Sydney Fairbrother

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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).

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

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

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.

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 attempts to swindle them.

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play

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

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...

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

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

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

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

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

A jilted rich man poses as a tramp and falls in love with an orphan.

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

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 theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mother and guilt ridden arranges for a band of gypsies to shoot him.

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

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A Lord's son loves the daughter of a counterfeiter who steals necklaces.

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

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

Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.

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