Acting
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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'Soldier poses as dead captain to comfort blind mother while girl poses as dead Jew's wife to comfort family.' (British Film Catalogue)
Harold Armytage is disowned, then framed for murder by his conniving cousin, Clifford, to steal his inheritance. After escaping jail, Harold rescues his wife, Bess, and brings the true villains to justice.
A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
Lost film. David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.
A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
A sensuous woman trapped in a loveless relationship has an affair with a leading politician which threatens to bring down the government.
Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
An occult scientist tries to steal a collector's Chinese staff.
A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.
