Philip StrangeFilmography

Jury's Evidence

Actors: Hartley Power, Margaret Lockwood, Nora Swinburne, Sebastian Shaw, Jane Millican

Synopsis: One man's attempts to convince his fellow jurors of the defendant's innocence provides the basis of this drama. The others point out that all the evidence presented proves his guilt, but the man is not swayed. Finally he asks them to reconstruct the crime. They do and find out that the holdout is Read More

Loyalties

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Heather Thatcher, Miles Mander, Joan Wyndham, Philip Strange

Synopsis: In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party and finds himself victimized by anti-Semitic guests. To add insult to injury, his wallet is then stolen. The fellow exposes the pilferer and threatens to take him to court until the other guests Read More

No Escape

Synopsis: In this thriller, the co-owner of a rubber plantation finds himself in trouble after he rejects the advances of his partner's wife and she tries to poison him. Unfortunately, she poisons her husband instead, leaving the partner to take the rap. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Borrowed Clothes

Synopsis: The popular British husband-and-wife screen team of Anne Grey and Lester Matthews star in Borrowed Clothes. Grey plays an impulsive aristocrat who purchases a failing dress shop. She knows very little about business, but her down-to-earth hubby (Mathews) proves a willing tutor. Slowly but surely, Grey Read More

Romance in Rhythm

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, a nightclub chorine jilts her old boyfriend, a musician, in favor of a new fiancé. Not long after, her new love is murdered. Although the prime suspect is the musician, he is not the guilty party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Actors: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, O.B. Clarence, Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis: This film from director Harold Young is the second big-screen adaptation of Baroness Emmuska Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel Read More

Mayfair Girl

Money for Nothing

Actors: Seymour Hicks, Betty Stockfeld, Henry Wenman, Edmund Gwenn, Donald Calthrop

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, an impoverished gambler falls in love with a coquette playing hard-to-get. The fellow's luck changes when he is mistaken for a prominent banker. Although, now enjoying the highlife-thanks to the error, he still cannot get the girl. Instead, he decides to run to the Riviera Read More

The Return of Raffles

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a suave, sophisticated jewel thief's attempts to steal valuable gems are thwarted when another thief beats him to the punch. Later he learns that his intended victim is an old lover of his and he vows to do all he can to bring the emeralds back to her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Bright Lights

Synopsis: In this light-hearted musical, an early color film, a successful actress tires of the bustle and hustle of her tawdry life and settles down to what she thinks is the blissful mundaneness of married life. Unfortunately, the actual drudgery of wifedom takes her by surprise and domestic turmoil Read More

Vengeance

Actors: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Philip Strange, Hayden Stevenson

Synopsis: Actor Ralph Graves was responsible for the original story upon which Vengeance was based -- although, perhaps wisely, he elected not to appear in the film. Dorothy Revier stars as Margaret, the sexy wife of Charles Summers (Philip Strange), the tyrannical owner of an African rubber plantation. Read More

A Notorious Affair

Actors: Billie Dove, Basil Rathbone, Kay Francis, Montagu Love, Ken Thomson

Synopsis: The sacrifice of a socialite is chronicled in this romantic drama. To be with her beloved musician, the wealthy woman gives up her wealth and social standing. Tragedy ensues when she discovers that he is having an affair with another noblewoman causing her to take up again with an old flame. When Read More

Wall Street

Actors: Ralph Ince, Sam de Grasse, Philip Strange, Ernest Hilliard, James Finlayson

Synopsis: A very topical early talkie from low-budget companyColumbia Pictures, Wall Street starred Ralph Ince, brother of producer Thomas H. Ince, as Roller McCray, a steelworker turned ruthless tycoon whose tough business methods leads a rival (Philip Strange) to commit suicide. The widow (Aileen Read More

The Unholy Night

Actors: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead, Sidney Jarvis

Synopsis: A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled the host announces that half of one of the deceased's fortune will go to the guests and if anyone should die, that person's share would go to the others. Before any money is Read More

The Rescue

Actors: Alfred Hickman, Theodore Von Eltz, John Davidson

Synopsis: This drama, based on a Joseph Conrad novel, follows the exploits of a British adventurer who helps hide an island prince and his sister after they are chased out of their village by rebellious natives. The adventurer then tries to help the prince reclaim his home, but he is waylaid by a wealthy Read More

Behind That Curtain

Actors: Warner Baxter, Lois Moran, Gilbert Emery, Claude King, Philip Strange

Synopsis: Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously made the first all-talking picture of any kind, In Old Arizona (also 1929). Chan fans may be disappointed in this globe-trotting mystery, however, as the detective (played by Read More

Sporting Goods

Actors: Richard Dix, Ford Sterling, Gertrude Olmstead, Philip Strange, Myrtle Stedman

Synopsis: Sports-loving inventor Richard Shelby (Richard Dix) develops an "Elasto-Tweed" golf suit then hits the road in hopes of making a few sales. Along the way, he meets Alice Elliott (Gertrude Olmstead), who mistakes Shelby for millionaire sportsman Timothy Stanfield (Claude King). Forced to go through Read More

Loves of an Actress

Actors: Pola Negri, Nils Asther, Mary McAlister, Richard Tucker, Philip Strange

Broadway Nights

Actors: Lois Wilson, Sam Hardy, Louis John Bartels, Philip Strange, Barbara Stanwyck

Synopsis: Amateur thespians Fannie (Lois Wilson) and Johnny (Sam Hardy) team up to form a vaudeville act. Along the way, they decide to get married, if only to save on expenses. Things don't go well on "the road" for Fannie and Johnny, and before long Johnny is spending more time shooting craps than Read More

Nevada

Actors: Gary Cooper, William Powell, Thelma Todd

Synopsis: Young Paramount stars Gary Cooper and Thelma Todd, the latter a recent graduate of the studio's acting school, starred in this otherwise average Zane Grey Western directed by studio hack John Waters. It was Waters who, having spotted young Cooper in a screen test, recommended the lanky newcomer Read More

Man Power

Actors: Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Philip Strange, Charles Hill Mailes, Oscar Smith

Synopsis: This two-fisted Richard Dix vehicle casts the muscular star as virile caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts. It is Roberts' mission to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood. The hero's odyssey is fraught with peril as he burrows Read More

The Ace of Cads

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Alice Joyce, Norman Trevor, Philip Strange

Synopsis: Who better to play Ace of Cads than that charming reprobate Adolphe Menjou? This time, however, Menjou is reasonably honorable. A high-ranking military officer, he is discredited in the eyes of his fiancee by his military enemies. Driven from town in disgrace, Menjou returns years later to do the Read More

Popular Sin

Actors: Florence Vidor, Clive Brook, Greta Nissen, Philip Strange, André Beranger

Synopsis: According to this frothy comedy, the "popular sin" is infidelity, especially in Paris. Philandering husband George Montfort (Philip Strange) purchases railroad tickets for a weekend tryst in the mountains with his latest paramour. When his wife Yvonne (Florence Vidor) finds the tickets, George Read More