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The Call of the Road (1920)
Character: Lord Delavel
In 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
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The White Sheik (1928)
Character: Martengo
In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.
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Jugendrausch (1927)
Character: Jacques Vaillant
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
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Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen (1933)
Character: N/A
Portrait photographer Lu Tiemann owns a white wire-haired terrier named "Stork." For Lu, the charming dog has a very specific purpose: to either jump into parked cars with men at the wheel, thereby attracting their attention, or to hide inside the car and emerge while it's moving – with the same result. When the driver then wants to get a closer look at the "crazy" dog, the following inscription can be read on his collar: "My name is Stork, owned by Lu Tiemann, Regentenstrasse 17." Many well-to-do gentlemen fall for this approach, such as a portly consul or a factory owner and privy councillor, next to whom "Stork" brazenly positions himself on the passenger seat.
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Wuthering Heights (1920)
Character: Hindley Earnshaw
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
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La Venenosa (1928)
Character: N/A
A trapeze artist suffers the curse that causes her kisses to be deadly.
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The Three Kings (1928)
Character: Frank King
Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer.
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Build Thy House (1920)
Character: Burnaby
A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921)
Character: Newson
A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.
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Tell Your Children (1922)
Character: Lord Belhurst
A Lady stops her daughter from eloping with a farmer, takes away her baby, and makes her marry a Lord.
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Southern Love (1924)
Character: Dick Tennant
Gypsy dancer Dolores flees an arranged marriage and faces ruin by a count. After her admirer kills the count the other gypsies swoop in to save her from destruction.
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Maria Marten (1928)
Character: William Corder
1820. A squire kills his pregnant mistress to marry a heiress but is exposed by his mother's dream.
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Belphegor the Mountebank (1921)
Character: Laverennes
A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
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The Woman Tempted (1927)
Character: Jimmy Davies
A young woman murders another woman whose behaviour drove her fiancé to suicide.
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Mein Leben für das Deine (1928)
Character: Graf Georg de Clermont-Latour, ihr Mann
One evening at a ball, Count Georg de Clermont-Latour—a man who places great importance on convention and traditional notions of honor—surprises a young man in his wife Odette’s bedchamber. Despite her protestations that she had rebuffed the presumptuous youth and behaved with neither impropriety nor infidelity, her husband refuses to believe a word she says and casts her out of his home.
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To Oblige a Lady (1931)
Character: George Pinder
A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
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Life Goes On (1932)
Character: Ronald St. John
A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
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Human Desires (1924)
Character: Pierre Brandon
In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.
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Die Todesschleife (1928)
Character: Andre Melton
Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
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The Prude's Fall (1925)
Character: Andre le Briquet
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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Man of Mayfair (1931)
Character: Ferdinand Barclay
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Deadlock (1931)
Character: Markham Savage
A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film.
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The Callbox Mystery (1932)
Character: Leo Mount
The Callbox Mystery (1932) is a British quota quickie crime film about a detective investigating murders linked to a mysterious callbox, likely involving suspects from a will, with a newspaper woman assisting and uncovering deeper secrets behind the apparent financial motives.
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Bulldog Drummond (1922)
Character: Dr. Lakington
A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.
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Ihr dunkler Punkt (1929)
Character: Roger
When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice.
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Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929)
Character: Col. Beranoff
This silent-screen classic, like many others produced near the end of the silent era, was both a theatrical extravaganza boasting an original orchestral score and an item which languished in obscurity for many years. When Carlo Piccardi took what was left of the score by Maurice Jaubert and re-created it, the existing footage was restored and paired with a new orchestral performance which was shown in Paris in 1988. The film's story concerns the travails of a woman who has been living quite comfortably as the mistress of a colonel in the Tsar's army in Russia. However, she eventually encounters a penniless young lieutenant and falls madly in love with him, as he does with her. Despite her best intentions of remaining with the colonel, and his intention to avoid trouble with his fellow soldiers, they cannot forswear this relationship, and tragedy is the inevitable result. The title refers to a moving incident in the story, and translates as "the wonderful lie of Nina Petrovna."
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Stamboul (1931)
Character: Col André de Sevigne
In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
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Varieté (1925)
Character: Artinelli
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
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Birds of Prey (1930)
Character: Edward Laverick
At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of them was hanged; the other two were sentenced to long terms, vowing vengeance on Hilton. Unknown to him, the same two men are now among his guests, and are determined to have their revenge.
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F.P.1 (1933)
Character: First Officer
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire, but when he returns from his adventures to save the endangered F.P.1 he finds out that he has lost her to Droste. English version of F.P.1 antwortet nicht with Conrad Veidt replacing Hans Albers as the jaded pilot Ellissen.
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The Informer (1929)
Character: Dan Gallagher
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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