Movies: Sydney Fairbrother

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

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....

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

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets,...

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

'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)...

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play...

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

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

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

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

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...

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child....

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...

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...

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

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Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight....