C. V. France
Nacimiento : 1868-06-29, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Muerte : 1949-04-13
Magistrate
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
The Vicar Ashton
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de soldados británicos llega a la aldea inglesa de Bramley End. Al principio son bien recibidos por los lugareños, pero muy pronto éstos empiezan a dudar de su identidad y de sus verdaderos propósitos. Cuando descubren que, en realidad, son soldados alemanes cuyo objetivo es ser la avanzadilla de la invasión de Inglaterra, los encierran en la iglesia parroquial. (FILMAFFINITY)
Admiral Hassinger
Checoslovaquia, marzo de 1939, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mientras los invasores alemanes ocupan Praga, el inventor Axel Bomasch logra huir y llegar a Inglaterra; pero aquellos que necesitan poner sus conocimientos al servicio de la maquinaria de guerra nazi, con el propósito de llevar a cabo sus malvados planes de destrucción, no se detendrán ante nada para capturarlo.
General de Guermantes
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Tom Greenleaf
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Judge
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Father Villon
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Col. Lionel Anstruther
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Dean Snodgrass
Lee Sheridan, un joven americano viene a estudiar a la Universidad de Oxford, pero desde el primer momento cae mal al resto de estudiantes, por su actitud descarada. Tras varios encontronazos con los profesores y la mujer del librero local, se convertirá en un héroe cuando se una al equipo de remo, para batir al eterno enemigo: la Universidad de Cambridge.
Archbishop of Canterburry
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Clergy at Execution
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
High Priest
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Spirit of Christmas Future
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Lord Edgware
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Micky the Mailer
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Sir Claude Amory
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Minx
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Mr. Hillcrist
Basada en una obra de teatro, es la historia de una furiosa rivalidad entre un propietario rural y su vecino, un industrial advenedizo.
Lord Farquhar
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
Squire Lester
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.