Eliot Stannard

Películas

Above Rubies
Writer
In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
A Safe Affair
Writer
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
The Officers' Mess
Writer
A Lieutenant becomes mixed-up with some stolen jewels.
The Hate Ship
Writer
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 American Prisoner
Writer
An American sailor imprisoned on Dartmoor during the American War of Independence manages to escape and falls in love with a local Squire's daughter.
Tommy Atkins
Scenario Writer
A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.
El hombre de la isla de Man
Scenario Writer
Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson) es pescador, y su gran amigo desde la infancia, Philip Christian (Malcom Keen), quien ahora ejerce como abogado, viajan a la Isla de Man, donde Philip ha conseguido empleo a su amigo. La hija del empleador es una preciosa chica llamada Kate Cregeen (Anny Ondra) y, al conocerla, ambos amigos quedan prendados de ella, pero ante la efusividad y la atención que ella le presta a Pete, el abogado decide guardar prudente distancia dispuesto a ver qué ocurre entre ellos. Pero pronto el destino hará que Pete y Kate se separen durante un tiempo... y entonces, el joven pide a su amigo que cuide de su prometida hasta su regreso.
Widecombe Fair
Scenario Writer
'Devon. Rich widow helps poor squire by pretending his ancestor hid treasure.' (British Film Catalogue)
Sir or Madame
Adaptation
The Vortex
Writer
A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.
Easy Virtue
Writer
Una mujer, Larita Filton, es acusada por su marido, un hombre borracho y celoso, de haberse enamorado de un artista. El matrimonio se divorcia entre un gran escándalo y el artista se suicida. El mundo de Larita se viene abajo, ella ha adquirido mala reputación, por lo que decide cambiar de identidad y empezar una nueva vida. Se enamora de un joven rico y se casa con él hasta que la madre averigua su turbio pasado...
La mujer del granjero
Adaptation
El granjero Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) acaba de perder a su esposa, y tras haber casado a su única hija, ha quedado solo con su leal ama de llaves, Araminta (Lilian Hall-Davis) y con su ayudante Churdles Ash (Gordon Harker). Pensando entonces en volver a casarse, Sweetland hará una lista de los mejores prospectos que podría encontrar entre sus conocidas y su propósito, desde entonces, será conquistar a alguna de ellas.
Declive
Scenario Writer
Roddy (Ivor Novello), primogénito de la rica familia Berwick, es expulsado del instituto acusado de haber ultrajado a una mujer y su padre le repudia. Entonces decide ir a París donde se gasta el último dinero que le queda y comienza a trabajar como bailarín.
Blighty
Writer
A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
El enemigo de las rubias
Screenplay
Londres. Un misterioso asesino en serie mata brutalmente a jóvenes mujeres rubias amparado por la niebla nocturna. Una neblinosa y siniestra noche, un joven que dice llamarse Jonathan Drew llega a la casa de huéspedes de los Bunting y alquila un cuarto.
El jardín de la alegría
Writer
Patsy Brand es una corista en el salón de música Pleasure Garden. Conoce a Jill Cheyne, que está de capa caída, y le consigue un trabajo como bailarina. Jill conoce al aventurero Hugh Fielding y se comprometen, pero cuando Hugh viaja fuera del país, ella comienza a jugar.
The Curse of Ravenscroft
Writer
Victor Drew is a British private investigator who must solve the mystery of who is killing off members of the Ravenscroft clan.
The Mountain Eagle
Writer
In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs away and seeks refuge with a hermit.
Settled Out of Court
Writer
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
Nets of Destiny
Writer
A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
The Diamond Man
Writer
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
The Gay Corinthian
Writer
A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.
Love and Hate
Writer
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
Becket
Writer
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
Heartstrings
Writer
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Paddy The Next Best Thing
Writer
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
The Romany
Writer
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
The Last King of Wales
Story
The romantic 13th-century history of Prince Llywelyn of Wales, and his conflict with King Edward I of England.
A Sailor Tramp
Writer
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
Writer
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
The Bachelor's Club
Writer
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
Build Thy House
Screenplay
A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
Lady Audley's Secret
Scenario Writer
'Old knight's new wife throws first husband down well and tries to burn blackmailing gardener.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Twelve Pound Look
Writer
A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
Wuthering Heights
Writer
The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star cross'd lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
General Post
Writer
An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
Writer
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
Patricia Brent, Spinster
Scenario Writer
'A comedy in which a secretary persuades a man to pose as her fiancée.' (BFI)
The Toilers
Writer
Red Pottage
Writer
A lady's lover draws spills with her husband to decide who shall commit suicide.
Nelson
Writer
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
Tom Jones
Screenplay
Adventures of a squire's disowned son who proves to be his bastard heir.
Florence Nightingale
Writer
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
The Idol of Paris
Scenario Writer
A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.
Beautiful Jim
Script
A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.
Her Luck in London
Screenplay
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.