Acting
Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
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A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alone by her constantly touring husband, she inaugurates a romance with brilliant but reclusive violinist Miguel de Vaye (Raymond Massey).
A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie is faced with the tasks of ensuring success for his stable's Derby entry, paying the salaries of his newly-acquired wrestlers, and avoiding a plot to convert the stables into a holiday home.
Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.
A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham
