Movies: Mary Clare

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar....

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door....

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin....

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd....

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder....

An heir, framed by his cousin for killing his father, breaks jail and saves his wife from a fire....

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies....

Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome....

Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Under...

Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller....

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank....

The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals....

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue...

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility....

An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor....

A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend....

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It ...

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....

A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count....

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result....