Sydney Fairbrother

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play

A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.

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...

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)

'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...

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale.

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...

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon...

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays...

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

Two women win £130,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. They use their winnings to establish an oyster bar, but soon become the target of a phony count who...

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...

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the...

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.

A clerk's service as subaltern spoils him for menial work.

Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a...

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

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.