Movies: Warwick Ward

At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he was involved as a Natal police commissioner. In it there were three guilty persons, but only one of the...

With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions ...

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story....

This silent-screen classic, like many others produced near the end of the silent era, was both a theatrical extravaganza boasting an original orchestral score and an item which languished in obscurity for many years. When Carlo Piccardi took what was...

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brot...

The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not ...

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation....

Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son....

In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire....

A murder takes place in a film studio during the shooting of a new film....

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in the Atlantic that makes long-distance flights viable. Ellissen is in love with company heiress Claire...

Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret....

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade,...

A boxer saves a girl from a noble kidnapper....

Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an Ameri...

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love....

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)...

Drama set around a circus at Blackpool. A clown loves a young housekeeper and saves her from a fire caused by a jealous lion tamer....

A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child....

In 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man....