Originally Posted by Client Fan

I'd say the 5 thirties' Maurice Elvey films. I'd go for the older films as I believe the need for posterity is greatest there; however there is an ulterior motive which is that Elvey is probably the most well-known of the directors in the list, which will hopefully translate to sales, which in turn would bring you in the turnover required to start working on releasing the rest of them.

I'd like to add Cotton Queen, as it's the only one of the thirties titles I've actually seen, it having received its one and only UK TV screening on BBC2 on Christmas Eve 1993. It was a pleasant enough parochial comedy, but with a lack of cinematic sophistication alongside the films coming out of the big British studios at the time that makes it seem from another era entirely. Even in spite of (or indeed because of?) the rough edges though, the performers were engagingly spirited and the complications were actually rather funny.

It was part of a week long season of antique British films receiving TV premieres (all at around the 6.30am mark!). The others included the 1935 Gordon Harker vehicle THE LAD, a young Lilli Palmer as a (folk-singing) gypsy in 1937's rather stiff COMMAND PERFORMANCE, and on Christmas Day the 1933 whodunnit A SHOT IN THE DARK. The latter was the best of the bunch, a comedy thriller with a stagebound plot about a vicar playing amateur detective following the death of a miserable old recluse and his nearest and dearest all claiming to have done the deed. The film's creakiness, combined with the ungodly hour and the excitement of the morning, resulted in a cracking atmosphere and I certainly wouldn't mind paying a few quid to see it again. To my knowledge, all these films were only screened this once.

Originally Posted by Rob Compton

Very frustrating that the same films go round and round again, and these are only shown the once.