Directing

Graham Cutts

Born — Died

1885-01-01 — 1958-09-07

Place of birth

Brighton, Sussex, England, UK

Known for

Directing

Credits

37 titles

John Henry Graham Cutts (1884–1956) was a writer, director and producer who worked in fledgling British film industry, initially for Graham-Wilcox Productions, then for Balcon, Freedman & Saville (1923) and Gainsborough (1924-29), before directing less frequently for various British film companies during the 1930s. During the mid-to-late 1920s, he was regularly referred to as "England's greatest director" by the British press. His daughter was actress Patricia Cutts (1926–1974). Cutts worked with many leading figures in the UK film and stage world, including Basil Dean, Alfred Hitchcock, Gracie Fields, Ivor Novello, and Noël Coward.

Known for

Paddy The Next Best Thing poster
8.0

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

Paddy The Next Best Thing

1923

The Triumph of the Rat poster
6.6

Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...

The Triumph of the Rat

1926

Flames of Passion poster
10.0

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.

Flames of Passion

1922

Car of Dreams poster
6.1

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

Car of Dreams

1935

Three Men in a Boat poster
7.5

An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.

Three Men in a Boat

1933

Cocaine poster
8.0

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

Cocaine

1922

Behind the camera

Paddy The Next Best Thing poster
8.0

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

Paddy The Next Best Thing

1923

The Triumph of the Rat poster
6.6

Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...

The Triumph of the Rat

1926

The Triumph of the Rat poster
6.6

Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...

The Triumph of the Rat

1926

Flames of Passion poster
10.0

Dorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.

Flames of Passion

1922

Car of Dreams poster
6.1

Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...

Car of Dreams

1935

Three Men in a Boat poster
7.5

An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames.

Three Men in a Boat

1933

Cocaine poster
8.0

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

Cocaine

1922

Oh, Daddy! poster
6.0

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

Oh, Daddy!

1935

The Return of the Rat poster
6.6

The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....

The Return of the Rat

1929

No artwork available
9.0

A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.

She Couldn't Say No

1939

Aren't Men Beasts! poster
7.0

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

Aren't Men Beasts!

1937

Looking on the Bright Side poster
7.0

Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.

Looking on the Bright Side

1932

The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case poster
4.8

A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.

The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case

1932

Over She Goes poster
7.0

Three friends plan to marry their sweethearts, but when the former fiancée of one of them shows up threatening breach of promise because she's after his aristocratic title, they must think on their toes and resurrect his dead uncle, leading to comedic chaos.

Over She Goes

1937

The Queen Was in the Parlour poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Queen Was in the Parlour

1927

The Queen Was in the Parlour poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Queen Was in the Parlour

1927

No artwork available
8.0

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.

The Prude's Fall

1925

The Blackguard poster
7.5

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

The Blackguard

1925

No artwork available
10.0

A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.

As Good as New

1933

The Rat poster
8.5

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.

The Rat

1925

The Rat poster
8.5

When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.

The Rat

1925

The White Shadow poster
7.5

In Paris, a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.

The White Shadow

1924

Let's Make a Night of It poster
6.0

Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.

Let's Make a Night of It

1937

No artwork available
7.0

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investigating a rival candidates conspiracy. Their involvement causes the boy's father to win the elections.

Just William

1940

The Passionate Adventure poster
8.0

A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.

The Passionate Adventure

1924

No artwork available
10.0

Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love.

Love on the Spot

1932

Woman to Woman poster
5.8

Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.

Woman to Woman

1923

Woman to Woman poster
5.8

Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.

Woman to Woman

1923

Miss Knowall poster
NR

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

Miss Knowall

1940

The Rolling Road poster
8.0

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.

The Rolling Road

1927

The Temperance Fête poster
8.0

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

The Temperance Fête

1932

The Wonderful Story poster
8.0

A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.

The Wonderful Story

1922

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Glorious Youth

1928

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Confetti

1928

The Cabaret Kid poster
10.0

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.

The Cabaret Kid

1926

The Cabaret Kid poster
10.0

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.

The Cabaret Kid

1926

No artwork available
NR

An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.

Rationing in Britain

1945