C.M. Hallard

Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost city and civilization. The professors and sailor then find themselves fighting for their lives against pirates to escape the island alive.

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Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.

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In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.

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Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.

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Investor Robert Norman murdered before meeting. Police investigate. Journalist Claire Haines pursues story to impress editor. Intertwining narratives of crime solving and reporting unfold.

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During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.

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Set in an Old Dark House, a man is murdered in his study. With his dying breath, he tells his brother of two clues to finding hidden Eastern Indian jewels that were part of a precious idol. He wants his brother to locate the treasure, so that it can be given to his son. But before the treasure can be found, a third clue must be discovered.

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An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.

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Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.

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When cabinet minister John Hoode is murdered at his country house, his secretary, Alan Deacon, is the prime suspect and is arrested. Reporter Anthony Gethryn determines to unmask the real murderer.

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A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.

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The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.

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In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.

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An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.

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A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.

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An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him.

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An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

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A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.

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Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.

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Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.

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'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)

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Lord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.

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Millionaire Kent Whitney (the explorer) fakes his death and returns to find his fiancée, Myra Hastings, being pursued by other men, especially rejected suitor Bob Harkness. To see if his wife truly loves him or just his money, the "dead" husband takes a job as a butler in his own home. He observes Myra's interactions and deals with the societal pressure on rich American women to marry European aristocrats for titles, a theme often called "husband-hunting".

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A shopkeeper's daughter marries a cad who ruins the business.

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Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.

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A lady gambler shields her brother by claiming responsibility for a forgery he committed.

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In Rhodesia, a woman leaves her cruel husband when their baby dies.

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Lord Louis Lewis vows not to marry until his crippled fiancée, Sylvane Sheridan, passes away, despite temptations from other women like Jill Hargreaves, highlighting his devotion and the constraints placed on his life by her condition. The film centers on this poignant romance and loyalty, with Lord Louis remaining faithful as he waits for Sylvane, even as other suitors vie for his attention.

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Villainous convict Ralph Vickers plots against a Mill owner Mr. Lucas. Vickers works to undermine Lucas while pursuing his daughter, Geraldine. Vickers' schemes are eventually thwarted by the mill’s office boy, who manages to baffle the villain's designs.

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Miss Blossom passes through middle age caring for her widowed brother and his only child, a daughter. A handsome explorer returns from an expedition and meets the family, whereupon he falls in love with the daughter. He departs for another long expedition, leaving behind a message regarding his intent to marry the daughter upon his return. But the message is misdirected to the elder Miss Blossom, who secretly loves the explorer and now awaits his return from far-off lands in joyous expectation of their marriage.

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