When multi-millionaire banker John Argyle is found brutally murdered in his home, suspicions are cast upon Mary Mazuret, his adopted daughter who became the sole beneficiary of his estate under his will, Argyle having quarrelled with his son Bruce. Just as the case begins to look black for Mary, Asche Kayton, a great private detective, is called in by Bruce and takes hold of the investigation.

The wanton dancer Thais, tries to entice Paphnutius from becoming a monk but fails. He later returns...

During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his s...

Famous playwright Paul Worden decamps to a country bungalow to work on a new play, rehearsing with h...
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an hei...
King Henry VIII smitten with Anne Boleyn wishes to displace his estimable Queen Catherine for her. H...
A concert pianist loses his hearing but finds a new sense of purpose by helping others. A British dr...
Robert Denman, a manager at a construction company, loses everything he has to the throws of alcohol...

A lonely wife becomes obsessed with furs and keeps bad company in an effort to obtain more.
The film opens in a camp of Girl Guides where the leader reads from Scripture and then tells the sto...
Comedy of manners about the corrupt high society of 18th-century England, centering on Lady Sneerwel...

Despondent over the infidelity of his wife, William McCabe wanders on the waterfront considering sui...
Mary Young is a young wife who wants beautiful clothes. Her friend Enid invites her to shop at Madam...
A reverend attempts to raise the money necessary to open up a boys' club and clashes with a wealthy ...
After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.

In the days long ago when knights were brave and venturesome, enchanted forests grew and mythical cr...
Herbert Warning inherits a fortune. He becomes engaged to a society girl who leaves him for another ...

Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight c...

Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train be...

In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lo...

The story begins with a man and a woman, both married, who flag the same taxi and then decide to sha...