Movies by Leslie S. Hiscott

The Butler's Dilemma

The Butler's Dilemma

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...

The Passing of Mr. Quinn

The Passing of Mr. Quinn

Black Coffee

Black Coffee

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

The Face at the Window

The Face at the Window

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

Gay Love

Gay Love

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.

A Safe Proposition

A Safe Proposition

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A Tight Corner

A Tight Corner

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Once bitten

Once bitten

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

The Crooked Lady

The Crooked Lady

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

Sabotage at Sea

Sabotage at Sea

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.

Alibi

Alibi

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

The Feather

The Feather

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

Murder at Covent Garden

Murder at Covent Garden

A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.

The Call of the Sea

The Call of the Sea

Lt. Cmdr. Good is a naval officer who goes on an extensive search for his long-lost friend who mysteriously disappeared on a tropical island.

A Night in Montmartre

A Night in Montmartre

A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.

The Missing Rembrandt

The Missing Rembrandt

Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.