Fred Withers

Helen Norwood est encore étudiante lorsqu'elle rencontre Jim Wyndham, un aviateur en partance pour Ceylan. Attirés l'un par l'autre, ils vivent une relation passionnée et Helen a le cœur déchiré par son départ. A l'université, Helen est remarquée pour son travail par le célèbre professeur Paul Bernardy, dont elle devient l'assistante. Depuis Ceylan, Jim envoie un télégramme pour demander Helen en mariage. Mais elle ne reçoit pas le message. Helen, Paul et Jim se retrouvent quelques années plus tard. Helen est désormais mariée au professeur qui avait été le tuteur de Jim. Ces retrouvailles avec son amour passé réveillent en elle un tumulte d'émotions...

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.

A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?

A young man is wrongly accused of a brutal murder, is tried and sentenced to death. En route to the prison there is a major train crash and his guards are killed along with an anonymous traveller in the same compartment. He swaps his personal belongings with the dead man and escapes but things don't quite go to plan.

A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.

A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.