John MacAndrews Movies

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 believed to be destroyed. In 2007, a print was...

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away from her family, but is reluctant to reveal the full story. Intent on concealing her identity from her pursuers, Denis coerces her into marrying...

A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.

'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)

A poet struggles to get her work accepted.

A millgirl is loved by the owner's son and the socialist foreman, who incites a strike and burns the mill.

British propaganda piece warning against buying German goods after the war, summer 1918.