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'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)
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.
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.
A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.
BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play
Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entire inheritance.
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.
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
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).
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
