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In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
In this episode of the British silent crime serial, Ultus makes an alliance with the Grey Lady, who is a fellow victim of the villain Eugene Lester
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
In the Antilles, old Tyler finds a treasure map and sets sail with his ship, the Sarah Tyler, and its crew composed of only two children: Satan and Jude.
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.
A British musical film directed by George Pearson
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)
Sherlock Holmes solves a murder rooted in the Mormon trek of 1850.
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
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This British short, distributed in the United States by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, runs ten minutes (which is longer than the incorrect and absurd 3-minutes running time currently attached to it on site)is basically a filmed stage show of the popular Scottish singer Harry Lauder, appearing in a theater filled with Lauder fans,doing his comic act and monologue and singing, including the title song. He does "The End of the Road" as an encore.
Quota quickie comic short from Britain that is now lost.
