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HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was discovered in a vault in Canada.
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.
A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)
Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
An IRA man races to Dublin to warn his colleagues of a forthcoming raid, but he is captured by British forces.
A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.