Acting
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
A soap factory heir poses as a worker to reform conditions, and is saved from an anarchist by a flower girl.
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
Gypsy dancer Dolores flees an arranged marriage and faces ruin by a count. After her admirer kills the count the other gypsies swoop in to save her from destruction.
“Take a trip away from the hustle and bustle and travel by rail to take in the sights of Shakespeare country.” - BFI.
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
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