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
8.0A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Paddy The Next Best Thing
1923
6.6Pierre 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
10.0Dorothy, 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
6.1Produced 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
7.5An 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
8.0A 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
8.0A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Paddy The Next Best Thing
1923
6.6Pierre 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
6.6Pierre 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
10.0Dorothy, 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
6.1Produced 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
7.5An 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
8.0A 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
6.0Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
Oh, Daddy!
1935
6.6The 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
A woman arranges a burglary to try to recover a stolen diary with compromising details written in it.
She Couldn't Say No
1939
7.0Two 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
7.0Gracie 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
4.8A 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
7.0Three 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
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Queen Was in the Parlour
1927
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Queen Was in the Parlour
1927
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
7.5A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
The Blackguard
1925
A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
As Good as New
1933
8.5When 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
8.5When 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
7.5In Paris, a wild girl becomes possessed by the soul of her twin who died to save her life.
The White Shadow
1924
6.0Unbeknown 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
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
8.0A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
The Passionate Adventure
1924
Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love.
Love on the Spot
1932
5.8Lost 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
5.8Lost 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
NRShort government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
Miss Knowall
1940
8.0A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.
The Rolling Road
1927
8.0For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.
The Temperance Fête
1932
8.0A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.
The Wonderful Story
1922
No synopsis available yet.
Glorious Youth
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Confetti
1928
10.0A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
The Cabaret Kid
1926
10.0A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.
The Cabaret Kid
1926
An explanation for American audiences of what rationing means to ordinary British families.
Rationing in Britain
1945
