Fred Paul

British horror drama short from 1921.

Open details →

Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Open details →

Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Open details →

A 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.

Open details →

Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Open details →

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

Open details →

A squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.

Open details →

Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.

Open details →

Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.

Open details →

Open details →

The film follows the title character—a legendary frontiersman—as he seeks retribution against outlaws. It served as a direct sequel to How Richard Harris Became Known as Deadwood Dick (1915) and was followed by Deadwood Dick and the Mormons (1915).

Open details →

Part of the ‘Grand Guignol’ series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Open details →

This 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.

Open details →

In 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’?

Open details →

n 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...

Open details →

The 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.

Open details →

Fu-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?

Open details →

Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.

Open details →

Fourth 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.

Open details →

Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.

Open details →

Second 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.

Open details →

A 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.

Open details →

A 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

Open details →

A dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.

Open details →

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Open details →

British horror drama short from 1921.

Open details →

Part of the 'Grand Guignol' series of 1-reel macabre drama shorts.

Open details →

The film follows the title character—a legendary frontiersman—as he seeks retribution against outlaws. It served as a direct sequel to How Richard Harris Became Known as Deadwood Dick (1915) and was followed by Deadwood Dick and the Mormons (1915).

Open details →

An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.

Open details →

A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.

Open details →

A man trailing burglars is saved by a dog in this British short film.

Open details →

A pauper tells workhouse visitors of his wife's death from starvation.

Open details →

Sherlock Holmes solves a murder rooted in the Mormon trek of 1850.

Open details →

Open details →

'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)

Open details →

'Inventor's wife avenges death by posing as anarchist and exploding their den.' (British Film Catalogue)

Open details →

An 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.

Open details →

'Spy blackmails commander's wife into stealing treaty.' (British Film Catalogue)

Open details →

Open details →

'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

Open details →

In Corsica, a lieutenant trails brigands and saves a captured flag.

Open details →