Directing

Albert de Courville

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Shanghai Gesture poster
6.2

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

The Shanghai Gesture

1941

Things Are Looking Up poster
6.5

A scatterbrained circus lady must cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

Things Are Looking Up

1935

No artwork available
7.0

This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.

Wild Boy

1934

Under the Leather Helmet poster
7.0

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to begin fighting among themselves, resulting in disaster for all concerned.

Under the Leather Helmet

1932

This Is the Life poster
9.0

This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made at Beaconsfield Studios by British Lion.

This Is the Life

1933

No artwork available
7.0

Instead of accepting a well-to-do suitor, an orphan marries a tramp as a bet, but he turns out to be an English peer on the run for a murder he did not commit.

Strangers on Honeymoon

1936

Oh, Boy! poster
9.0

A mysterious scientist presents a timid chemist with an elixir which turns him from a weakling into a confident, vital male, able to defeat his rival and impress the girl of his choice. The only problem is that this mysterious substance has the unexpected result of causing him to revert gradually to babyhood...

Oh, Boy!

1938

There Goes the Bride poster
6.5

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...

There Goes the Bride

1932

No artwork available
2.0

English-language version or remake of the German film, TRUXA (1937).

Star of the Circus

1938

The Rebel Son poster
8.0

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.

The Rebel Son

1938

77 Park Lane poster
NR

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.

77 Park Lane

1931

No artwork available
9.0

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.

The Case of Gabriel Perry

1935

No artwork available
7.0

British drama film directed by Albert de Courville.

Charing Cross Road

1935

The Midshipmaid poster
7.0

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

The Midshipmaid

1932

Wolves poster
8.0

An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape

Wolves

1930

An Englishman's Home poster
8.0

A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.

An Englishman's Home

1940

Seven Sinners poster
6.2

Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.

Seven Sinners

1936

Crackerjack poster
6.1

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.

Crackerjack

1938

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

77, rue Chalgrin

1931

The Lambeth Walk poster
9.0

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 bearing. Things soon begin to go awry however, particularly when Sally, Bill's girlfriend from Lambeth, turns up.

The Lambeth Walk

1939

No artwork available
NR

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he picks a fight with her and an aggressive client, Julot, leading to tragedy for all three.

Night Shadows

1931