Eliot Stannard
Writing
Biography
Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. Stannard wrote the screenplay for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He also directed five films. During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known For

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
The Manxman

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
Champagne

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
The Farmer's Wife

Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
The Pleasure Garden

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Easy Virtue

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.
Downhill

In the Kentucky hills, a schoolteacher becomes caught in a bitter feud between a widower, his crippled son, and a reclusive hermit. Accusations and jealousy drive her into hiding, leading to love and revenge. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this 1926 romantic drama is now considered lost and remains one of the BFI’s most sought-after missing films.
The Mountain Eagle

An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
General Post

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
Tommy Atkins
British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
The Toilers

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Paddy The Next Best Thing

Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
The American Prisoner
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
Her Luck in London
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Heartstrings

In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
Above Rubies

A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
Build Thy House
A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
Nets of Destiny
In Scotland an orphan competes with a prince for the chief's daughter and saves her from a wicked duke.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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.