Movies

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...

An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.

A woman disapproves of her stepson's love for a girl who goes mad when her drunken father dies in a landslide.

'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)

A shepherdess becomes an opera star. A shepherd becomes a sculptor.

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

'A widowed lady, forced into marriage, grows to love her husband when he saves a child from the cliff.' (BFI Filmography)

A young woman inherits a soap factory from her father, and struggles to keep it open.[

British crime film directed by Henry Edwards

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

Two aristocrats become engaged but fall in love with people from a lower class.

Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her...

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his...

Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.