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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
- In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, 'Prairie Love'.
- In Nigeria a jealous tin miner arouses the tribe against his rival.
- An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
- The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
- Marc Verdier, a former professor and devout catholic, lives in Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives, with his crippled wife and Septime, his eccentric brother. On his part,Jean-Louis, Marc's son is in Paris where he continues his studies. Or so he thinks, for, in actual fact, he is the leader of a dangerous anarchist network hiding under the code name of Sirias...
- A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu.
- A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
- An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
- A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.
- Aubrey Allington is an inventor with enormous ingenuity at dodging debts; but tradesmen all around are getting wise to his tricks. Just as he is about to resort to the desperate plan of inviting all his creditors to dinner and blowing them up en masse, he and his wife Louise discover to their astonishment that he has inherited a fortune from a distant relative which will enable them to pay off all their debts. However, begrudging the creditors so large a share in the money, they come up with an elaborate scheme which involves faking the indebted Aubrey's death in favour of the next heir named in the will, his cousin George Maitland. Unfortunately, Maitland turns out to have a wife to claim him, while their butler decides to get in on the act on his own behalf... not to mention the awkward fact that the real George is also on his way!
- A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.
- Documentary about the fishing trawler, "Isabella Grieg". We follow her from her base in Granton Harbour, in Edinburgh, right up the east coast of Edinburgh, up to the fishing grounds between Shetland and Norway.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- A hard ironmaster is blinded saving men in war and returns home to thwart a strike and win a Lady's daughter.
- A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
- A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.
- The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money from him. If Antonio can not repay the debt Shylock is allowed to cut a pound of meat out of Antonio's body. That is the deal.
- A convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share.
- Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
- A reconstruction of the Dover Patrol's bottling up of a U-boat base.
- An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
- Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
- Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge. He suspects Dr. Leslie Armstrong of Cambridge of having something to do with Staunton's disappearance. Dr. Armstrong's refusal to cooperate with Holmes and the lengths which he goes to in order to prevent Holmes from following him seem to bear out this suspicion. With the aid of a dog which has been trained to follow scents, Holmes tracks down Dr. Armstrong and finds out the truth behind the mystery.
- Reconstruction of various battles which took place at Ypres.
- A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
- A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
- A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
- A doctor working in an English country town lives with his wife, his eight year old son and his female cousin who works as his secretary. His blonde wife has a lover and she wants a divorce. She and her lover devise a plot to make it appear her husband is unfaithful. The husband is travelling with his secretary and finds he has run out of petrol. They are forced to stay the night at Ye Sweete Content Inn which only has one room. The secretary sleeps in the room and the husband sleeps downstairs sharing the inns living room with an eccentric Scotsman . During the night the lover tops up the husbands car with petrol. The wife and her lover arrive in the morning and accuse them of adultery. The only witness, the Scotsman has left. The case goes to court and the wife is granted a divorce and custody of the son. Things look bad for the husband who begins to fall in love with his secretary. The son runs away from his mother to be with his father again. The son has been beaten by the wifes lover. A servant offers to give evidence that the wife and lover are having an affaire. This prevents the divorce becoming final. The husband sees he can now have custody of his son but must take his wife back too. The Scotsman appears and offers to give evidence. The husband can now divorce his wife and keep his son. The film ends on a note of smug religiosity. A technically well made silent film, but very dated in subject matter. The story is all there but some of the editing is rough.
- A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of her past? How will the solution affect the haughty "lord?"
- A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A day in the life of a comedian.
- A rich boy and a gardener's son join the navy in 1914 and later save a girl from Mediterranean bandits.
- Holmes is asked by the Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead the UK into war.
- Tom Milburn, racing enthusiast experimenting with a new tire process, wants to marry Bess Stanton. However, her head is turned by a young man, Claude Roswell, driving a Rolls-Royce. The two men engage in a series of pranks culminating in Roswell's framing Tom for car theft. Tom's name is cleared, and so he is able to drive in the big race and test his experimental tires. The tires prove to be successful, and he wins the race, a manufacturer's royalty contract, and Bess.
- Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
- An Irish father, a fire-fighter. objects strongly when his son marries a Jewish girl, and even more so when he believes his son, a fire-department recruit, to be a coward and, later, a thief.
- A strange sort of man, with fiery red hair, comes to Holmes with a very pretty little problem. Why has his lucrative assignment of copying the encyclopedia been ended?