Movies: Cecil Humphreys

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes comp...

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married....

A British adventure film directed by George King...

“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI....

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected....

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later murdered with the dagger used by Tony and his wife in their act, and Gaby is accused of the crime....

An idiot heir helps a wounded prince save the princess from forced marriage to a usurper....

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death....

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper....

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London....

Tom Donahue, a New York traffic cop, wins a trip to Europe in a newspaper contest, and he decides to visit relatives in Ireland. Arriving in Dublin, he learns that he is an exact double for Lord Fitzhugh, a young Irish aristocrat with whom he becomes...

“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI....

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures....

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Mino...

The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York....

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Agu...

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence....

An insurance agent poses as a king's double and saves him from anarchists....

A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated....

The Sorrows of Satan is a 1917 British silent fantasy film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Gladys Cooper, Owen Nares and Cecil Humphreys. Made at Isleworth Studios, and based on the novel of the same name, the plot involves a poverty-strick...