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.
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
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.
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (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.
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.
Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of Sir Percival's scheming in order to get her fortune.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (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.....
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.
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.
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
A British drama film set inside a teacher training college and directed by Ivar Campbell
An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.