Sydney Fairbrother Movies

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon...

A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.

A seamstress stops a poor ex-soldier from becoming a left-wing agitator.

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays...

For a prank one of the waiters at a temperance meeting spikes the lemonade with alcohol.

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

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...

BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play

A British crime film directed by Mansfield Markham

An Irish singer heads to America to seek fame and fortune. Once successful he returns home to search for his family.

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.

A young man from a wealthy background takes a job working as a porter at the fruit and vegetable market in Covent Garden.

A clerk's service as subaltern spoils him for menial work.

Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a...