Spy of Napoleon

Spy of Napoleon 1936

1

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.

1936

Scrooge

Scrooge 1935

6.10

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

1935

Juggernaut

Juggernaut 1936

4.20

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

1936

The Vicar of Bray

The Vicar of Bray 1937

5.50

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.

1937

Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms 1936

6.00

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.

1936

A Fire Has Been Arranged

A Fire Has Been Arranged 1935

5.80

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.

1935

The Sleeping Cardinal

The Sleeping Cardinal 1931

5.20

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.

1931

Beauty and the Barge

Beauty and the Barge 1937

6.40

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain.

1937

The Man in the Mirror

The Man in the Mirror 1936

7.00

A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.

1936

Dusty Ermine

Dusty Ermine 1936

6.10

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

1936

I Lived with You

I Lived with You 1933

5.40

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.

1933

The Missing Rembrandt

The Missing Rembrandt 1932

1

Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.

1932

Black Coffee

Black Coffee 1931

6.00

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

1931

Frail Women

Frail Women 1932

4.70

An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.

1932

Condemned to Death

Condemned to Death 1932

1

A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.

1932

Bella Donna

Bella Donna 1934

3.50

That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.

1934

Death on the Set

Death on the Set 1935

1

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

1935

Silver Blaze

Silver Blaze 1937

5.50

Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.

1937