Broken Blossoms 1936
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young man, of Romani descent, returns to his hometown of Gloucester. He is met by local garage mechanic, Dunleavy. They embrace, smiling. But what past does the young man carry with him? What awaits him back amongst people he doesn't really understand and who don't understand him? And what lurks in the forest, watching, silent, old as the trees?
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
One of John Mills' earliest roles as a wastrel playboy.
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)
A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)