Monckton Hoffe

Nascimento : 1880-12-26, Islington, London, England, UK

Morte : 1951-11-04

Filmes

Four Days
Theatre Play
A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!
The Lady with a Lamp
Lord Stratford
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Travessuras de Julia
Writer
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.
As Três Noites de Eva
Screenplay
Depois de um ano estudando ofídios amazônicos, o rico - porém rústico - Charles Pike conhece em um navio Jean Harrington, uma golpista. Eles se apaixonam, mas um engano os separa. Para reconquistá-lo, Jean se disfarça como uma senhora inglesa e volta para atormentá-lo.
As Três Noites de Eva
Story
Depois de um ano estudando ofídios amazônicos, o rico - porém rústico - Charles Pike conhece em um navio Jean Harrington, uma golpista. Eles se apaixonam, mas um engano os separa. Para reconquistá-lo, Jean se disfarça como uma senhora inglesa e volta para atormentá-lo.
Busman's Honeymoon
Screenplay
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Many Waters
Writer
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Screenplay
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Pagliacci
Writer
Canio and his Comedia dell'Arte troupe tour Italy. His wife Nedda meets a young cadet and they plan to elope. He tries to leave her when he finds how important she is for his husband, but a rejected trouper interferes. As jealous Canio suspects the truth the tragedy approaches. The film was partly made in Ufacolor.
Mares da China
Writer
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
What Every Woman Knows
Screenplay
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Outcast Lady
Writer
A woman's dubious past proves to be a stumbling block when she becomes engaged to marry.
The Queen's Affair
Dialogue
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Mystery of Mr. X
Additional Dialogue
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
Bitter Sweet
Additional Dialogue
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
The Little Damozel
Theatre Play
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
The Faithful Heart
Theatre Play
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.
Many Waters
Registrar
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Many Waters
Writer
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
High Seas
Story
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Flame of Love
Scenario Writer
In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
The Flame of Love
Writer
In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
Hai-Tang. Der Weg zur Schande
Writer
The Hate Ship
Dialogue
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.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Dialogue
A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Under the Greenwood Tree
Scenario Writer
A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Street Angel
Theatre Play
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
The Man Without Desire
Writer
A doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
Panthea
Theatre Play
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.