Humberston Wright Movies

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

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.

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

This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general...

Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile...

A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

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

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.

A change in a will, a murder and a mysterious letter. The police look to a former cat burglar to aid them in the investigation.

This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes missing, it's up to Dr Petrie to continue the hunt for the Si-Fan, Fu-Manchu's secret society. On the trail of a mysterious man with a limp, Petrie...

A detective matches wits with a group of thieves out to steal a priceless amulet.

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

George and Katherine plan to marry but war breaks out. When he returns on two weeks leave, but has his marriage proposal put down by Katherine, George enters a relationship with another woman.

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.

A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.

Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.