Movies: Sydney Fairbrother

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa....

Musical retelling of the "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves" Arabian Nights tale....

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets,...

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham...

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants......

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry....

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion....

Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off. In an attempt to avoid doing so, he accidentally buys a failing all-in wrestling stadium as well. Now Archie...

British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley......

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child....

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home....

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop....

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence....

Some sisters inherit a large sum of money....

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol....

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)...

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays Gabrielle, the glamorous, spoiled wife of world-famous orchestra leader Peter (Romney Brent). Left alo...

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family....