Mary Brough

A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.

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A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.

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'Comedy concerning a bank clerk who uses his inheritance to fund a serious drams which, ironically, succeeds as a burlesque.' (BFI)

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Mrs Todd is aggrieved at finding that the country house she has bought is evidently haunted. Sir Hector Benbow and his nephew, on behalf of the previous owner, set out to demonstrate that there is no ghost.

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Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.

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A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.

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A comedy film directed by and starring Tom Walls.

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'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)

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A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.

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A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.

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An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.

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A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.

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'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

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'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)

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An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.

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A rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.

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A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.

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A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.

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A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan.

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Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....

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Harold Armytage is disowned, then framed for murder by his conniving cousin, Clifford, to steal his inheritance. After escaping jail, Harold rescues his wife, Bess, and brings the true villains to justice.

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Tons of Money is a 1924 British silent comedy film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson, Flora le Breton and Mary Brough. Aubrey Allington is pursued by creditors and on learning of a family inheritance is persuaded by his wife to fake his own death and return as his own long-lost relative, George Maitland, the rightful claimant. Things get complicated when the real Maitland turns up with another Maitland impersonator, the brother of Aubrey’s butler, Sprules. It is an adaptation of the 1922 play Tons of Money by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. Both were co-produced with Tom Walls. It was remade as a sound film Tons of Money in 1930

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An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.

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A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.

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A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

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A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

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A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

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A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.

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

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Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

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A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.

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