Marie Ault
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1870-09-02
Locus Natus: Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK
Et ut: Mary Cragg, Emily Cragg
The Speckled Band
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
release : 1931.03.05popularis : 1.963
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who...
release : 1927.02.14popularis : 11.323
I See a Dark Stranger
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...
release : 1946.07.04popularis : 2.566
Paddy The Next Best Thing
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
release : 1923.01.01popularis : 0.971
Love on the Dole
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...
release : 1941.06.28popularis : 5.388
Victory
'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1928.04.11popularis : 1.183
The Three Weird Sisters
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the...
release : 1948.02.26popularis : 1.68
They Knew Mr. Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...
release : 1946.03.05popularis : 2.08
It Happened One Sunday
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.
release : 1944.07.28popularis : 1.357
The Man from Morocco
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the...
release : 1945.04.17popularis : 2.872
The Rat
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron,...
release : 1925.09.07popularis : 1.857
The Missing Million
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The...
release : 1942.03.01popularis : 0.995
Dawn
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
release : 1928.01.01popularis : 1.72
Woman to Woman
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...
release : 1923.01.02popularis : 1.059
Freedom Radio
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps....
release : 1941.02.04popularis : 2.174
The Triumph of the Rat
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she...
release : 1926.03.21popularis : 1.46
Jamaica Inn
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...
release : 1939.05.11popularis : 8.365
The Monkey's Paw
A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son.
release : 1923.02.01popularis : 0.999
Maid Happy
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1933.06.16popularis : 0.576
Hindle Wakes
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
release : 1927.09.12popularis : 3.658
Yellow Stockings
'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...
release : 1928.10.01popularis : 1.245
Money for Speed
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
release : 1933.03.01popularis : 0.953
The Alley Cat
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
release : 1929.03.21popularis : 1.443
Blithe Spirit
An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough...
release : 1945.04.05popularis : 14.926
Their Night Out
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
release : 1933.03.01popularis : 1.637
The Prude's Fall
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
release : 1925.11.23popularis : 0.741
Third Time Lucky
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...
release : 1931.02.26popularis : 0.639
Class and No Class
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp.
release : 1921.11.01popularis : 0.885
Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...
release : 1941.05.14popularis : 2.218
Contraband Love
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1931.04.01popularis : 1.192
Blanche Fury
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche...
release : 1948.02.19popularis : 4.778
The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...
release : 1943.11.18popularis : 2.854
Madame Pompadour
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
release : 1927.08.01popularis : 2.073
Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
release : 1946.06.17popularis : 5.106
Madness of the Heart
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
release : 1949.12.20popularis : 2.515
The Silver Lining
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...
release : 1928.02.01popularis : 0.886
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
release : 1945.12.11popularis : 5.417
Cheer the Brave
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...
release : 1951.08.01popularis : 1.253
Kitty
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...
release : 1929.06.15popularis : 1.232
Roses of Picardy
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
release : 1927.04.01popularis : 1.473
The Return of the Rat
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,...
release : 1929.05.30popularis : 0.985
Lend Me Your Wife
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
release : 1935.10.01popularis : 0.505