Movies: Marie Ault

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced w...

Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the ...

A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love....

Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the...

The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when...

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son....

The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the theft of some pearls but when his brother is imprisoned he eventually confesses his crime to his mot...

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him de...

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her....

A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her clutches....

Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in mo...

A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing....

'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first gave her shelter.' (British Film Institute)...

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A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband....

A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight....

"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer....

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The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard....

'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)...