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'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)
British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
An IRA man races to Dublin to warn his colleagues of a forthcoming raid, but he is captured by British forces.
HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.
Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in America. Complications arise when a guest at a hydrotherapy clinic is bitten by a parrot and, in a fit of pique, encourages the bird to bite every other male guest at the facility.
The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.
Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying him. But when the body of Margaret's missing father is discovered, it leads Denis to suspect his wife of murder.
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
Here is the story of two friends who instead of going all the way up to London from their respective coastal towns decided to spend a day shopping at Kennards.
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
A usurper tries to force his niece's suitor to lose a horse race.
A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.
A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.
A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
A British adventure film directed by George King
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
