Arnold Bennett

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the identity of his former servant, but finds himself faced with constant dilemmas as a result.

발레타인 윌모트(제임스 토머스)는 번화한 나이트클럽이자 레스토랑인 피카딜리 서커스의 소유자이다. 피카딜리의 스타는 윌모트가 키운 아름다운 댄서 메이블(질다 그레이)과 빅터라는 댄서 커플이다. 잘 나가던 빅터가 윌모트와의 불화로 클럽을 떠나자 메이블의 인기가 떨어지면서 클럽은 경영난을 겪게 된다. 손님의 불만으로 해고한 중국인 접시닦이 쇼쇼(아나 메이 웡)의 춤 솜씨를 보게 된 발레타인은 그녀를 댄서로 발탁하고 그녀는 큰 성공을 거두게 된다. 독일 출신 감독인 두폰트가 영국으로 건너가 연출한 이 영화는 독일 표현주의와 영국적 소재가 적절히 섞인 느와르 풍의 무성영화이다. 삼각관계 질투, 그로 인한 살인, 거짓증언, 자살 등 멜로드라마의 전형을 따르고 있다. 중국계 미국배우인 아나 메이 웡은 팜므파탈 쇼쇼로 분해 개봉 당시 큰 반향을 불러 일으켰다. 아나 메이 웡의 마지막 무성영화로 2004년 BFI에서 복원한 디지털 버전으로 상영된다. (2015 한국영상자료원 - 발굴, 복원 그리고 초기영화로의 초대)

Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz, a celebrated pianist, at a concert and spends the evening with him. Later, in London, she acquires fame as a novelist and is followed to France by married publisher Frank Ispenlove, who commits suicide when she spurns him. In Paris, Carlotta finds Diaz a physical wreck from drinking absinthe and devotes herself to his regeneration.

An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.

Jane is a rootless young lady who finds an abandoned child and adopts it as her own. The decision, however, leads to great conflict with the child's vicious outlaw father.