Directing
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 France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
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.
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand in the way of finding that record.
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.
'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)
'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)
A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.
Quota quickie comic short from Britain that is now lost.
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