A.E.W. MasonFilmography

Born:: May 7, 1865 in London, England
Occupation:: Book Author
Biography:: A.E.W. Mason may not stand alongside Ernest Hemingway or even Rudyard Kipling in the hierarchy of academically respected novelists, but he can be credited with authorship of what is likely the most filmed novel of the 20th century, The Four Feathers. Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was born in London...Read More

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The Four Feathers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson, Djimon Hounsou

Synopsis: A.E.W. Mason's perennially popular tale of honor and adventure is brought to the screen yet again in this lavish period action-drama. In 1884, Harry Feversham (Heath Ledger) is a young officer-in-training in the British Army who is soon to graduate and is expected to be shipped of to the Sudan Read More

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The Four Feathers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: This fifth film version of A.E.W. Mason's "Sun Never Sets" adventure novel The Four Feathers was adapted for television by Gerald DiPego. Following the death of British general "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum, 19th-century gentleman officer Harry Favershem (Beau Bridges) is summoned to active duty in Read More

1977
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Crystal Trench

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This poignant playlet is based on a story by A.E.W. Mason, of The Four Feathers fame. After the death of her husband in a freak mountain accident in Switzerland, Stella Ballister (Patricia Owens) solemnly vows to remain faithful to her spouse's memory. Twenty years pass, and throughout all that Read More

1959
Storm Over the Nile

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Anthony Steel, Laurence Harvey, Mary Ure, Ronald Lewis, Ian Carmichael, James Robertson Justice

Synopsis: This fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason's adventure yarn The Four Feathers relies heavily on stock footage from the more famous 1939 adaptation (both were produced by Alexander Korda and codirected by Korda's brother Zoltan). Anthony Steel stars as 19th cntury British officer Harry Faversham, who Read More

1955
The House of the Arrow

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: House of the Arrow is the third film version of the classic A.E.W. Mason mystery novel. A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home. Inspector Hanaud (Oscar Homolka), a Columbo-like methodical detective, investigates. Far be it from us to reveal the murderer, but we can reveal the method of Read More

1953
House of Mystery

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Kenneth Kent, Judy Kelly, Peter Murray Hill, Walter Rilia, Ruth Maitland

Synopsis: The modest but intriguing British melodrama At the Villa Rose was released in the U.S. by Monogram and given the more prosaic title House of Mystery. A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those Read More

1941
House of the Arrow

Crew: Book Author

1940
Castle of Crimes

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Kenneth Kent, Diana Churchill, Belle Chrystal, Clifford Evans

Synopsis: As part of a reciprocal deal, teeny-tiny PRC Pictures released several Associated British-Pathe films to American theaters. One of these was Castle of Crimes, featuring Kenneth Kent as A.E.W. Mason's famed professional sleuth Inspector Hanaud. The story concerns a wealthy recluse (Louise Hampton) Read More

1940
The Four Feathers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez, Allan Jeayes

Synopsis: This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in the silent era. Harry Faversham (John Clements) is the son of a military man who expects his son to follow in his footsteps on the fields of battle. Gen. Burroughs (C. Read More

1939
The Drum

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson, David Tree

Synopsis: The Drum is an opulent Technicolor "British India" epic, based on a story by A.E.W. Mason (of Four Feathers fame). Teenaged actor Sabu stars as a young East Indian prince educated in England. By rights, his loyalties should lie with his countrymen, but in typical "Sun Never Sets" fashion most of Read More

1938
Fire Over England

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh

Synopsis: The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over England. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval officer who offers his services to Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) after his father is executed by the Spaniards. The queen Read More

1937
The Widow from Monte Carlo

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Warren William, Dolores Del Rio, Louise Fazenda, Colin Clive, Herbert Mundin

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter. This letter could destroy her upcoming nuptials to a stuffy Englishman. The duchess enlists the Read More

1936
Her Imaginary Lover

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: New Yorker La Plante concocts an imaginary fiance with the name of Lord Michael of Ware to keep the deluge of admirers away. When she travels to London to accept an inheritance she discovers that her "fiance" actually exists! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1933
The Flirting Widow

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Dorothy Mackaill, Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, William Austin

Synopsis: Basil Rathbone unexpectedly plays the romantic lead in The Flirting Widow. Dorothy Mackaill stars as a wealthy young lady whose father has forbidden her younger sister (Leila Hyams) to marry before Dorothy does. To help sis out, Dorothy "invents" a husband, whom she claims is a British colonel Read More

1930
The House of the Arrow

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Neilson-Terry is called in to investigate the poisoning of a wealthy woman at her French home. The number one suspect is her niece who got a large inheritance upon the death of her aunt. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1930
Mystery at the Villa Rose

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Austin Trevor, Richard Cooper, Francis Lister, John Hamilton

Synopsis: A mystery develops when some jewels are stolen from a wealthy widow and she is murdered, with the blame wrongly falling on a phony psychic friend of hers. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

1930
Le Mystère De La Villa Rose

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Helena Manson, Leon Mathot, Georges Péclet

1929
The Four Feathers

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the last rendering during the silent era. Here, Richard Arlen stars as Harry Faversham, the British officer who resigns rather than fight against rebels in Egypt. When four of Read More

1928
The Winding Stair

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Warner Oland, Mahlon Hamilton, Emily Fitzroy

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Julian LaMothe, The Winding Stair stars Edmund Lowe as Paul, a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command Read More

1925