Gerald du Maurier

La femme qui deviendra Catherine la Grande se marie dans la famille royale russe lorsqu'elle épousera le grand-duc Pierre, le neveu de l'impératrice Elizabeth. Bien que le couple ait des moments de contentement, le comportement cruel et erratique de Peter provoque une rupture entre lui et Catherine. Quelques mois à peine après que Peter succède à sa tante à la tête de la Russie, une révolte se prépare et Catherine est sur le point de monter sur le trône en tant que nouvelle impératrice du pays.

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.

When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.

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 of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.

A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, dit le Juif Süss, est l'un des plus fameux " Juifs de cour ", conseillers et intermédiaires indispensables aux princes allemands du XVIIIe siècle. Homme ayant une intelligence hors du commun, une formidable habileté financière et politique lui permettant une ascension fulgurante, Joseph Süss est déjà connu dans toute l'Allemagne du Sud pour ses talents de financier lorsqu'il rencontre en 1732 le duc de Wurtemberg au service duquel il se place. Le pouvoir qu'il détient et le luxe dont il s'entoure lui valent la haine du peuple et de la cour. Il utilise aussi sa position pour protéger ses coreligionnaires. Mais le duc s'éprend de la fille de Süss et la déshonore. Alors, Süss oeuvre en secret à la perte du duc scellant du même coup et consciemment son propre destin tragique.

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

Young Tony, unable to make a living in crowded and fast-paced London, goes to South America in search of his fortune. He soon becomes the owner of a saloon and dance hall. One of the dancers in his place, Maxine, falls in love with him, but Tony is still in love with his childhood sweetheart Una, although Una is now a "party girl" back in London and has forgotten about Tony. However, Tony comes into an unexpected inheritance, along with a title, and returns to London for Una. Although disappointed with Una's current lifestyle, he asks her to marry him despite her "indiscretions". However, the night before they are to be married Una confesses a deep, dark secret to Tony that could change their lives forever.