Movies: Sydney Fairbrother

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa....

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets,...

Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Direc...

Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight....

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon learns that he must spend 500,000 pounds in 60 days to inherit the rest of the money, or forfeit the entir...

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale....

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home....

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alo...

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop....

'Broke lord poses as widow's lady companion and saves girl from kidnap.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry....

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl....

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child....

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)...

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family....

A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters....

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mot...

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion....

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie...

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......