Nelson Keys

A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.

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Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.

A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!

A pacifist gambler turns spy and gives his father's gas factory plans to the enemy.

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.

'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

A British comedy film directed by Henry Edwards

'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)

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