Edna Best

Un espía ruso es destinado a la embajada soviética de Ottawa (Canadá) con la misión de obtener información sobre armas nucleares, pero, tras un breve periodo de estancia en el país, decide desertar.

Lucy Muir es una joven viuda que decide irse a vivir a orillas del mar, a una casa encantada que perteneció al capitán Gegg, un marinero cuyo fantasma se le aparece. Al principio, el capitán utiliza los mismos trucos que le sirvieron para librarse de otros inquilinos, pero con Lucy no funcionan.

Basada en una obra -de mismo título- ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, narra la historia de un aristócrata de Boston enamorado de su ciudad hasta extremos insospechados. Él tiene perfectamente claro que sus hijos deben permanecer en Boston y relacionarse sólo con bostonianos, pero para su desgracia su hijo -estudiante en Harvard- se enamora de una chica de Worcester, mientras su hija se queda prendada de un estudiante de Yale...

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

Cuando una tormenta los hace naufragar, la familia Robinson debe unirse para crear un hogar en una isla desierta. Pero el reto definitivo se presenta cuando un grupo de piratas despiadados amenaza con destruir su paraíso improvisado.

Un famoso violinista, tras volver a casa después de un gira triunfal, conoce a la profesora de piano de su hija. Sus encuentros al principio instrascendentes se harán cada vez más intensos hasta que descubren que están enamorados.

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Bob y Jill Lawrence son un matrimonio que está de vacaciones en Suiza con su hija Betty. Allí entablan amistad con Louis Bernard, un francés que recibe un disparo en el corazón mientras baila con Jill. Justo antes de morir, Louis le pide a Bob que entregue a las autoridades unos documentos que tiene escondidos en su habitación. Bob descubre que Bernard era, en realidad, un espía británico que seguía los pasos de una misteriosa organización que planeaba asesinar a un político extranjero en Londres. A continuación Bob recibe la llamada de un desconocido que le exige que abandone el asunto o su hija sufrirá las consecuencias.

Tras tres años de "ausencia" -por asuntos amorosos con una bella rusa- el capitán inglés Willian Tennant (William Powell), llega de nuevo a Dublin para seguir enfrentando a los miembros del Sinn Féin que luchan por la independencia de Irlanda... pero, con tal suerte, que es asignado a vivir justo en el mismo edificio donde habita su amigo Andrew Kerr (Colin Clive), un oficial de inteligencia que se ha casado con Norah (Edna Best), quien devolverá a Tennant a un viejo y grato recuerdo.

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest

"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.

'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)

A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.

An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.