Movies: Lupino Lane

Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage mu...

Bill Snibson, a chancer from Lambeth Walk in South London, is informed that he has been discovered to be the long-lost heir to a title and castle which he can claim provided he is able to convince his new relations that he has enough aristocratic bea...

Short comedy set in a haunted hotel. Filmed using "Kinekature" which provides lens distortion....

A henpecked husband takes his wife and her children to Blackpool, where confusion reigns....

A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman....

Widow makes son pose as boy to appear younger to professor, but he is to wed professor's daughter....

Lupino Lane as part of the Mounties catching crooks....

A young man faces perilous adventures when he is evicted from his apartment....

Lane plays two roles: Grand Duke Algy Horseradish De Ketchup of Worcestershire and Newsboy White. The newsboy is hired by Elmer Éclair (played by Lane's younger brother, Walter Lupino) to impersonate the Duke for unstated reasons, and to attend a hou...

Lupino and his wife Helen are honeymooning in Morocco and the local Caliph wants to add Helen to his harem. Lupino saves her, loses her again and saves her again....

Comic hijinks on a pirate ship with British comedian Lupino Lane....

An actor impersonates a duchess – with truly astonishing results for him and his company!...

A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!...

The Dude and his younger brother, The Rival are at it once again....

Lupino Lane, an apprentice blacksmith, must fight an imported boxing champion, lest the vile squire call in the mortgage and repossess the village smithy....

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood....

The short starts with a duel in the Old South wherein a man inadvertently saves one of the duelist's lives for which he is given a watch. Years pass and we next see the grandson, impoverished and heading to the big city for work (taking the watch wit...

A well-dressed but inebriated man decides to attend a variety show at the Palace Theatre. During the show, both he and the performers are continually harassed by a practical joke-loving boy who is sitting in a box seat near the stage. Soon the inebri...

Posing as an aristocrat to crash a party, a composer stumbles upon a gang of jewel thieves working unnoticed upstairs....

Fandango, a short Lane made for Educational Pictures in 1928. It's pleasant enough, and amusing at times, as long as you don't require a plot or expect dimensional characters. If you want basic silent comedy chuckles, you'll get them. Our setting is ...