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Guilty Melody (1936)
Character: Richard Carter
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy.
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My Song Goes Round the World (1934)
Character: Rico
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
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18 Minutes (1935)
Character: Trelawney
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Allá donde el viento brama (1963)
Character: N/A
The action takes place in Comodo Rivadavia, and reenacts a 1907 mission lead by José Fuchs, who was supposed to find water but found oil instead.
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Rolling in Money (1934)
Character: Lord Gawthorpe
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
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Small Hotel (1957)
Character: Mr. Finch
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
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The Gorilla Man (1943)
Character: Captain Craig Killian
A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.
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Scotland Yard (1941)
Character: Sir John Lasher
Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.
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Anything to Declare? (1938)
Character: Capt. Rufus Grant
John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
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Meet Maxwell Archer (1940)
Character: Maxwell Archer
Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
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Doctor Syn (1937)
Character: Denis Cobtree
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Money for Speed (1933)
Character: Mitch
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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Paix sur le Rhin (1938)
Character: Émile Scheffer
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
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Katia (1938)
Character: Tsar Alexandre II of Russia
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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The Firechasers (1971)
Character: Routledge
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
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Rich People (1929)
Character: Captain Danforth
Connie Hayden (Constance Bennett) faces a dilemma; will she choose the rich guy or the ordinary Joe? Naturally, Connie has the answer in time for the final credits.
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Menaces... (1940)
Character: Dick Stone
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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The Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: John Ryder
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Love, Life and Laughter (1934)
Character: Prince Charles
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
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Adventure in Iraq (1943)
Character: George Torrence
Three Allied soldiers in an airplane flying to Egypt crash-land in Iraq. They are taken in by a local sheik, but soon begin to suspect that he may not be quite as friendly as he appears to be.
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Murder Will Out (1939)
Character: Dr. Paul Raymond
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
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Sweethearts and Wives (1930)
Character: Sam Worthington
An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.
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The Unholy Night (1929)
Character: Captain Dorchester
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
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Lilies of the Field (1930)
Character: Walter Harker
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
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Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Character: Dr. Matt Adams
A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.
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Gentleman Jim (1942)
Character: Carlton De Witt
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
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On the Loose (1931)
Character: Mr. Loder
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
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Under Secret Orders (1937)
Character: Lt. Peter Carr
During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
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Black Waters (1929)
Character: Charles
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Character: Dick Haslewood
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming... a Mad Scientist, almost unstoppable...
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Ourselves Alone (1936)
Character: Captain Wiltshire
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
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The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
Character: Fraser-Freer's Younger Brother
In this mystery, a man and woman have been corresponding through a "personal" column under the names Lord Strawberries and Lady Grapefruit. When the man's neighbor is found dead upstairs, he and the lady are the prime suspects of a police inspector, who has his own very good reason for blaming them.
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The First Born (1928)
Character: Lord David Harborough
Would-be politician Sir Hugo Boycott and his wife Madeleine have an unhappy marriage. Madeleine is aware that Hugo is a serial philanderer, and their problems are exacerbated when she fails to produce the heir he wants.
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Sing As We Go (1934)
Character: Hugh Phillips
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Wedding Rehearsal (1932)
Character: John Hopkins aka Bimbo
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off .
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Love, Live & Laugh (1929)
Character: Dr. Price
Any movie that starts Jewish entertainer George Jessel as an Italian accordionist named Luigi can't be all bad. In love with the beautiful Margharita (Lila Lee), Luigi lands a job in the music store owned by the girl's uncle. Ultimately, however, our hero does the Pagliacci act when Margharita evinces a preference for handsome Pasquale (David Rollins). The film's best scene takes place in a nursery full of talented tots, a sequence that undoubtedly reminded Jessel of his days with Gus Edwards' "Schoolroom" act. Exercising his droit du seigneur, Georgie Jessel sings the title tune.
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Dishonored Lady (1947)
Character: Felix Courtland
Art editor Madeleine Damian carries on numerous loveless affairs. After a failed relationship with advertiser Felix Courtland, the increasingly depressed Madeleine attempts suicide. When Jack Garet, her secretary and former lover, tries to blackmail her, Madeleine resigns and seeks a reclusive life. Neighbor David Cousins befriends Madeleine, but soon Courtland and Garet discover her whereabouts and disrupt her new life.
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One Night In Lisbon (1941)
Character: Cmdr. Peter Walmsley
Saucy screwball comedy wherein lovely Madeleine falls in love with flier Fred despite interference from her fiancee and his ex.
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Eagle Squadron (1942)
Character: Paddy Carson
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Old Acquaintance (1943)
Character: Preston Drake
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
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The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946)
Character: De Villefort, Prefect of Police
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to Paris to get revenge but soon finds himself pursued by a cruel policeman (John Loder). The count's brave wife Haydée (Lenore Aubert) throws the cop off her husband's scent by dressing up as the masked avenger herself and proving that she too is most competent with a sword.
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Owd Bob (1938)
Character: David Moore
Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
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You Made Me Love You (1933)
Character: Harry Berne
A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer.
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The Brighton Strangler (1945)
Character: Reginald Parker / Edward Grey
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
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Queen of Hearts (1936)
Character: Derek Cooper
A woman prevents a popular stage performer getting arrested for drunk driving, though has to pretend to be a rich benefactor when she next meets him.
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Non-Stop New York (1937)
Character: Inspector Jim Grant
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
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A Game of Death (1945)
Character: Don Rainsford
A shipwrecked Don Rainsford washes up on a homicidal big-game hunter's Caribbean island where the madman hunts human prey for his personal island habitat.
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Jealousy (1945)
Character: Dr. David Brent
A female cabbie is suspected of killing her drunken husband.
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Woman and the Hunter (1957)
Character: Mitchell Gifford
When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a man hunt.
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One Night at Susie's (1930)
Character: Hayes
A woman gets help from her gangster friends after her foster son takes the blame for a murder he did not commit.
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The Hairy Ape (1944)
Character: Tony Lazar
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
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Seas Beneath (1931)
Character: Franz Shiller
In the waning days of WWI, a U.S. "Mystery Ship," sets sail for the coast of Spain towing a submarine. Their mission is to find and sink a U-boat that has been especially effective in attacking Allied shipping. Posing as a harmless schooner, the mystery ship is in fact fitted with a formidable gun capable of sinking a U-boat. Stopping in the Canary Islands to refuel, the crew interacts with locals involved with Germans, and with Germans themselves, including the sister of the U-Boat commander, who is lurking offshore waiting for the coming battle.
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Now, Voyager (1942)
Character: Elliot Livingston
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
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Abroad with Two Yanks (1944)
Character: Aussie Sgt. Cyril North
Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.
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Sabotage (1937)
Character: Ted
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Peynell
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Java Head (1934)
Character: Gerrit Ammidon
The port city of Bristol, England, in the 1800s is home to Java Head, a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One, a handsome seafarer, is in love with a local girl, but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage, he returns with a very exotic, noble Chinese wife, which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son, a "landlubber", seeks to convert to steamships, to the disgust of his father. Even worse, he is secretly dealing in contraband.
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Her Private Affair (1929)
Character: Carl Weild
A married society woman accidentally kills her would-be lover and blackmailer and then suffers a crisis of conscience when his disgruntled butler is charged with the crime.
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Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Character: Reggie Carstairs
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
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The Secret Man (1958)
Character: Major Anderson
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
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Alraune (1928)
Character: Viscount
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
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The Doctor's Secret (1929)
Character: Hugh Paton
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she returns home to her husband and tries to carry on as if nothing had happened. Only the doctor who shows up at their house for dinner that night, and who dealt with the crash, knows the truth. A lost film.
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Sunset Pass (1929)
Character: Ashleigh Preston
This Zane Grey adaptation stars square-jawed Jack Holt as a lawman going undercover to ferret out a notorious cattle rustler.
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Passage to Marseille (1944)
Character: Manning
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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The Man Hunter (1930)
Character: George Castle
Rin-Tin-Tin leaves his usual far north and ranch settings for Africa.
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The Battle (1934)
Character: Fergan
The Battle is a 1934 Franco-British co-production English language drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and Viktor Tourjansky, and starring Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon and John Loder. It was adapted from a novel by Claude Farrère. In 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War, a Japanese naval officer gets his wife to seduce a British atachee in order to gain secrets from him. Things begin to go wrong when she instead falls in love with him.
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Gideon's Day (1958)
Character: Ponsford 'The Duke'
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
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Lorna Doone (1934)
Character: John Ridd
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
Character: Paul Marchant
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Character: Ianto Morgan
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
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King Solomon's Mines (1937)
Character: Sir Henry Curtis
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
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Adventure in Diamonds (1940)
Character: Michael Barclay
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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One More Tomorrow (1946)
Character: Owen Arthur
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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The Racketeer (1929)
Character: Jack Oakhurst
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
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The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Character: Sir Henry Leland
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
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Confirm or Deny (1941)
Character: Captain Lionel Channing
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
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Diamond Frontier (1940)
Character: Dr. Charles Clayton
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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