Movies: Henry Edwards

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and ...

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."...

A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household....

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII....

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice...

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman....

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was...

A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy....

Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium....

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In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?...

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimea...

The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with...

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?...

The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When...

A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case....

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money....

'Poor lord poses as butler to avoid framed arrest for theft.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance....

A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major....