Movies: Cecil Humphreys

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes comp...

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married....

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death....

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected....

Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes...

Following a promise she made to her father on his deathbed, Laura Fairlie go to Scotland with Sir Percival Glyde to his mysterious mansion to be married. Once there, many strange and disturbing things happen. She meets a girl who has been a victim of...

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring ...

An aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death....

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Agu...

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Mino...

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York....

A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated....

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime....

'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)...

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures....

A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son....

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence....

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper....

“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI....

'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)...