Leslie S. Hiscott

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her...

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr)...

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in...

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country...

Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a...

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a...

Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian...

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last...

Comedy film...

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito...

Eddie Smart (George Gee) was born clumsy and is a laughing stock at work, the Sprouto Hair Tonic Company. One day a phrenologist reads his 'bumps' ...

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new...

Tony Pumpford takes a job selling vacuum cleaners, and in doing so tangles with a chorus girl. He then accidentally ends up in the show whilst...

A woman's parents became robbers in a desperate effort to prevent her marrying an unsuitable man.

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...

Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.

In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.

Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease...

The young Lord Sloane marries a musical comedy actress, much to his parents' disappointment. The actress's brother-in-law gets into betting...

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under...

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.

A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.

'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.