Edna Best

Au début du XXe siècle, Lucy, une jeune veuve londonienne, quitte les bords de la Tamise pour louer un cottage dans une station balnéaire de Whitecliff. Sa fille et sa gouvernante l’accompagnent. Là, Lucy va faire connaissance avec le fantôme de l’ex-maître des lieux : un vieil officier de marine, grognon, turbulent. Étrangement attachant aussi.

Cette idylle douce et amère a pour vedette Ingrid Bergman et Leslie Howard, amants tourmentés, forcés de choisir entre la passion et l'honneur. Quand Holger Brandt, violoniste renommé, découvre pour la première fois la professeur de piano de sa fille, il est immédiatement frappé par sa beauté et son talent. Ils tombent amoureux, et Holger quitte sa famille pour vivre avec elle. Mais il ne lui faut pas longtemps pour se rendre compte combien sa femme et sa fille lui manquent et il se fait beaucoup de soucis pour la peine qu'il leur a causée.

En vacances en Suisse avec leur fille, Bob et Jill Lawrence se lient d'amitié avec un Français qui est assassiné. Avant de mourir, il prévient Bob qu'un diplomate va également être assassiné. Pour empêcher le couple de parler, les futurs meurtriers enlèvent leur fille. Jill se rend a l'Albert Hall ou un tueur doit abattre le diplomate et tente de faire échouer l'attentat.

A Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko travaille au sein du service d'espionnage à l'ambassade soviétique du Canada. Marié et un enfant, il n'envisage plus de revenir au pays. Mais Igor supporte de plus en plus mal les méthodes de ses supérieurs...

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

Allemand Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) envoie nouvelles du 19e siècle par pigeon porteur, puis par fil, créant une agence de nouvelles.

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.

Un cadre familial pour une nouvelle vie à travers la mer est naufragé sur une île déserte. Les membres de la famille collaborent pour créer une maison pour eux-mêmes dans l'environnement jungle.

An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.

'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.

Dans le milieu aristocratique de la ville de Boston, début du XXe siècle, lors de l'inamovible repas de famille de la célèbre fête de "Thanksgiving", George Apley voit progressivement les ancestrales traditions de sa classe et de son milieu s'effriter ; sa fille, la délicieuse Eleonor est amoureuse d'un "vulgaire" enseignant à l'université et son fils John s'est entiché d'une quasi "roturière", alors que lui était promise, depuis toujours, sa cousine et amie d'enfance, Agnès...

"A wealthy young man, through losing the bulk of his fortune, goes to Canada, where he encounters and loves the daughter of the scoundrel lawyer who has robbed him." (Synopsis from The Bioscope, November 1930.)

Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations. He decides to get his own back with the help of Hillcott, an ex-burglar. Jill is the love interest

A neglected wife spends the night with a roué after drinking a sleeping draught.

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

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