The Rogues of London 1915
A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.
A cleric's son saves a maid from suicide and she saves him when he is framed for killing a crook's mistress.
The life and loves of Jane Shore, mistress to Edward IV. An early British epic.
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.
'1837-1901. Main events during Queen Victoria's reign.' (British Film Catalogue)
An unfit carpenter trails spies through a secret tunnel and blows them up.
Cardsharpers gas a drunkard and make him think he has killed his wife, so that he helps them plan a bank raid.
King James' agent saves a Dutch princess and marries her as the King's proxy.
A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
A drunken gambler reforms after dreaming of ruination.