Movies: James Carew

When mild mannered Joe comes into an inheritance, he leaves his job as a clerk, and embarks on a sea cruise. Posing as a successful writer, Joe attracts various attractive women to him on the voyage, but his deceptions start to land him in trouble....

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape....

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert....

During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one....

Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that ...

A rich American businessman in London makes believe he's lost all his money so that his daughter will marry a composer....

George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain ...

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen....

Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune....

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician a...

Film portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley....

'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)...

A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit....

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial....

'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A British drama film directed by Denison Clift...

'Devon. Farming brothers give home to orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.' (British Film Catalogue)...

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly highly successful when it first opened, the film would later fall into obscurity, with all copies be...

A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry....

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)...