Randle Ayrton

Randle Ayrton

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Randle Ayrton

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Talk of the Devil
A ruthless businessman tries to steal his brother's successful shipping company. He hires a gifted mimic to date one of his brother's daughters to get some inside information about the business. The mimic succeeds only too well, with tragic results.
Debt of Honour
Captain Turner
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
Me and Marlborough
King Louis XIV
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Dreyfus
President, Dreyfus Court Martial
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
Comets
Himself
A Musical Revue featuring a number of prominent vaudeville and theatrical British artists of the day in songs, dances, dramatic and musical sketches.
The Great Game
Henderson
Set 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.
Two Worlds
Simon Goldscheider
An old Jew is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
High Seas
Captain Jeffrey
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Hate Ship
Captain MacDonnell
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
The Feather
Rizzio
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
A Romance of Seville
Estavian
Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon's betrothal, Pepita gives her heart to another but when bandits accost her and try to rob her father, they give the dashing Ramon just the chance he needs to prove the gallant lover!
The Manxman
Caesar Cregeen
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
His House in Order
Director
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
The Little People
Lyn
Nell Gwyn
Charles II
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
Chu-Chin-Chow
Kasim Baba
In Baghdad a girl escapes from a robber sheikh and thwarts a plot to rob a merchant.
Decameron Nights
Ricciardo
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.