C.M. Hallard
Actor · 1865 – 1942 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Movies24
Movie9.0War'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Carry On!
1927 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA shopkeeper's daughter marries a cad who ruins the business.
Mrs. Thompson
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0CrimeThriller
Night Mail
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaHer Story
1920 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaWhen cabinet minister John Hoode is murdered at his country house, his secretary, Alan Deacon, is the prime suspect and is arrested. Reporter Anthony Gethryn determines to unmask the real murderer.
The Rasp
1932 · 1 votes
Movie8.0WarActionA tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
The W Plan
1930 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ActionCrimeRevolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
King of the Damned
1935 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCrimeThe daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
Strictly Business
1931 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
Compromising Daphne
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Music
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
The Sky’s the Limit
1937 · 1 votes
- Movie6.7Comedy
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Jack of All Trades
1936 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0CrimeDrama
A lady gambler shields her brother by claiming responsibility for a forgery he committed.
Gamblers All
1919 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0CrimeDrama
Villainous convict Ralph Vickers plots against a Mill owner Mr. Lucas. Vickers works to undermine Lucas while pursuing his daughter, Geraldine. Vickers' schemes are eventually thwarted by the mill’s office boy, who manages to baffle the villain's designs.
Convict 99
1919 · 1 votes
Movie5.5CrimeMysteryInvestor Robert Norman murdered before meeting. Police investigate. Journalist Claire Haines pursues story to impress editor. Intertwining narratives of crime solving and reporting unfold.
The Riverside Murder
1935 · 13 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
Love in the Wilderness
1920 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Mystery
Lord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.
The Case of Lady Camber
1920 · 1 votes
Movie5.9RomanceWarDuring the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Moscow Nights
1934 · 4 votes
Movie10.0RomanceComedyFacing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Knowing Men
1930 · 1 votes
Movie8.3DramaWarIn England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
Tell England
1931 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
Rolling in Money
1934 · 1 votes
Movie10.0RomanceDramaConcerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.
A Light Woman
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaWarAn old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Two Worlds
1930 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
In Rhodesia, a woman leaves her cruel husband when their baby dies.
The Edge o' Beyond
1919 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceGreta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
On Secret Service
1933 · 4 votes