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The Flirting Widow
EnglandShe's everybody's sweetheart but nobody's gal! — An older daughter invents a fiancé so that her father will allow her younger sister to marry. However, the lie comes back to haunt her.
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Scotland Yard
EnglandA soldier is wounded in action. His face is restored by a plastic surgeon to resemble someone else.
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs
England The 18th CenturyKitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.
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The Great Game
EnglandSet in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
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Temple Tower
EnglandThe film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile.
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Latin Love
EnglandA Soho restaurateur's protégé becomes a star.
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So This Is London
Englandriding to hounds with an English lord — Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man who profoundly distastes everything British. Yet he must travel to London with his family. When Junior falls in love with an aristocratic girl, whose father despises Americans with equal intensity, fireworks are just about to start.
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The Man from Blankley's
EnglandAMERICA'S FOREMOST ACTOR in His First Modern Comedy — When a nobleman loses his way in the fog and enters a house where there's a party going on, he's mistaken for a hired butler.
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Children of Chance
EnglandA casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
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The Night Porter
EnglandA hotel porter mistakes honeymooners for jewel thieves.
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No Exit
EnglandA romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders.
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An Obvious Situation
EnglandA film directed by Giuseppe Guarino.
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The Squeaker
EnglandA detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.
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Tons of Money
EnglandA debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.
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The Yellow Mask
EnglandA musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.
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You'd Be Surprised!
EnglandA musical comedy directed by Walter Forde.
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Blackmail
England The 1920sHold everything till you've heard this one! — London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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Pandora's Box
England The 1880sLulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast and Lulu's seedy old friend, Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
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Piccadilly
EnglandA young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
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Bulldog Drummond
EnglandHugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.
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Disraeli
England The 1870sDisraeli – Lover and Leader! — Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
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The Divine Lady
England The 1800s The 1810s The 18th CenturyLady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.
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The Four Feathers
England The 19th CenturyParamount's new sensation! — An Englishman (Richard Arlen) fights in the Sudan after receiving white feathers of cowardice from his fiancee (Fay Wray) and friends.
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High Treason
England The 1940s The 1990s1930s Vision of 1940 — 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 alert.
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The Unholy Night
EnglandOne dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the other nine surviving officers at his home, one of them is murdered, and no one else has entered the house. Now, they must determine who the murderer is.
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Woman to Woman
EnglandA DARING LOVE ROMANCE IN THRILLING DIALOGUE! — While on leave in WW I France an English officer and French cabaret star fall in love with one another and plan to marry. However, he is recalled to the front, wounded and has memory loss.
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Charming Sinners
EnglandIt takes a smart woman to outwit a clever man — especially when that man is her husband! — Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he falls in love with Anne-Marie Whitley (Mary Nolan), the best friend of his own wife Kathryn (Ruth Chatterton). In retaliation, Kathryn begins a flirtation with her former boyfriend Karl Kraley (William Powell). After reels and reels of verbal fencing, the status quo is re-established, and Robert and Kathryn are reunited.
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The Wrecker
EnglandThe Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
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Three Live Ghosts
England The 1910sAn investigator is asking Mrs. Gubbins about a William Foster, who was a friend of her stepson Jimmy. Both are listed as killed in action during the Great War. It is Armistice Day, 1918, and the war is over. Who should be strolling down the street but Jimmy Gubbins, Bill 'Jones' and another man who has lost his memory. They are ghosts as the official records list them as dead and not as escaped P.O.W's. Jimmy's mother is not happy to see that Jimmy is still living as she has been spending the death benefits, but she is happy to see Bill as there is a large reward for him. No one knows much about the third one, called 'Spoofy', except that he can steal anything at anytime and that gets everyone is trouble.
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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
EnglandMen adored her-women envied her. through London's gilded society she swept, leaving a trail of broken hearts- and stolen jewels. — There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
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Under the Greenwood Tree
EnglandEarly sound film based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.
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The Ace of Scotland Yard
EnglandFrom the Universal synopsis: Retired Inspector Blake of Scotland Yard learns that Lord Blanton has acquired the sacred "Love Ring"---a cursed jewel that has brought grief to its previous owners. Prince Darius seeks to obtain the ring, and the mummy of a princess of an ancient country to return them to his homeland.
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Splinters
EnglandSplinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
EnglandThe Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.
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The Alley Cat
England"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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The Sky Hawk
England The 1910sJack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
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After the Verdict
EnglandA British-German silent drama film directed by Henrik Galeen
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Chamber of Horrors
EnglandA man spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds.
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Die Königsloge
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Her Private Life
EnglandBillie Dove more radiantly beautiful than ever before — A English aristocrat causes a scandal when she divorces her husband and runs off with a young American.
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The Careless Age
EnglandA wandering boy and a love squandering woman. — Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.
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The Sacred Flame
EnglandColonel Maurice Taylor of the Royal Flying Corps is hopelessly injured in an airplane crash immediately following his marriage to Stella. Maurice is non-functional in most of the physical areas of marriage that count, but Stella attends to his other needs faithfully for three years. Then his brother, Colin, shows up from South America, and he and Stella fall passionately in love and are making plans to run away together. Mother Taylor is aware of the romance, as is Nurse Weyland, who is secretly in love with Maurice, and now hates Stella for her careless attitude toward Maurice's patiently-borne sufferings. Maurice is also aware of the affair. He has a talk with his wife and brother. Complications arise.
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Kitty
England The 1910sA shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
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Underground
England The 1920sThe Thrilling Romance of London's Underground Railways. — 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...
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The Man Who Laughs
England The 18th Century The 17th CenturyGwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
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