye) forsakes love for her career and tragically dies of a broken heart when her career ends. A young Alec Guinness makes his screen debut as a soldier in the audience at a concert. 1 User Review
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| | geoff 03/10/2007 | The cast list omits one imporant star - Conchita Supervia - a glorious Spanish mezzo soprano who died much too young, a couple of years after this film was made. This is the only film footage of her.
This film is based on a novel by Beverley Nicholls which is a thinly disguised portrait of Dame Nellie Melba. Supervia plays a young up-and-coming singer who exlipses the ageing prima donna. In real life Supervia was ten years older than Laye but the make-up was very effective. |
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 Friday the Thirteenth 1933  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Friday the 13th
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, Gordon Harker, Muriel Aked, Martita Hunt, Cyril Smith, Richard Hulton, Max Miller, Alfred Drayton, Hartley Power, Percy Parsons, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Ralph Richardson
At one minute before midnight on Friday the 13th, lightning strikes, and a crane falls onto a London bus. Now, Big Ben winds backwards, and the past lives and events of six of the passengers are shown in separate sequences. Two passengers are killed, and two are injured; but those who suffered are not revealed until the story's end.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life 1950 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Bernadette O'Farrell, John Bentley, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton, Muriel Aked, Edward Rigby, Laurence Naismith
When some girls from St. Swithins School are accidentally assigned to the dorm at male-only Nutbourne College, the fun begins. Good English humor.
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| 1. Evensong (1934)
2. Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
aka: Friday the 13th
3. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
4. No Funny Business (1933)
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