Mary Glynne

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...

A poor girl refuses to wed a millionaire when he sends her sick sweetheart to Africa.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.

A widow enlists the support of a King's Counsel to help clear herself of the accusation she had murdered her husband by a suspicious coroner

A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.

A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.