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.
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame threatens to eclipse his own, he jealously strives to control every aspect of her life - including her romance with theatre electrician Paul Lebrun.
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
British crime film directed by Henry Edwards
A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice
'Ex-pilot bandleader helps starving composer regain memory.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
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.
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Splinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.