Movies: Sydney Fairbrother

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

'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)...

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa....

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

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......

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

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 alo...

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play...

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

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 entir...

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...

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

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham...

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 mot...

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

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....

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

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

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

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