Acting
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
NBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play Gaslight
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
A burglar blackmails an actress who thinks she killed her husband.
An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes friends. The Earl of Killarney, Fitzhugh's uncle, who is on his deathbed, wishes to see his favorite nephew and wipe out past animosities. Fitzhugh, in the meantime, has disappeared, and his sister, Lady Gwendolyn, persuades Tom to take his place.
When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.
