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The Monkey’s Paw | Mr. Robert Trelawne | 1948-06-01 | A curio dealer sells a monkey’s paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow…. |
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Lady Windermere’s Fan | Lord Windermere | 1916-07-01 | Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play…. |
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The Man Without a Soul | Stephen Ferrier | 1916-07-01 | A scientist brings a divinity student back to life, but revived lacks his soul…. |
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The Passionate Friends | | 1923-01-15 | An armament king’s wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal…. |
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Wuthering Heights | Heathcliff | 1920-07-01 | The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte’s book about star cross’d lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destruct… |
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The Amazing Partnership | Pryde | 1921-06-01 | A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol…. |
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The Twelve Pound Look | Harry Sims | 1920-09-10 | A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too…. |
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A Woman of No Importance | Lord Illingworth | 1921-07-01 | A widow’s son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father…. |
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Shadow of Egypt | Harold Westcott | 1924-11-01 | A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse…… |
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Dangerous Comment | Major Brett | 1940-05-18 | A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a c… |
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The Phantom Light | Dr. Carey | 1935-08-05 | Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the r… |
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Gas Light | Inspector Rough | 1939-03-19 | Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do … |
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Return to Yesterday | Sambourne | 1940-03-09 | Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England…. |
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Little Women | Theodore Lawrence | 1917-07-02 | The first silent adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. It is considered a lost film…. |
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South Riding | Alderman Snaith | 1938-08-01 | Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but ‘the front-line defence thrown up by humanity again… |
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Let’s Be Famous | Albert Pinbright | 1939-03-22 | An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show…. |
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The Small Back Room | Prof. Mair | 1949-02-21 | At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-d… |
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Atlantic Ferry | George Burns | 1941-09-09 | The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone…. |
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Chatteris | 1939-07-28 | A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life…. |
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Frieda | Merrick | 1947-06-19 | A young German girl marries an Englishman and moves into his family’s household during the last days of World War II. The family and community have co… |
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Daybreak | Governor | 1948-05-18 | A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy…. |
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The Stars Look Down | Harry Nugent, MP | 1940-01-22 | The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin’s 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the n… |
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The W Plan | President of Court Martial | 1930-02-25 | A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intel… |
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The Lion Has Wings | Head of Observer Corps | 1939-11-03 | This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British… |
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High Treason | Ernest Stratton | 1929-03-25 | The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high… |
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Fame Is the Spur | Magistrate | 1947-09-23 | A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to … |
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