Drusilla Wills
Actor · 1884 – 1951 · London, England, UK
Movies23
Movie6.1DramaRomanceAfter marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
The Man in Grey
1943 · 47 votes
MovieComedyVillage romance and gossip collide amongst the West Country fisherfolk of Yellow Sands, as the Varwell family gathers to celebrate the birthday of their aging matriarch, Jennifer. Apart from her Communist nephew, faithful companion and sozzled brother, everyone pays their homage with one eye towards shoring up their expected inheritances - but Jennifer may have her own ideas when she finally makes out her will.
Yellow Sands
1938
Movie6.5DramaFantasyA czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
The Queen of Spades
1949 · 62 votes
Movie5.9MysteryCrimeWhen actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Murder!
1930 · 159 votes
Movie6.7DramaA fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947 · 22 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeA young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
Non-Stop New York
1937 · 12 votes
Movie4.8ComedyDramaA run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
A Girl Must Live
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaMysteryA general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
The High Command
1937 · 10 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaA man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
Champagne Charlie
1944 · 11 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
Farce centered on a married man, Barrington (Guy Newall), who pretends to be single while his wife, Mrs. Barrington (Irene Rich), is traveling in America. Complications arise when a guest at a hydrotherapy clinic is bitten by a parrot and, in a fit of pique, encourages the bird to bite every other male guest at the facility.
What the Butler Saw
1924 · 1 votes
Movie6.5HistoryThe story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
The First Gentleman
1948 · 4 votes
- Movie9.0DramaWar
A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
The Old Wives' Tale
1921 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Drama'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)
To What Red Hell
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMusicThe owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Britannia of Billingsgate
1933 · 3 votes
Movie5.4ActionThrillerAn elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
The Lodger
1932 · 14 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Old Spanish Customers
1932 · 2 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
The Big Splash
1935 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
A young man impersonates a doctor.
The Medicine Man
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.8ComedyDramaThe fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Johnny Frenchman
1945 · 5 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerMysteryA gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
The Black Abbot
1934 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.
The Happy Ending
1925 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Comedy
Little Miss Nobody
1933 · 1 votes
Movie6.5WarDramaBased on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film tells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
Welcome, Mr Washington
1944 · 2 votes