John Halifax, Gentleman
Jun 01, 1915An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.
Drama
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In Corsica, a lieutenant trails brigands and saves a captured flag.
An army officer comes to the aid of a girl who is the object of unwelcome attention from some locals.
Drama
Deadwood Dick's Vengeance
Oct 01, 1915A Study in Scarlet
Oct 01, 1914Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Nov 23, 1914A pauper tells workhouse visitors of his wife's death from starvation.
Drama
The Sting of Death
Jun 01, 1921The Gentle Doctor
Mar 01, 1921Buttons
Apr 01, 1915Straws in the Wind
Mar 01, 1924A benefactor ejects a tramp who covets his wife and later adopts the child of the girl the tramp saved from suicide.
Drama
How Kitchener Was Betrayed
Nov 01, 1922
Aaron's Rod
Jan 01, 1923A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
Crime
The Call of Siva
Oct 01, 1923Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a visit to London from a plot by Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Drama
The Clue of the Pigtail
Sep 24, 1923Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
Crime
The Queen of Hearts
Nov 26, 1923Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
Crime
The Fiery Hand
Nov 12, 1923In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of a fright than they expected. Caught by the evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith faces a plague of ravenous Cantonese rats - a torture known as 'The Six Gates of Joyful Wisdom'. Will Petrie end his agony, with the razor-sharp ‘Friend’s Sword’?
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The West Case
Sep 17, 1923Second release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Plans for an aerial torpedo are stolen from its inventor Frank Norris West, Nayland Smith tries to retrieve them but is defeated by Fu-Manchu.
Crime
The Cry of the Nighthawk
Oct 29, 1923n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man from Forest Hill found with his face covered with scratches; their enquiries lead them once more to the Devil Doctor, Fu-Manchu. Meanwhile, Petrie’s stiff upper lip begins to quiver, as he grows dangerously fond of Fu-Manchu’s slave girl, Karamaneh...
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The Miracle
Oct 08, 1923
The Man with the Limp
Nov 19, 1923This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie disguises himself as a rough bargee to investigate a smoky riverside drinking den, the Joy-Shop Club.
Crime
The Fungi Cellars
Oct 15, 1923Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
Crime
The Knocking on the Door
Oct 22, 1923The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the persona of a long-bearded professor, Fu-Manchu pays a visit to London's Madame Tussauds waxworks. Elsewhere, there's something horribly uncanny going on at a remote country cottage: sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie leave the capital to investigate.
Crime
The Silver Buddha
Dec 03, 1923Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
Crime
Lights of London
Apr 01, 1914Drama
The Adventure of the Torture Cage
Mar 11, 1928Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Crime
The Sacred Order
Dec 10, 1923When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
Crime
The Shrine of the Seven Lamps
Dec 17, 1923In this thrilling final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads sleuth Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?
Crime
The Rogues of London
Apr 01, 1915A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.
Crime
The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu
Aug 01, 1924Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
Crime
Black Peter
Mar 01, 1922
The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu
Apr 15, 1923A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
Crime
Three-Fingered Kate - The Wedding Presents
Jul 01, 1912'Crooks tunnel through fireplace to rob house next door.' (British Film Catalogue). According to BFI, this is the only surviving film of 7 episodes made in the Three-Fingered Kate series
The Tube of Death
Jun 01, 1913'Inventor's wife avenges death by posing as anarchist and exploding their den.' (British Film Catalogue)
Sixty Years a Queen
Nov 01, 1913'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
O.H.M.S.
Apr 01, 1913
East Lynne
May 01, 1913An aristocratic woman, Lady Isabel, leaves her husband and children when she suspects him of adultery, a notion which had been suggested to her by the scheming and murderous Captain Levison. Life on the continent with Levison does not work out as she had envisaged so, eight years later, she returns to England and finds her husband has remarried. She cannot bear to be away from her family and so dons a disguise, gaining employment with them as a governess. When her young son, Willie, dies she is unable to comfort him as she would like, and she too dies.
Drama
The Gentleman Ranker
Jul 14, 1912Drama
Her Greatest Performance
Aug 01, 1916Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.
Crime
Lady Windermere's Fan
Jul 01, 1916Deadwood Dick's Vengeance
Oct 01, 1915
The Luck of the Navy
Nov 22, 1927The Adventure of the Torture Cage
Mar 11, 1928Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Crime
Her Greatest Performance
Aug 01, 1916Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.
Crime
The Jest
Jun 30, 1921A fantastic British entry from the ‘Grand Guignol’ series. After his wife leaves him, an old man suffers for 40 years, longing for her to return, until one day his fellow lodgers decide to play a vicious prank… (chapter.org)
Horror
The Second Mrs Tanqueray
May 22, 1916
Yellow Stockings
Oct 01, 1928'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)
Romance
Masks and Faces
Mar 01, 1917Morita
Dec 31, 1931Romany Love
Feb 24, 1931
In a Lotus Garden
Feb 25, 1931
The Broken Melody
Feb 01, 1929An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Romance
The Broken Melody
Feb 01, 1929An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Romance
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oct 24, 1916The Sting of Death
Jun 01, 1921The Last Appeal
Mar 01, 1921A judge, adamant he was right to pass the death penalty for a crime of passion, makes a terrible discovery which leads him to question his decision.
Drama
The Gentle Doctor
Mar 01, 1921The Oath
Mar 01, 1921The Oath
Mar 01, 1921The Flat
Mar 01, 1921The Flat
Mar 01, 1921Masks and Faces
Mar 01, 1917The Adventure of the Torture Cage
Mar 11, 1928Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Crime
The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu
Aug 01, 1924Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
Crime
The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu
Aug 01, 1924Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
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