Acting
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
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'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
