Sybil Thorndike Filmes

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation...

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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,...

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

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

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an...

British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe....

Part of serial Tense Moments from Great Plays.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought...

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.