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Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
Nov 1934
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
Jul 1928
The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful series of documentary reconstructions of First World War battles by British Instructional Films made between 1921 and 1927.
Oct 1927
Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.
Aug 1929
A British crime film directed by Norman Lee
Jul 1932
A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan, who falls for her, to the chagrin of the wily Dalia. When Selima is caught is Shiraz, the young man is condemned to be trampled to death by an elephant. A pendant reveals Selima's royal status and she saves her brother, marries the prince and becomes Empress Mumtaz Mahal while Dalia is banned for her machinations against Selima. When Selima dies (1629), the emperor builds her a monument to the design of the now old and blind Shiraz, the Taj Mahal.
Sep 1928
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
A British silent crime film directed by J. O. C. Orton
Mar 1929
A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.
Oct 1929
The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Feb 1928
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Sep 1932
Documentary detailing a farmer’s visit to the market in Rawalpindi.
A man spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds.
The film shows the birth, life and reproduction of sweet peas, a familiar and well loved plant of British gardeners.
Jul 1930
The courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.
Sep 1931
A comedy film directed by J. O. C. Orton.
Apr 1932
Short film showing (with limited accuracy) the life-cycle of myxomycetes.
Feb 1931
Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.
Jan 1925
The nightingale and its song, its habitat, nest eggs and young.
Mar 1932
The Strangler shows the life history of dodder, from its earliest stage as a seedling, to its parasitic stage feeding off its host.
Dec 1930