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Dark Possession (1954)
Character: Governor Bell
A woman is accused by a poison-pen letter of murdering her husband.
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To What Red Hell (1929)
Character: Jim Nolan
'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Monkey's Paw (1933)
Character: Herbert
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, a wish that is granted by the severed paw of a dead monkey.
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King Lear (1953)
Character: Earl of Kent
In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
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The Right To Romance (1933)
Character: Man with the Maceys
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds herself falling in love with a playboy (Robert Young). Drama.
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So This Is London (1930)
Character: Alfred Honeycutt
Hiram Draper is an all-American self-made man with a profound distaste for 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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Immortal Sergeant (1943)
Character: Symes
During WWII, a corporal in the desert reminisces about the love he left behind and faces uncertainty about his strength as a leader.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Character: The Priest
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
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Once a Lady (1931)
Character: Allen Corinth
A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, her daughter approaches her, needing her help.
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The Mummy (1932)
Character: Ralph Norton
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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The Silent Witness (1932)
Character: Anthony Howard
A London nobleman (Lionel Atwill) takes the blame and stands trial after his son strangles a lover (Greta Nissen).
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Raffles (1930)
Character: Bunny
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes to him with a predicament that entails him committing one last job.
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Only Yesterday (1933)
Character: Scott Hughes
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
Character: Gareth
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
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The Undying Monster (1942)
Character: Dr. Jeff Colbert
A werewolf prowls around at night but only kills certain members of one family. It seems like just a coincidence, but the investigating Inspector soon finds out that this tradition has gone on for generations and tries to find a link between the werewolf and the family, leading to a frightening conclusion.
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Random Harvest (1942)
Character: Harrison
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
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White Cargo (1942)
Character: Wilbur Ashley
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
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Men of the Sky (1931)
Character: Eric
In the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
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Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Character: Ronald Petrie
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
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The Millionaire (1931)
Character: Carter Andrews
A millionaire automaker retires upon the advice of his doctor, but becomes so bored he buys half interest in a gas station and works it on the sly.
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Svengali (1931)
Character: Billee
A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.
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The Face on the Barroom Floor (1932)
Character: Bill Bronson
Bill Bronson is a likable young bank clerk, whose congenital thirst for liquor is kept under control until he joins his wife Mary at getting blotto at a company party. From there it is a downward spiral.
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