Frank Miller

Struggling theatricals in a boarding house.

Macbeth is a black and white 1922 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was the last silent film version of that play produced,...

Dastardly deeds are afoot when rivals for the hand of a young woman vie against each other in a bicycle race.

Sacked clerk inherits £3000 a year and struggles when thrust into high society.

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo.

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his...

A look at the Londoner's love of flowers, from domestic gardens and florist's shops to the great market at Covent Garden and the Piccadilly Circus...

A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire...

In this episode of Wonderful London, comparisons are made between West End and East, old and new.

Featuring views behind the usual facade of London's streets including the mews behind St. George's Hospital, Philios Terrace, Kinnerton Street, Dr...

A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet...

London is viewed from the 'new and fascinating angle' of Regent's Canal, passing from the docks in Limehouse through east London, under Mile End...

The real London locations which formed the settings for various Dickens novels are shown, sometimes with characters from the books such as Little...

A pleasure boat takes us up the Thames from Canbury Gardens, below Kingston, Surrey, to Shepperton showing the grand houses fronting on to the river...

London's cosmopolitan inhabitants are celebrated in this episode, featuring scenes of Italian, French and Greek shops in Soho and the Whitechapel...

A cockney Coster exhorts his 'moke' (donkey) to take a trip to the outskirts of London to see the model home at Kennington Park, a windmill at...

A tour by horse-drawn bus, narrated by the driver, contrasts new buildings under construction in London with the old, travelling from the City along...

This episode features some favourite Sunday activities of Londoners, including scenes at the Gaiety Theatre and a young couple riding a motorcycle. A...

A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier...

Love Lies is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Lupino Lane and starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Boyd and Jack Hobbs. It was made by...

An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.

Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as...

When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the...

When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the...

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his...

British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson

A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.

A Jewess refuses to wed the man who saved her from suicide until he discovers his mother is Jewish.

A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.

It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trains. Allan has his song-writing friend Bill to...

Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard,...

Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister...

A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane

A clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.

A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.

A man helps a gambler by posing as an escaped lunatic to rob his father.

A man helps a gambler by posing as an escaped lunatic to rob his father.

A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.

A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lover.

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various...

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs...

A round-up of free events in London, including street entertainers, a puppet show, pavement artists, road menders, a daring demonstration by the fire...

Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.

Early British version of the tale of Samson. Fifth release in the 'Tense Moments from Opera' series.