The Speckled Band(1931)
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
A struggling composer has to be supported financially by his wealthier wife.
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
A penniless Irishman becomes the business partner of an English aristocrat with a penchant for high-stakes gambling.
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Hauptmann Stephen Sorrell kehrt nach Ende des ersten Weltkriegs heim nach London. Seine lebenslustige Frau Dora verlässt ihn wg. eines anderen Mannes. Sorrell steht allein mit seinem Sohn Kit. Der Hauptmann ist verarmt, krank und arbeitslos. Dennoch versucht er alles, um seinem Sohn Kit ein vornehmes Internat zu ermöglichen. Dafür nimmt er jede Erniedrigung in Kauf. Im Internat findet Dora Sorrell Kit wieder. Sie versucht, die Liebe des Jungen zu erkaufen- doch Kit erkennt die Verlogenheit seiner Mutter. Inzwischen hat es Kid zu einem Chirurgen gebracht. Er kehrt zu seinem Vater zurück, der mittlerweile mit einer anderen Frau zusammenlebt. An seinem Sterbebett schickt der Hauptmann seinen Sohn in ein Leben voll erfüllender Liebe.
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
A Yorkshireman comes to London to watch the FA Cup final and loses his money and tickets, leading to a frantic search to recover them...
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape.
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.
A British silent adventure directed by Herbert Wilcox.
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.
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease.
The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a note to Vicki and goes off to war. Unfortunately the note is lost. Some time after the war, Max is just a shoe shop assistant while Vicki is now a famous singer. They meet and at first she snubs him but then falls in love with him again.
During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards.
An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, social-climbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife "does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her".