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- Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?
- When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
- Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
- A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition.
- The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her husband by putting a real bullet in the prop gun which will be fired at him during the making of their new film, 'Prairie Love'.
- A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu.
- A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wanting her to take the place of his beloved mother, and makes life miserable for his new stepsister..
- A silent documentary film by John Grierson telling the story of Britain's North Sea herring fishery.
- The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money from him. If Antonio can not repay the debt Shylock is allowed to cut a pound of meat out of Antonio's body. That is the deal.
- A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restaurateur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice.
- Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
- An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
- A British playboy in Paris marries a dancer and convinces her to give up her career to move to a small cottage in the country. One night at a party given by her former manager, she is persuaded to perform one of the dances she was renowned for. That leads to a fight with her husband, who runs out of the party in the middle of a raging storm. Her subsequent search for him ends up placing her life in danger.
- A cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.
- A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
- A sacked clerk inherits £3,000 a year, tries society, and returns to his working-class sweetheart.
- In Nigeria a jealous tin miner arouses the tribe against his rival.
- Reconstruction of various battles which took place at Ypres.
- The marquis de Granier would like his son Charles to end his current relationship for a respectable marriage. His younger brother Octave tries to help but Yvonne Lelys tricks him and he nearly leaves his family for the dancer. He even follows her to Constantinople. He falls asleep while writing to his father and dreams that he is a movie actor who, driven by poverty, sneaks into his father's home to rob him. As his father catches him, he kills him. Thankfully, it was all a dream.
- One of the first epic films made in Austria, as in some of the similar Cecil B De Mille entries, a fusion of a biblical story with a modern update.
- Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam. If the guilty party cannot be found, the exam will have to be cancelled. If the exam is cancelled, everybody will know that something went wrong in its preparation and a scandal will result. In order to avoid a scandal, Soames turns to the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes for help.
- A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.
- A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
- The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
- A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.
- Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
- A convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share.
- Documentary about the fishing trawler, "Isabella Grieg". We follow her from her base in Granton Harbour, in Edinburgh, right up the east coast of Edinburgh, up to the fishing grounds between Shetland and Norway.
- During World War I, the British navy disguised some of its warships as civilian cargo ships, known as Q Ships, in order to fool the Germans. German U-boat commander Capt. Von Haag spots one of these ships, commanded by Adm. Sims, in the English Channel and begins tracking it, leading to a war of nerves between Von Haag and Sims.
- Holmes is asked by the Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead the UK into war.
- Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
- A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
- A wife learns her husband has another wife but stays with him for her children's sake.
- A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.
- French and English detectives catch the opium smuggler who killed a novelist's wife.
- A man steals a jewel back from a gang and saves his captured wife.
- Melodrama of a boy taken from his family, adopted by a coachman,who grows up to be secretary to the minister of Justice, and to uncover dark plots, spearheaded by a femme fatale, that affected his own life and the lives of others.
- A widowed Lady, forced into marriage, grows to love her husband when he saves a child from a cliff.
- An estate claimant is cleared of murder but is found to be an impostor.
- An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
- David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful Ruth Dent (Olive Borden).
- The British Queen rouses the Iceni, but is defeated by the Romans.
- A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
- A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.