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In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
A 1923 version of the Charles Dickens classic with Russell Thorndike playing Scrooge.
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
'Man shelters from storm in old hour used by diamond smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!