A. Bromley Davenport Movies

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

A Duke's daughter loves an author and follows him to France, discovering her father withheld letters.

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner

In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot.

In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out...

Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in...

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and...

'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)

The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record....

'MP forces daughter to marry titled drug addict who dies when her lover tries to cure him.' (British Film Catalogue)

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable...

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham