Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record.
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
Molly Bawn. British silent drama movie. Directed by Cecil M Hepworth. Starring Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome an Violet Hopson. adaptation of the1878 Irish novel of the same name by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. Molly Bawn the novel by M. W. Hungerford contains her most famous idiom: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." It is also referenced in chapter 8 of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Lord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.
A ten-part series of comedies in which a man repeatedly gets into trouble with his wife.
A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.
Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record. In this particular case, the singer and performer are not the same: Harry Buss is lip-syncing to singer Harry Fay (believed to be an alias of Stanley Kirkby).
A horse owner saves a girl jockey from being kidnapped by a knight.
'Devon. Rich widow helps poor squire by pretending his ancestor hid treasure.' (British Film Catalogue)
After his brother's suicide, Alec Dale is determined to get revenge on the woman that he believes drove him to his death.
Police pursue jewel thieves by motor-car and airplane.
A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.
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