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Marquis of Gleneyre
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1963
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1950
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, George, Duke of Bristol
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1944
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The Shipbuilders is a rare film of true merit from prolific British "quota quickie" director John Baxter. Clive Brook heads...
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Leslie Pagan
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1943
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The Flemish Farm is based on a true story. Clifford Evnas plays Duclos, a Belgian airman who joins the British air corps at...
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Maj. Lessart
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1943
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In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to...
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Dr. Karl Roder
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1941
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Peter Conroy
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1941
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A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by...
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Robert Maine
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1940
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Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing...
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Capt. Armitage
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1940
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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Sir Hubert Ware
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1938
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This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at...
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Maj. George Daviot
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1937
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When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In...
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King Regis VI
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1936
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Released in the U.S. as Scotland Yard Commands, The Lonely Road was based on a novel by Nevil Shute (of On the Beach fame)....
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Cmdr. Malcolm Stevenson
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1936
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Dr. Frederick Struensee
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1935
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Dressed to Thrill was a brave but foredoomed attempt to transform Russian musical favorite Tutta Rolf into a Hollywood movie...
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Bill Trent
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1935
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In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high...
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Struensee
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1935
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Mr. Latimer
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1934
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In this drama, a doctor and his wife find themselves dreaming of others and thinking about divorce. The wife decides to sow...
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Dr. Jack Overton
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1934
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Dan
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1934
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The only Academy Award winning picture for Fox Studios (in its pre-20th Century-Fox era), Cavalcade is a stately film...
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Robert Marryot
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1933
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The melodrama If I Were Free was adapted from the play Behold, We Live by John Van Druten. War veteran lawyer Gordon Evers...
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Gordon Evers
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1933
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Everybody in The Midnight Club is seeing double, and it's all the handiwork of slick London criminal mastermind Colin Grant...
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Colin Grant
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1933
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This version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famed tale is set in contemporary London and follows Holmes and Watson as they seek...
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Sherlock Holmes
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1932
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The "Enoch Arden" theme is trotted out and slicked up for The Man From Yesterday. Nurse Claudette Colbert marries army doctor...
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Capt. Tony Clyde
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1932
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Captain Donald Harvey
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1932
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A multi-character drama set in a suburban neighborhood, The Night of June 13th takes place in four households. One of these...
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John Curry
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1932
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Joan Blondell, borrowed for the occasion from Warner Bros., earned top-billing in this delightful Hollywood parable, but the...
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1932
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Mark Flint (George Bancroft) is the editor of the titular scandal sheet, possessing all of the gall and none of the ethics of...
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Noel Adams
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1931
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Murder, blackmail and honor are the principal plot motivations of Silence. Clive Brook stars as Jim Warren, a gentleman thief...
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Jim Warren
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1931
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Whenever a vaudeville comic of the 1920s wanted to get a quick laugh, he'd announce to his audience "Next Week: East Lynne."...
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Capt. Levinson
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1931
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The patience of a long-suffering wife is finally rewarded in this drama. The devoted wife has known that her husband has...
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George Boyd
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1931
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24 Hours is all it takes for tippling married man Jim Towner (Clive Brook) to go from social respectability to convict...
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Jim Towner
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1931
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Renowned American-born London stage star Tallulah Bankhead made her feature sound film debut in this drama based on...
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Norman Cravath
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1931
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In this courtroom drama, a lawyer defends his sister's fiance after he is accused of murder. The lawyer knows his client is...
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Drake Norris
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1931
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Other Men's Wives, a play by Walter Hackett, was the source for this early-talkie comedy-melodrama. The scene is a sinister...
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Reginald De Brett
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1930
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In this drama, a prominent society woman causes a scandal when she begins a torrid affair with the dashing lifeguard who...
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Daniel Farr
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1930
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In this sassy romantic comedy, Clive Brook plays Neil Dunlap, a lawyer who is heartbroken when his wife leaves him. Neil is...
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Neil Dunlap
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1930
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Passing herself off as a countess, glamorous Lucy Stavrin (Evelyn Brent) hobnobs with the rich and famous along the French...
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Hon. Courtenay Parkes
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1930
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Considered the best of the all-star "studio" musicals of 1929 and 1930, Paramount on Parade utilized the talents of...
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1930
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The "dangerous woman" of the title is Tania Gregory, played by the magnificent Olga Baclanova. The Russian-born wife of...
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Frank Gregory
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1929
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Ace detective Sherlock Holmes speaks for the first time in a film and utters his trademark line "Elementary, dear Watson,...
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Sherlock Holmes
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1929
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Robert Miles
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1929
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A criminal with a conscience will go to any lengths to give his daughter a better life in this silent drama. "Heliotrope...
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Heliotrope Harry Harlow
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1928
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Paramount's first all-talking picture, Interference was dismally directed by Roy Pomeroy, whose lofty status as the studio's...
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Sir John Marlay
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1928
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Michael Bream
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1928
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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...
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Lt. Durrance
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1928
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Dr. Benson
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1928
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The tiny but voluptuous chassis of Clara Bow is given ample display in the exotic romance Hula. The story takes place in...
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Anthony Haldane
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1928
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Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of...
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Archduke Alexander
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1928
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Barbed Wire was based on The Woman of Knockaloe, an antiwar novel by Sir Hall Caine. The original novel dealt with the...
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Oskar
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1927
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Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets...
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"Rolls Royce"
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1927
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Sir Reginald Befsize
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1927
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The same year H.B. Warner portrayed Jesus Christ in The King of Kings, he let down his hair in the drawing-room comedy French...
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Henri de Briac
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1927
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Hip-swinging danseuse Gilda Gray, the girl who created the late-'20s dance craze "The Shimmy," plays the provocatively...
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Stephan
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1927
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According to this frothy comedy, the "popular sin" is infidelity, especially in Paris. Philandering husband George Montfort...
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Jean Corot
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1926
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Ivan Norodin
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1926
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1926
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Though For Alimony Only was technically a Cecil B. DeMille production, it was directed by DeMille's less-flamboyant brother...
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Peter Williams
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1926
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Rudolph Solomon
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1925
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While it seems extremely tame now, Clive Arden's novel was considered quite racy in its day. While doing relief work in...
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1925
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F.B.O. was primarily known for its Westerns and low-budget programmers, but the film company did make an attempt at creating...
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Joseph Woodbury
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1925
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This silent drama, based on the novel by the Countess de Chambrun, had quite a few unusual twists. Amy and Matthew Dale...
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Matthew Dale, Sr.
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1925
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Tad Workman
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1925
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Forever forced to take a back seat to her pretty, popular younger sister Pauline Garon, Irene Rich manages to land handsome...
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Alan Thayer
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1925
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Love had already grown cold for Natacha Rambova and her ex-husband, Rudolph Valentino, when this film came out. Why Rambova,...
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1925
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This hilariously convoluted comedy was Lewis Milestone's first film as a director. He's also responsible for the screenplay,...
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Jerry Winters
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1925
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After leaving D.W.Griffith's stock company, Henry B. Walthall tended to flounder for several years in such indifferent...
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The woman-hater
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1925
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Although this film sounds like a 1920s version of Mr. Mom, in some ways it's more enlightened than the 1983 comedy -- for one...
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Lester Knapp
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1925
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There is nothing original about this drama -- it's the old tale of the small-town girl who heads for the bright lights of the...
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Henry Gait
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1925
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This adaptation of Kathleen Norris' best-selling novel came out just weeks before its producer, Thomas Ince, mysteriously...
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Dr. Alan Monteagle
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1924
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Alfred Hitchcock provided the screenplay for this drama about marital discord between the aristocrat Adrian St. Clair...
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Adrien St. Clair
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1924
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Willful Nancy Brent (Betty Compson) is bored with life in the country so she runs away. Her father (A.B. Imeson) goes looking...
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1924
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A lot of money was spent on this romantic melodrama -- enough so that part of it was actually filmed in France. Then again,...
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Marchmont
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1924
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Joan Thayer (Marjorie Daw) is a struggling artist who is fired from her job in a seedy French cabaret. She is escorted home...
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1924
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In his last British-made silent, debonair leading man Clive Brook played a man of the world who convinces his mistress (Nina...
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1924
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King Charles (Henry Victor) flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell (Henry Ainley) close...
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1923
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Betty Compson traveled to England to star in this expensively-made society drama. Louise Boucher (Compson) is a Parisian...
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David Compton
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1923
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For the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, women were expected to sacrifice all their aspirations in favor of...
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1923
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1923
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Anthony Barraclough (Clive Brook) is the unemployed worker hired to impersonate a secret-agent trying to steal valuable...
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1923
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1922
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Hollywood's Evelyn Brent brightened the proceedings of the pedestrian British silent The Experiment. Brent and her future...
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1922
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1922
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1920
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