Movies: Torin Thatcher

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus....

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the ti...

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder....

Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard....

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort....

By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, handcuffs and... Scotland Yard's jails....

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store....

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace....

A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer....

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them....

Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. Thi...

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet....

A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead...or does he?...

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really was. But one day, they journey to Macworth Castle. There, Myles falls in love with Lady Anne Macworth...

A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the war in the Crimea, where she had gained such fame that her name was virtually a household word....

David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer's railway construction site. He's accompanied by the owner's son Brian and they've lined up Jack Cuortemayn, reputedly the best guide available, to take them there. Cuortemayn refuses as he doesn't...

"The Common Touch" tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils who are working as missionaries in Africa....

Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates....

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man....

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life....