Crackerjack [1938]

[@b.b.finsclara3589]

ABSLUTELY FABULOSOS!!!! Why is it that old films have so much allure...talent...plots....if only Hollywood would watch them and learn.

[@653j521]

They are like that to you because you long for the good old days as portrayed in these movies? :) Just a guess.

[@greggi47]

This was fun. It has good acting, grand costumes, a clever plot--and television! Thanks for sharing.

[@manonwaterloobridge8408]

What a marvellous film and a great story ! Wonderful actors ! Thank you

[@jackiel6183]

Charming movie. Really impressive tap-dancer. Thanks to who ever put all these movies on here.

[@WJack97224]

Yeah, that tap-dancer made me think of Fred Astair.

[@penniep8332]

Everyone back then could Tap Dance. Plus his "taps" were really, really 'off', it was really horrible, if you ask me

[@moira806]

Love all the film thank you all for your hard work keep us all happy

[@nancysanders2398]

This was really a very interesting,novel plot of a movie! Thank you,Spondonman,for showing this movie!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Note well all: if "A Gainsborough Picture," one can rest assured that it is to be . . . A MASTERPIECE !!

[@ClaudiaGale-wv9tz]

It sure ain't no Picasso....

[@stevenfromer3816]

Hilarious little film. Seriously great fun

[@sarahhoskins3032]

Loved this film. It has stood the test of time.

[@keithharvey7230]

Lilli Palmers maid was Ethel Griffies.She was the bird expert in Hitchcocks the Birds.

[@Horse237]

Lilli Palmer was born to a Jewish family in Prussia in 1914. She was on stage in Berlin in 1932. She moved to Paris. She became fluent in French and then in English after she moved there. She married Rex Harrison and acted on stage in New York with him. She had one child Carey Harrison. At age 46 she married a second husband and remained married until she died. Carey Harrison was a writer. He is still alive.

[@brittalbach416]

@9TheMajor she was actress, author, painter and a wonderful wise and charming lady with a big heart

[@brittalbach416]

I remember in her autobiography Dicke Lilli - gutes Kind (fat Lilli good child - she introduced like this as a child) in this book she said her daddy was a doctor and in school she was not allowed to play Virgin Mary in a Christmas school play cause she was Jewish and she was hurt especially because Mary was Jewish too. Later in her marriage with Rex Harrison, she let him go so he could marry Kay Kendall who was terminally ill and in love with Rex. And in later years she married Argentine German actor Carlos Thompson a lot younger than herself. They were very happy until Lilli got cancer and passed away. Carlos was so devastated that he committed suicide then.

[@keithharvey7230]

Rec couldn't stay faithfull to any wives or girlfriends

[@betsybeatty2783]

I just LOVE info like that! Thanks so much!

[@betsybeatty2783]

@@brittalbach416 Thanks so much for taking time to share that info---fascinating!!

[@sandrarice2069]

I enjoyed this movie so very much! Thank you for the upload. Blessings!

[@heatherbowlan9822]

Wonderful movie ,you have an amazing nack for picking great movies ! Thank you for sharing !

[@maryfeehan7896]

Wonderful! Thank you kindly.🤗🙏😌🫣👀☘️🇮🇪✝️

[@jasoncollins1702]

Simply marvellous! It's like a combination of Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, The Wizard of Oz, and Batman, with Noel Coward in the lead! Fine model work too. Top notch!

[@mariescolamiero3628]

Noel Madison not Coward

[@jasoncollins1702]

@@mariescolamiero3628 I'm saying he's like Noel Coward, just like the story is like a Batman story (but isn't). Jeepers.

[@mortdewerewolfe691]

@@jasoncollins1702 It's like a classier, wittier Saint film with Coward instead of George Sanders. Come to think of it that would have been awesome. It's a pity they didn't do sequels, I can imagine Crackerjack of the SOE parachuting into France or Monte Carlo in 1940. Typical of the British film industry to let a gem like this go to waste.

[@stanthology]

Well worth watching. Certainly original and a different genre. A prototype for one of the "Lord Peter Wimsey" characters which showed up as a TV series decades later.

[@user-wc7mo9uo9o]

Fantastic!!! Truly fantastic.Thank you so much for great enjoyment and fun that movie brought. Forgot all the problems of the day.

[@AnnemieM]

Thank you so so much for this great fun movie Spondonman.

[@BluesImprov]

Love his 1938 Flat-Screen TV. . .This guy is way ahead of his time!

[@betsybeatty2783]

😂😂LOL😂😂

[@mortdewerewolfe691]

@@betsybeatty2783 LCD displays did exist in 1938, but not on that scale.

[@hanny7375]

I watch this every year or two and always enjoy it. Horse 237 thanks for the bio of Lilli Palmer.

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

" Go back to your own bed." What was that about? A fun movie to watch on New Years Eve. Thank you for posting.

[@melvinscott9017]

Another great movie with a great cast..

[@warrenwilson4818]

I'm not sure she ever played a more charming role than in this classic film. That great accent!

[@davidw.robertson448]

Tom Walls was 55 and Lilli Palmer was 24 when this movie was made. He died in 1949 age 66 and she died in 1986 age 71. In spite of the age difference one accepts the romantic notion that they are in love.

[@rosemaryedwards1888]

Great movie! Lots of style!

[@bundown5463]

This is a crafty script: brilliant, very creative minds at work.

[@evetko]

Such a nice change to watch a movie that has more older folks in it with all shapes/sizes, and aren't all stunningly beautiful. Walls and Heslop make the best couple of robin-hoods. Must of been a lot of fun for all those extras.

[@mallenjm252]

Indeed people of beauty talent and substance comes in every size shape and color. Imagine how mundane life would become if everyone was forced to be and to speak all the same.

[@charisserempel23]

Wow. The tap at roughly the 23+/- minute mark is mesmerizing. It’s almost a lost art. Very sad. Truly a brilliant combination of dance and athleticism.

[@Alan-rh1el]

Good old fashioned entertainment.Thanks for posting.

[@energybrown]

Best movie I've seen in ages! They sure don't make 'em like that anymore 😍

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Great film, Thank-You!!

[@47Grits]

That was a fun movie.

[@ksr7271]

Another good British movie. Watch it, and thanks Spondonman!

[@lizdoyle7158]

EXCELLENT🌟 FABOULOUS🌟 AWESOME 🌟🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥🎥

[@b.b.finsclara3589]

WICKED.....so amusing! Thaank you for the download.

[@coolroy4300]

Very entertaining, thanks 😊

[@graceland9223]

Thank you spondoman , this has a great cast Lilli Palmer wow .

[@hemanth1778able]

Amazing movie

[@nigelmoore6519]

I really enjoyed that film .

[@pamelaanderson4685]

Jolly good show!

[@keithharvey7230]

Muriel George was the gutsy postmistress in Went the day well?

[@YevonneHorn]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@padgecrack4018]

Great movie, thanks 👍

[@fuzzyburnette7161]

Clever, well done movie. Much like Ronald Colman's Raffles.

[@tcac1687]

Just seen it on tslking pictures it was a fantastic film because of tom wallis

[@robertd.carver6240]

Intriguing crime comedy. Any movie featuring Lili Palmer is worth watching. The actor playing Drake is excellent, but hardly the type one would ordinarily consider as a dashing gentleman crook.

[@johnbuchinsky3193]

Good movie thank you

[@claztube]

Don't step away, watch without Pause. I made the mistake of starting and restarting, Pausing and returning and I always lost the twists that are subtle but are here if you can keep a clear mind. I'll soon return to watch start to finish uninterrupted, for IMO humbly speaking, this film is a Classic in all manner of production, directing and acting.

[@anthonydubose5779]

Very good movie. Loved it. I will watch more.

[@amgrumm]

14:52 Giving away other people’s money Robin Hood Ideas

[@RideoutMr]

"Shut up", my favorite part.

[@653j521]

The diamonds would be about a half million today in British pounds.

[@tinklvsme]

Wow robbing an airplane, thats different.

[@Phiyedough]

It’s Friday, It’s five to five, and it’s.....

[@christianfrommuslim]

Very cute and stylish! The only rough bit is imagining the sweet and glamorous baroness in love with her "dad."

[@simonbowen1]

Thanks very much for posting that!

[@DavidRice111]

Great film- reminds me of Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief".

[@MarmiteCrumpets]

This is one of my favourites of Tom Wall's movies, many of which were stage farces, which didn't transpose well to the screen. Interesting how grotesque wealth and philanthropy were popular topics in the 1930s, although the obscenely rich nowadays are better camouflaged, and live well away from those they exploit.

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

Thank you, friendly neighborhood Spondonman.

[@ohmeowzer1]

Great movie

[@auletjohnast03638]

🔵MORAL OF THE STORY A 80 YEAR OLD MAN WITH A 30 YEAR OLD YOUNG LADY.🔴

[@douglasslater5192]

What ever works. I've seen beautiful women with fat ugly guys a wonder how it happened. But women will go with anyone. I don't like fat,or short hair,too short or fat stumpy calves. Or oversized brests or big butts, some do. So you see we all like different things.

[@ChrisCarlin-is8wv]

Gold digger

[@kurtporter1323]

Loved it , thanks

[@63bplumb]

It is a bit to wade through but worth it!

[@petermcgreevy6386]

At 14.22 Her husband is one of the cleverest businessmen of Australia. Being from Australia I thought it was special that with all the countries of the world that Australia was mentioned.....

[@fhbbi]

What's holding that monical on to his face? 15:55 mark

[@Lazarus0357]

+gary170459 What a wonderful movie, thanks a lot for uploading it! Regards

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

I see that I watched this film four years ago. Luckily I do not remember watching it. I would like to have seen Fred Astaire as the tap dancer at the party.

[@ssppeellll]

That was fun!

[@shirleyfunte3063]

a goodie show.

[@zboston3]

This seems to be the uncut British edition. When the film was released in the States, the Hollywood censors wanted the hospital scene cut (made Jack a sympathetic figure) and to have him caught at the end (can't have crooks getting away with it, or the girl)

[@geraldhard1562]

Hey that's a nice bit of information about the sensors not letting the crooks win . Ha ha

[@wayne9782]

@@geraldhard1562.... It's true. Government censorship.

[@jasoncollins1702]

Interesting to know!

[@greggi47]

@@wayne9782 Not government so much as the Catholic Church forcing the film industry to adopt a highly censorious production code as the price for continuing profits. It WAS government work in the UK, and the responsible agency let this pass.

[@653j521]

@@greggi47 In mid 1930s Italy Catholics were that influential, but they certainly were not in mid 1930s America, where Protestant preachers who had the moral power in America at that time when most of the population still lived in small towns and farms, denounced moving pictures from the pulpit, from the excesses of the silent era through the early talkies. Many people of any faith or no faith felt movies were going too far by the mid 1930s, running well ahead of what society was prepared to handle, with young viewers acting out what they saw as glamorous and exciting on the screen, from getting drunk on illegal booze and sleeping around, to drugs and thrill murder, which ended up in lurid copy in the equally out of control media, making celebrities out of the criminal and the debauched. All vices were on display as what everybody who was up to date was doing. The pendulum was swinging back toward conservatism (including passing Prohibition), until the public were fed up with the results of that and it swung again toward liberalism, and today it is back to conservatism with people posting how wonderful it is to watch a (censored) movie with no swearing, gore, or nudity (which was not true of many Pre Code movies), and most of us will live to see it swing again to preferring Pre Code.

[@conniemartin4878]

OMG fantastic print! How did you ever preserve this beautiful clarity from VHS?? Love love love, subscribing!

[@jamesmiller4184]

Only goes to prove that VHS always was (and will continue to be) the SUPERIOR mode of film program storage. LONG SHALL IT LIVE!!

[@kathypichey4306]

Thumbs down your language GODBLESS YOU

[@mariapiade-rozza6749]

Wonderful. Thank you I really enjoyed

[@colinmcmahon5829]

YESSS!!!! GOT THE POOL TABLE !!!

[@evanstj5]

Isn't the bell boy at 11.35 Jimmy Clitheroe ?

[@keithharvey7230]

No.

[@Pattwon]

Three men rob a millionaire of diamonds aboard an airliner in flight. When Police Superintendent Benting tries to intervene, Jack Drake, another passenger, knocks him out to save him from being shot. The thieves force the pilot to land so they can dump the passengers. However, the men find the diamonds have already been stolen by someone else (Drake). Drake is a sort of modern-day Robin Hood. He donates the proceeds of his latest robbery to fund the stalled construction of the "New Social Institute". He even writes a book, "Crackerjack": The true story of my exploits., which becomes a bestseller. Everybody is reading it, including the people at Scotland Yard and Baroness Von Haltz, and wondering if it is fact or fiction. The baroness tells her maid Annie that certain passages somehow remind her of Drake, who broke her heart. By coincidence, she is residing in the same hotel as Drake. He goes to see her, but she does not forgive him for leaving her without a word in Berlin. He explains that he was forced to leave suddenly, but she is not mollified. Meanwhile, Drake instructs Burdge, his secretary, to send a cheque for £10,000 to the Buckingham Hospital for a new wing, even though Burdge informs him he is overdrawn at the bank. Drake tells him that the wealthy Mrs. Humbold's pearls will provide ample funds. The Humbolds are hosting a masquerade ball that night, and the baroness will be there. At the ball, part of the entertainment is a group called the "Four Gangsters", who have been tied up and replaced by a gang of real gangsters, the same thieves from the aeroplane caper. Sculpie, their leader, kills an unarmed man who foolishly tries to resist. Afterward, however, Sculpie is furious to learn that the pearls he took from Mrs. Humbold are fakes. Once again, Drake has the real ones. An advertisement in the newspaper asking for Crackerjack's help intrigues Drake. He arranges to meet the person in trouble, who turns out to be the baroness, although he speaks with her indirectly, not face to face. She asks him to retrieve letters being used as blackmail by Hambro Golding. Drake is especially interested when she informs him that the letters prevent her from marrying. He promises to attend to the matter the next night. Unaware that Golding is actually a member of Sculpie's gang, she innocently informs him that Crackerjack will try to burgle his safe for the non-existent letters (Golding told her that Crackerjack had stolen his ring, a family heirloom). Sculpie is delighted. However, when the baroness returns for her forgotten handbag, she overhears the gang discussing Crackerjack's fate. Suspecting that Drake is Crackerjack, she tries to stop him by making a dinner engagement with him, but when he does not show up at the appointed time, she makes Burdge take her to Golding's place. Drake is caught, but manages to turn the tables on the gang. He has also arranged for the police to raid the house as well. Drake gets away and flies off with the baroness to get married.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

Why no synopsis?

[@ejr5480]

Good fun!

[@warrenwilson4818]

Lilli Palmer was so charming in this film. She didn't age well. Later movies she wasn't charming. She did have a great small part in Marathon Man where she played the Jewess who was across the busy street from Laurence Olivier hollering loud that he was the "Weis Angel," the White Angel of Nazi fame (in the movie, of course.)

[@Glitches59.]

8:23 I want that bathroom. 😍

[@mortdewerewolfe691]

Why wasn't this done as a series?

[@misfit2022]

Jack Walls adds some English charm to a film which was desperately needed as the villain is a tad one dimensional.

[@keithharvey7230]

Tom

[@misfit2022]

@Keith I think I got mixed up between his character’s name and his correct name which isn’t a mistake I would usually make especially being familiar with Undercover, an early outing for Ealing, Second Best Bed, Johnny Frenchman etc so I can only apologise for such a silly mistake.

[@cynk956]

So annoying when there isn't a synopsis: A gentleman thief poses as a butler to outsmart a gang of criminals while falling in love with a baroness. IMDb

[@alphaomega8373]

Cornball heaven.

[@dennisday2049]

1:14:41 What's with the steering wheel doing on the left side? Inverted film like I have in 'The Green Glove'?

[@mindyvaughn8217]

That will teach the cheapskate to charter his own plane in the future.

[@friguy4444]

And all the world has to offer for "Entertainment" or "Talent" these days are DJ's. Or I should say lack of talent. "Oh look I can put on a record and my computer can mix a a bunch of data together". Woop tee doo. It's so sad that people think that's entertainment now.

[@653j521]

Who thinks that??

[@sheibanineda2488]

Unfortunately millions ​@653j521

[@stephaniehand503]

great

[@steplumpkin5432]

GOOD STUFF!!!!!!!

[@waderaney7]

A good 🎥in a fine clear print 😀

[@mickeybitsko1676]

Nice

[@normanwilliams3559]

Good movie.cracker Jack could have been a little younger though

[@jeanneannvalfre9581]

Must see….⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@oceanlounge2617]

our new system in the new era

[@bigred997]

similar to the Raffles movie. cute.

[@ThePaul3333]

Great movie !

[@oceanlounge2617]

they trying to STEAL OUR CROWN

[@daffy2u]

Great tunes in intro flying over the clouds. White boy Hijackers of the 30's!

[@dougwilliams8602]

Very entertaining

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

Just imagine jack arriving to take YOUR daughter out,! 🥴😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍🇬🇧

[@karenblackwood5883]

Old films have old men with young beautiful women

[@greggi47]

Have things changed? Jackie Kennedy and Onassis, and the general reality of poopsies and Old Men On Boats. In this case, he's not as old as you seem to imagine.

[@keithharvey7230]

Bing Crosby in White Christmas and High Society.

[@sheibanineda2488]

​@@keithharvey7230and all the actual Holywood famous actors who in their 60's and 70's are marrying bimbos younger than their daughters from their first marriage without turning a hair; completely indecent and ridiculous😂😂

[@oceanlounge2617]

1938 my grandpa