Edith Sharpe

A priest arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest, who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of the church. However, Communist soldiers arrive at the mission and seize it as a command post. Their leader rapes the native girl and impregnates her, only later to realize that Communism is no good for him. In the end, the foursome flee to the border, but are pursued by Communist forces along the way.

Um criminoso encantador mas implacável, Gore Hepburn, mantém a família de um refém, gerente do banco, Harry Fordyce, como parte de um plano a sangue frio para roubar 97.000 libras. O bandido afável e cruel sequestra a esposa e o filho do gerente de banco e depois disfarça-se como um detetive de uma companhia de seguros, enquanto está planejando roubar a instituição neste crime. Infelizmente, alguns dos funcionários do gerente aprendem sobre a trama e o gerente aterrorizado deve pedir-lhes para permanecer em silêncio. Felizmente, os policiais têm percebido sobre o caso todo.

Nascido em berço de ouro, cercado de privilégios, paixões e luxo, Francisco de Assis veio a ser um dos mais amados e reverenciados santos da história. Bradford Dillman interpreta de modo marcante o ambicioso aventureiro que ouve a voz de Deus e responde abandonando sua vida de conforto. Ao trocar a espada pela cruz, ele se eleva à glória... Mas acaba tendo o trabalho de sua vida ameaçado por uma hierarquia corrupta e ciumenta dentro da própria Igreja. Sob a batuta de Michael Curtiz, famoso diretor de Casablanca, esta história épica de coragem e sacrifício é uma inspiração para toda a família.

Toda sua vida a inglesa Gladys Aylward sabia que a China era o lugar onde ela pertencia. Não qualificada para ser enviado para lá como missionária, Gladys trabalha como doméstica para ganhar o dinheiro necessário para custear a viagem à uma pobre aldeia remota chinesa. Lá, ela finalmente vive uma vida plena e feliz. tocando uma pousada, atuando como "Inspetora de Pés", aconselhando o mandarim local e até mesmo ganhando o coração do mestiço Capitão Lin Nan. Mas Gladys descobre seu verdadeiro destino, quando o país é invadido pelo Japão e as crianças chinesas precisam dela para salvarem suas vidas. Baseado em uma história verdadeira.

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.

Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...

A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.

Old Mother Riley is a British comedy film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Barbara Everest, Patrick Ludlow and Hubert Leslie. Mother Riley and her daughter stop the plans of some disinherited relatives to overturn the terms of a will. It was the first in the Old Mother Riley series of films.

George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.

Cheng Huan é um ex-missionário que agora trabalha em uma pequena loja em Londres. Nela, ele conhece Lucy Burrows, a jovem filha de um boxeador abusivo, e o encontro muda a vida dos dois.

This cheerful maze of melody, song, comedy and drama showcases the talents of Henry Hall and His Dance Band.

Billie Burke, the real-life wife of Flo Ziegfeld, plays Ziegfeld Follies dancer Elizabeth Banks who falls for a wealthy young man. His parents are shocked--and so is Elizabeth when she decides she'd rather have her beau's nerdish brother. She turns the mouse into a lion so that he'll be a worthy husband.