Sybil Thorndike

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Vic Brennan convence a su familia en Dublin para reunir dinero y financiarle su viaje al remoto pueblo africano de Jebanda, donde pretende abrir un negocio de camiones de transporte. La familia accede con la condición de que su primo Samuel, empleado de banco, vaya con él para proteger sus intereses.

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.

Dublín, 1921. Un grupo de fuerzas especiales del Ejército Británico es enviado para combatir al IRA. Un estudiante de medicina americano, de origen irlandés, espera mantenerse al margen del conflicto; pero, a partir del momento en que ayuda a un amigo herido, no sólo se coloca al margen de la ley, sino que entra en la organización, cuyo líder es su antiguo profesor Sean Lenihan. (FILMAFFINITY)

The happy-go-lucky young Smiley gets into more strife as he attempts to prove himself a responsible citizen by helping others - all so he can earn a new gun from Sergeant Flaxman.

Durante una visita a Londres para la coronación del rey Jorge V, el gran duque de Carpathia conoce a Elsie, una bella corista a la que invita a cenar a su embajada. La velada no sale tal y como estaba prevista, debido a varias interrupciones inesperadas. Sin embargo, al día siguiente, ambos se darán cuenta de que ha surgido entre ellos un sentimiento muy especial. Basándose en una obra de teatro del dramaturgo inglés Terence Rattigan, Laurence Olivier dirigió esta película que podría entenderse como una variación de "La Cenicienta".

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

La vida de la cantante de ópera Nellie Melba, una soprano nacida en Australia.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.

Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) es una muchacha crecida entre la naturaleza, que vive en los confines de Shropshire a finales del siglo XIX. Es hija de un arpista ciego, y vive obsesionada por las supersticiones de su difunta madre. A pesar de la atracción que siente por el sádico señor del lugar, Jack Reddin (David Farrar), Hazel accede a contraer matrimonio con el sumiso reverendo Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack).

Un hombre que es buscado por la policía, acusado de haber matado al marido de su amante, se refugia en casa de su amiga Eve, a la que confiesa que la verdadera asesina es su amante, la actriz Charlotte Inwood. Eve decide investigar por su cuenta, pero cuando conoce al detective encargado del caso comienza a enamorarse...

Ambientada en la época victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Adelaide, una joven de buena familia que renuncia a todo para casarse con un artista venido a menos. Cuando su marido muere en un accidente, Adelaide es chantajeada por una despreciable arpía que la acusa de haber matado a su marido.

Nicholas Nickleby es un joven inteligente que se ve obligado a proteger a su madre y a su hermana de las malvadas maquinaciones de su tío Ralph. Nicholas sabe tratar hábilmente con amigos y enemigos, pero abandona su círculo de amistades para vengarse de su tío.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

Resumen: Edith Cavell fue una enfermera establecida en Bruselas que, durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, refugió y ayudó a escapar a decenas de soldados del bando de los aliados. Éste es el relato de sus acciones, del posterior juicio y de su fusilamiento. (Eddie Constanti) Comentario Esto es historia. Un día, en plena Gran Guerra, a una eficaz enfermera inglesa asentada en la capital belga se le ocurrió hacer "su" guerra contra la guerra, escondiendo y repatriando a soldados aliados por distintos medios. Era su respuesta a la sinrazón de una contienda bélica mundial. Cuando la descubrieron ya había salvado a un buen puñado de hombres (doscientos diez) que, por lógica, al llegar a la neutral Holanda volvían a convertirse en soldados contra Alemania.

Part of serial Tense Moments from Great Plays.

Macbeth is a black and white 1922 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was the last silent film version of that play produced, and the eighth film adaptation of the play. It was directed by H. B. Parkinson and produced by Frank Miller.