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Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo.
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A man poses as a baron, reconciles a couple, sells a corn cure, adopts a child, and marries a spinster.
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.
Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.
The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
An amoral young dancer falls in love with a band leader.
A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.
Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by British International Pictures at Elstree Studios. It was based on Stanley Lupino's own hit 1929 stage musical.
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trains. Allan has his song-writing friend Bill to write a song of the incident and he has it broadcast. Juliet, through the hints provided in the song, responds and comes to Allan's home, where he is working on a safety-match invention.
Dastardly deeds are afoot when rivals for the hand of a young woman vie against each other in a bicycle race.
Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
Struggling theatricals in a boarding house.
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes unintentionally comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
